The Sterilisation of Social Media!

Hiya, I use social media to promote my books, website and stories. Until this week, Pinterest were my favourite and pretty liberal, provided there wasn't too much nipple on view. Until, to my horror, I found myself unable to open my pins (posts). I contacted Support who turned out to be a Chat Bot and asked why. It told me this was Pinterest's new under-16 protection policy. I told the Bot, I agreed with preventing under-16's from seeing unsuitable material which is why my website has age gates (filters to prevent minors accessing), why couldn't Pinterest do the same? Oh and why were celebs still allowed to post semi-nudes? The Bot replied that it was unable to answer me. FB & have both castigated, censured, me for using words like "sensual". Have any other authors noticed the enforced sterilisation of social media?

This has been going on forever. I used to run a social network for women on the Ning platform back in 2007, and they changed their ToS content restrictions to ban nudity, so my site folded. Then I was on a Wiccan social site that kicked me off for sexual content that merely suggested nudity. I now run a privately owned girls-only social network (SweetWhores.org) that screens out males and underage, but we can post any content we wish, since we don't have to please advertisers, or government regulators.

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I now run a privately owned girls-only social network (SweetWhores.org) that screens out males and underage, but we can post any content we wish, since we don't have to please advertisers, or government regulators.

Good plan! 👍😀

I think that may be the best way to go for more specialized groups or ones that might face censorship on the big sites. There's plenty of options out there for hosting a group other than big social media. Just need to find one that suits your requirements and skill level.