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OnlyFans to Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October

OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business.

Bloomberg.com

Well, this sucks.

All I’m gonna say is that for the past year, Onlyfans has been weird about not just content but even compensation of its creators. Rumors have been flying for a while, but with this and the unveiling of a SFW app, I think now is a good time to look for alternatives.

I would also recommend listening to sex workers and internet activists about who these bans target and how tied it is to policing. Hacking Hustling has a great paper detailing this with not just sex work but also social media website censorship of Black Lives Matter movements: https://hackinghustling.org/posting-into-the-void-content-moderation/

Technology has historically been used by the U.S. Government to repress and silence movement-building efforts, and magnify systems of oppression and violence that criminalize and police communities and how they support themselves. With bills like the EARN IT Act, PACT Act, and Lawful Access to Encrypted Data Act on the horizon as well as the US Agency for Global Media’s hostile takeover of the Open Technology Fund, we believe that now is the time to better understand the impact of content moderation on human rights and movement work. As the pandemic necessitates more online interactions and decreased access to public spaces, we are moving into an ecosystem of increased government-sanctioned surveillance and censorship. We need to question tech’s primary and flawed solution to mitigating liability—content moderation—and the role it plays in our lives, our communities and our organizing.

Emerging platforms, like Patreon, Instagram, and OnlyFans, are more than happy to embrace and build their brands on the backs of sex workers.

Then, the INSTANT they become profitable, these platforms turn on and ban the very people who made them profitable in the first place.

It’s a tale as old as time, it’s utterly predictable, and it’s so disappointing.

Sex work is work.
Sex workers are workers.
Sex workers deserve to be paid for their work.

So good luck, OnlyFans. I hope you fail and your executives lose everything.

marcchurch:

(Source: wilwheaton)