Similar to the recent actions by Twitter, Google, Apple and Amazon; Visa and Mastercard are private companies and can do whatever they want.
Anyone who has an issue with what Visa/MC did must also take issue with the others.
Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk
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#12How do you ensure that the person performing sex work is being compensated for sex work, versus some form of exploitation (whether that's the platform or an individual exploiting)? A sex worker union [1] who can negotiate with distribution companies and platforms, lobby legislators and payment facilitators (who should not be prohibiting payments for legal business transactions), and ensure quality working conditions…
Same way you ensure any other person isn’t being exploited. Society provides resources allowing the person to have the opportunity to not be leveraged into exploitation as their only option.
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#13Can't they somehow verify themselves and then be allowed to upload anything they want[1]? I thought the problem was that anyone could make an account and upload whatever they wished like child pornography, hidden cams, etc. [1] As long as it is legal and it's their own stuff.
That's not the problem, as stated in the article. It's payments being cut off by card networks.
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#14> "There's not a lot you can do about it, which makes you feel really helpless. I have friends who are considering leaving the business as a whole, just because Pornhub was such a big source of income."
I would guess for at least some of the public, sex workers leaving the business would be seen as a feature rather than a bug.
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#16Moody doesn’t seem to care about the abuse or victims that is rampant in the industry, she just wants to get paid.
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#17It would really be ideal if some of these sex workers could get their own platform. Pornhub seems like it was frankly unresponsive on a lot of serious concerns until they were forced to deal with them by the panic articles that went around last month And frankly it seems to me like it's still trivial to go on there and find what seems to me to be a lot of content that has dubious consent or related issues. These perf…
OnlyFans allows them to sell their content directly (not the same as it's up to them to solve the discoverability problem)
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#18I don't know if I honestly care though. Their livelihood is to have sex on camera for money, it's not something I or many other people really value. COVID restrictions on movie theaters put a lot of actors / actresses livelihoods at risk and I don't care. They don't provide a lot of value past entertainment (for some).
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#19How do you ensure that the person performing sex work is being compensated for sex work, versus some form of exploitation (whether that's the platform or an individual exploiting)? A sex worker union [1] who can negotiate with distribution companies and platforms, lobby legislators and payment facilitators (who should not be prohibiting payments for legal business transactions), and ensure quality working conditions…
Same way you ensure any other person isn’t being exploited. Society provides resources allowing the person to have the opportunity to not be leveraged into exploitation as their only option.
Yeah, not so much. North American developed countries aren't shining examples of labor protection champions. I'd refer to parts of Europe [1] and New Zealand [2] on how to protect sex workers in a more substantial way.
[1] https://www.nswp.org/sites/nswp.org/files/Declaration_bookle...
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#20> "There's not a lot you can do about it, which makes you feel really helpless. I have friends who are considering leaving the business as a whole, just because Pornhub was such a big source of income." I would guess for at least some of the public, sex workers leaving the business would be seen as a feature rather than a bug.
Yes, me for example