Your experience sucks but it's too simplistic to consider this malice/evil. I think none of us fully understand the extreme levels of abuse a service like Inst

Your experience sucks but it's too simplistic to consider this malice/evil. I think none of us fully understand the extreme levels of abuse a service like Insta (and several other services) have to deal with. It's abuse at scale and ever-changing, hence an endless cat and mouse game where non-transparent heuristics create false positives. By the way, your method of verification (holding up a sign) is also common at porn sites. That's what my friend told me anyway.