EXPLOITATION ALERTS ON INSTAGRAM

It's time for Instagram to follow their own community guidelines and protect the community from accounts designed to harass and bully. Instagram has received many reports of harassment and has done nothing to disable accounts whose sole purpose is to harass and bully. Instagram has found community guidelines were not breaking any of their guidelines when in fact according to their own regulations, Instagram is literally not following their own guidelines. This is highly concerning and Instagram needs to take threats of violence, harassment and bullying seriously.
Instagram is also enabling known wildlife exploitation accounts onto their platform for the purpose of profit. These accounts use Instagram to increase their audience which in turn can help bring in more donations. However accounts with wildlife exploitation alerts associated with their Username should also have a verification on their Profile Page to indicate its an"Ethical" environment for animals and if their actions are not in line with true Conservationists than Instagram needs to remove these accounts until they stop promoting actions connected to wildlife exploitation.
Cub cuddling is linked to the canned hunting industry. Black Jaguar White Tiger continues to promote cub cuddling using high profile celebrities to endorse this known harmful activity. Instagram is not only allowing others to bully, harass and threaten violence, they're enabling wildlife exploitation accounts to continue. More accounts are promoting, and profiting from harmful activity involving wildlife and Instagram is not doing enough to protect the animals or the desensitized community who witness close interactions of humans with wildlife. Deaths and injuries have been associated with this type of encounter and Instagram needs to remove posts that encourage wildlife and human interaction.
National Geographic and Instagram created hashtags which alert the community of wildlife exploitation but Instagram is still allowing accounts to use their platform to profit at the expense of innocent animals.
Instagrams GUIDELINES.
In their own words...
"Instagram is not a place to support or praise terrorism organized crime, or hate groups"
"We remove content that contain credible threats or hate speech, content that targets private individuals to degrade them or shame them".
"We do generally allow stronger conversations around people who are featured in the news or have a large public audience do to their profession or chosen activities".
Now we know the guidelines, we demand that Instagram starts to follow their own guidelines to keep the community safer including the usage of wildlife.
We demand Instagram creates a more community friendly platform that follows their own guidelines and deactivates accounts associated with the current Exploitation Alerts.

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