Demand the government to make Meta accountable for destroying the livelihoods of marginalised communities.

Riot Party and Sexquisite Events are leading this campaign after being erased by Meta, repeatedly. Jointly, we provide over 1000 paid freelance creative jobs for queer people, sex workers, and POC per year. We create creative opportunities in queer nightlife, for:  performers, DJS, welfare, artists, stage managers, traders and more.

We sadly are not an isolated incident, over the last year, Meta have wrongfully removed over 60+ accounts in the UK as recorded by Repro Uncensored, plus many more that go undocumented.

Meta have made a reliance in society on the use of their platform. For community, connection and also for business. Removing access to our online audience has a severe impact on physical and mental health, income, and most importantly - sex workers are often targeted and their means to access other forms of work outside sex work, are blocked. Society tells us to do another job, and then blocks us from accessing other forms of work. 

We have been documenting the stories and impact over the past year, as led by *Maedb Joy who works extremely closely with the sex work community through both Riot and Sexquisite. - (*Maedb was also deplatformed.)

We work primarily with the sex worker-artist community, and many of us navigate dual identities. We are artists, performers, writers, facilitators and events organisers who all happen to have lived experience of sex work.

Through various case studies we have documented, and recorded the impact of deletion to be the following:

• Many people reported being pushed into in person full service sex work following deletion despite not wanting to due to loss of income 
• Some people reported doing full service sex work to raise money to pay hackers to get their accounts reinstated 
• One member of our community reported becoming physically disabled and their speech impaired due to the stress of losing their account and main source of income (social media influencer / sex education coach / onlyfans)
• Multiple people reported feeling suicidal 
• One person explained how they lost their Instagram when trying to leave an abusive relationship and were completely cut off from all of their community 
• All participants reported that they experienced a severe negative impact to their income 
• One member of our community who is a mother of multiple children, reported bailiffs at her house and was forced to downsize her house due to loss of income

Meta's actions do not just erase accounts;  they erase a whole community and dismantle livelihoods. Yet, there is no clear pathway to address wrongful deletions, no transparency, and no direct contacts to resolve. 

We demand action. We call upon the government to implement regulations that hold Meta accountable for unjust account deletions and to establish a transparent, accessible process for affected communities to seek reinstatement. With a clear system in place and a dedicated point of contact at Meta, wrongful deletions could be effectively addressed, mitigating the erasure of communities.

Supporting this campaign means standing for the protection of marginalised voices. Join us in urging the government to take action, sign this petition to ensure Meta's actions align with fairness and justice for all.