Met Meta Rules are wrong to ban the Instagram account of the porn star

Colombia’s highest court has ruled that Meta violates the right to a porn star to freedom of expression when deleting her Instagram account.

The Constitutional Court of the Southern American Nation said on Friday that the technology company had removed the account of Esperanza Gomez “without clear and transparent justification” and without offering such attitude to other similar accounts.

The 45-year-old, whose account had more than five million followers, is one of the most famous adult actresses in Colombia.

Meta is arguing in the case that she has violated his nudity rules. The company, which also owns Facebook and WhatsApp, does not respond immediately to the solution.

G -ja Gomez claims that the closure of her account has influenced her ability to work and has been influenced by her pornographic work outside the platform. She also claims that Meta did not follow a proper process.

In its decision, the court stated that although it recognized the need for the social media platform to measure content, it did not justify the closure of the porn star “without a clear and transparent excuse”.

He also discovered that Meta “applies its nudity and sexual services policies inconsistently”, with other accounts of similar content remaining active.

The court stated that social media publications were protected under the Colombia Constitution and should only be restricted in a proportional manner when needed.

It ordered META to “review and adjust the conditions of use and policy for using Instagram so that users are clearly aware of the mechanisms of dispute moderate decisions” and “more precisely define” its rules for implicit sexual content.

If social media platforms use offline activities as a content criterion, they must clearly point them, the court said.

The court did not specify sanctions for non-compliance or whether Mrs. Gomez would receive compensation.

BBC contacted META for comment.

It is not the first time a court in South America requires a social network to change its policies.

The Supreme Court of Brazil has recently ruled that social media is directly responsible for illegal content, including hate speech, and must act immediately to remove it and report its distribution.

This decision was followed by a judge ordering the suspension of dozens of X accounts for the alleged distribution of misinformation.

This led to the fact that the social media platform was briefly banned in Brazil before it began to follow the decision and pay a $ 5.1 fine ($ 3.8 million).