Why Chelsea Handler Can Post Nudes on Twitter But Not Instagram
Chelsea Handler is causing a stir over nudity on social media, quitting Instagram Friday after the service deleted a topless picture of herself that she posted Thursday. Handler later reposted the image on Twitter, where it remains live, saying Friday that "You can now find my dogs and my breasts on Twitter only where my followers have the right to choose.", Instagram made similar headlines earlier this year after it censored photos of Scout Willis, daughter of Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, who posted topless photos as part of the ongoing "free the nipple" campaign. Facebook, which owns Instagram, lifted its nipple ban in photos of breastfeeding mothers earlier this year after months of debate over mastectomy, breastfeeding and other types of nudity. Why can Handler post nudes on Twitter but not Instagram? It all boils down to differences in the apps' rules. Instagram disallows "nudity and mature content.", And here are Twitter's terms, which don't prohibit nudity, but ask that users who post "sensitive content" mark their accounts appropriately. Interestingly, Instagram explicitly frames its stricter rules as an effort to keep its 12+ age rating in Apple's App Store  but Twitter, with its more lenient rules, is rated 4+. This isn't the first example of app nudity rules making little sense the subject also came up a few years back when a publisher of adult content wanted to get nudie mags on Apple's iPad. Apple's rules, for whatever they're worth, have this to say, The more you know!