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Re: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

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The world really needs an alternative to these tweet serials. They're extremely annoying to read.

Blogs exist, but due to network effect any given blog post is less likely to be auto-surfaced by an algorithm into people's field of vision than a stream of dozens of individual Twitter posts.

Re: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

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This might be a good time to discuss whether payment processors should have the ability to restrict legal trades (CP is a few bad apples). This applies to things like sex work and porn but also censorship of political views. I think it's stupid to pay for porn when there's so much available for free but who am I to judge what people do with their money and body as long as it's consensual adults? Plus if we are to enj…

There is no room for discussion. Your civil liberties are being eroded with this measure.

Re: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

#25

The world really needs an alternative to these tweet serials. They're extremely annoying to read.

Part of the advantage to tweet threads like this is that other users can reply directly to any one of the n tweets in the thread, rather than commenting on the thread as a whole.

Agreed that it can be clunky to read depending on the platform, but there's a reason lots of prominent personalities and bloggers still use them.

Re: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

#26

I believe his argumentation that this is a push by Christian organizations might be correct, but I believe he's deluded in that he appears to think that he's speaking for the majority. "65% of adults in the United States identified themselves as Christians."

Most Christians I know are against legislating morality because that could result in the government being involved in the church.

Re: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

#28

"So why the rule changes? Because last December the New York Times published an opinion piece by Nick Kristof caller “The Children of Pornhub” that accused the site and its parent company of profiting off revenge porn, child porn and sex trafficking....which, to be clear, they kinda were." Kinda, huh? Of course the more important point, according the thread's author, is that: "Kristof’s story might have been correct…

My right-wing friends would be very surprised to learn that the New York Times and Nick Kristof now represent them.

Re: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

#29
Seen this thread going around, but it seems like it skips over the important bit.

> So why the rule changes? Because last December the New York Times published an opinion piece by Nick Kristof caller “The Children of Pornhub” that accused the site and its parent company of profiting off revenge porn, child porn and sex trafficking.

How do you get from 'opinion piece in a newspaper' to 'gigantic transnational financial infrastructure company changes its rules'? In my experience, huge companies do not make changes like this purely on the basis of newspaper columns.

Was there legal advice? Political pressure? Regulatory pressure? All of those would be much more material than a piece in a newspaper.

Re: A lot of people are getting the OnlyFans story wrong

#30

Why isn’t it viable to just accept Visa, if only MasterCard has new rules? Does not seem to justify scrapping the entire business.

Most news sites speculate that Visa is likely to follow. OF probably has industry connections that are giving them a heads up.

It's in Visa's PR interest for these high visibility events (like OF's ToS Change) to happen before Visa announces their ToS changes.

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