She’s been using Google Drive for most of the last five and a half years she’s worked as a performer full-time, but started using it more heavily for work in the last three years. “I heard randomly that someone got one piece of their adult content flagged, that was stored on Google Drive,” adult performer Melody Kush told me in Twitter direct messages. According to Google, Drive uses a combination of automated systems and manual review to decide what’s in violation. Additionally, we do not allow content that drives traffic to commercial pornography.” Writing about porn and sex is permitted, the policy states, as long as it’s not accompanied by sexually explicit images or videos. When I asked about sexual content being blocked on Drive, a spokesperson for Google directed me to the Drive policy page-specifically the section on sexually explicit material, which says, “Do not publish sexually explicit or pornographic images or videos…. They said that Google Drive no longer seemed sex-trade friendly, detailing error messages and sharing cloud storage alternatives with each other. The porn performers I talked to started sounding the alarm on Twitter last week.

In some cases, the adult content is disappearing from Drive without warning or explanation. They also said they can't a share that content with other accounts or send to clients. Six porn performers I talked to and more on social media said that they suddenly can't download adult content they keep on Google Drive.

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