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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by ryanlol »

throwaway5752 wrote: post #534
paxys wrote: post #480

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A huge chunk of the planet is forced into jobs they don't like to provide for themselves and their families. What's so "dignifying" about a job getting humiliated by entitled customers in retail or waitressing for minimum wage or breaking your body doing hard manual labor? Religious morality is the only reason a much more safe, comfortable and lucrative option like OnlyFans is banned.

I think you should accept some people think of it differently. And let's be frank here. OF is probably a viable financial opportunity - on average - for a small number of more attractive that normal people, and it's probably weighted towards younger women. I'd love to have hard data to present to you, but I can't find it. I have literally zero problem with people who want to use OF to support themselves. However, let…

> I think you should accept some people think of it differently

But why? Because their parents told them so?

Is there some fundamental reason to see this differently? Some cultures accept murder too, should we accept that some people think of it differently? I say fuck those people.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by fouric »

bpicolo wrote: post #215
NationalPark wrote: post #92

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Stripe's hands are tied - they need financial services to operate and banks (and CC processors) are the ones pushing down these puritanical values.

Could be wrong, but I think it's less puritanical, and more that transactions with these types of vendors are overwhelmingly fraudulent and charged-back. It's a big liability for the processors.

It could also be because, as suggested in another comment[1], banks are getting regulated in a way that the payment processors simply don't want to deal with.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28238003

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by TchoBeer »

taylodl wrote: post #257

Sadly I know girls who are using OnlyFans to keep a roof over their heads and stay out of abusive relationships. Whether we like what they're doing to make money OnlyFans was providing them a much-needed revenue stream. Now that's being taken away from them by the morality police who won't be affected by the consequences of their own decisions.

This seems like an unecessarily cynical take. Do you think it's a good thing that people are forced to sell their bodies to survive? Obvious to me that regardless of whether or not onlyfans shuts down, we should have social safety nets so that these people aren't forced to do that.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by [deleted] »

goldcd wrote: post #76

One of the current owners is the guy behind myfreecams - he knows how to run a porn site (and get cards to work on it). This split - and it's going to be a split (as they'd be insane to let that much porn money walk) is just to leave behind a nice investable onlyfans to rival patreon.

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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by fksadfji12 »

moonchrome wrote: post #422
dvdkon wrote: post #413

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The properties of certain cryptocurrencies that make them good for illegal transactions also make them good for pornography and other "not illegal but touchy" areas.

Not really - these are high volume low value transactions and need to be low friction. Money laundering and similar illegal transactions are fine with the opposite.

meet the lightning network

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Post by watwut »

throwaway0a5e wrote: post #377
tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #330

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> Yes, the payment processors will bark at the porn site. Move to a more expensive processor for that site only, pay 5%, 10% fee, it doesn't really matter, it's free money. If PH is having trouble processing any form of credit card, a smaller company will have no chance at all. We're seeing a sterilization of legitimate porn on the internet, done by legitimate tax paying western companies. It'll be left to whoever ca…

>We're seeing a sterilization of legitimate porn on the internet, done by legitimate tax paying western companies. It'll be left to whoever can operate beyond those constraints, Why wouldn't it just revert back to how it was before all the amateur stuff got monetized over the past 5yr or so.

The thing is, only fans is significantly safer then street prostitution. As in, some people are getting back into serious risk.

Kind of like when they closed backpage. It went back - to situation I which sex seller risk more.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by andy_ppp »

Does anyone else here feel the Onlyfans phenomenon is just exploiting sad lonely men who’d be better off leaving the house, doing some exercise and trying to eat healthier and build their IRL social networks?

This whole cam-girls making a fortune this way seems somehow more dishonest than normal porn to me, maybe because it’s about these guys (who can never have relationships with these women) building a personal and intimate relationship as one of her “fans”. I almost see this as being like gambling where people need to acknowledge maybe how powerful sex is and being a technology that should be regulated similarly.

I wonder if nobody calls out this exploitation because society keeps suggesting that all men are privileged, which is definitely not true for at least 60% of the male population.

Anyway I’ll probably get downvoted for this but these double standards have been irritating me for a while :-)

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by paxys »

throwaway5752 wrote: post #534
paxys wrote: post #480

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A huge chunk of the planet is forced into jobs they don't like to provide for themselves and their families. What's so "dignifying" about a job getting humiliated by entitled customers in retail or waitressing for minimum wage or breaking your body doing hard manual labor? Religious morality is the only reason a much more safe, comfortable and lucrative option like OnlyFans is banned.

I think you should accept some people think of it differently. And let's be frank here. OF is probably a viable financial opportunity - on average - for a small number of more attractive that normal people, and it's probably weighted towards younger women. I'd love to have hard data to present to you, but I can't find it. I have literally zero problem with people who want to use OF to support themselves. However, let…

I am completely fine with people having their own views on this issue and not participating in it if they don't like it, blocking it on their computers or whatever else. The problem is these views being imposed upon the greater population for no reason.

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Post by teh_infallible »

young_unixer wrote: post #390
zz865 wrote: post #385

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It also highlights the lack of anonymity with crypto - everyone gets to see what you spend money on.

Not if you use Monero. https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/what-is-monero/

I love Monero, but I think it is more intimidating for no-coiners than bitcoin.

You can’t buy it on Coinbase or many other exchanges, and the wallets are not as polished as the btc wallets I have used.

So if you’re trying to get your fans to pay you in XMR, you would be creating a lot of friction for them.

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