Although not an onlyfans fan, these new Puritan times are dangerous for everything the West supposedly stands for.
The bankers who allegedly have laundered drug money and goodness knows who elses dirty money, now seem to have an issue with those who use the platform safely and responsibly (and all the rest of the OF users) on that platform.
OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
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#12if they are smart they'll move to crypto and hopefully start a movement away from these centralized payment processors. Stuff like this might finally be what causes mainstream adoption
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#13"Suspended" aka they're waiting for all of this to blow over.
IMO think the only worse PR nightmare than banning adult content on your adult content platform is reversing your reversal on that ban.
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#14Wonder if this was all a publicity stunt to put pressure on their payment processors.
The tweet from their official account[1] reads:
Thank you to everyone for making your voices heard.
We have secured assurances necessary to support our diverse creator community and have suspended the planned October 1 policy change.
OnlyFans stands for inclusion and we will continue to provide a home for all creators.
This seems to match your theory.
[1]: https://twitter.com/OnlyFans/status/1430499277302816773
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#15Wonder if this was all a publicity stunt to put pressure on their payment processors.
If so, I think that's a good thing. This should bring attention to payment processors' ability to effectively kill any type of business they don't agree with. I'm not sure what the solution is. Should banks be forced to behave as a common carrier? Or do we want private companies to be able to ban the public from purchasing things like pornography and firearms by stopping adults from completing legal transactions?
Let's turn the question around instead: why shouldn't banks be forced to behave as common carriers, at least when it comes to things like processing payments, providing checking accounts, and other such basic services? What good does it do to start a business, only to be told by the banking industry that you can't open a bank account for your perfectly legal business?
I'm not sure if I'd include lending in "basic services." That seems a bit more debatable to me.
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#16"Suspended" aka they're waiting for all of this to blow over.
Maybe? The timeline suggests that they got some sort of assurance from banks they work with, they will not not be bothered. Founder just blamed banks for the whole thing the other day.
https://people.com/human-interest/onlyfans-founder-says-bank...
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#17Wonder if this was all a publicity stunt to put pressure on their payment processors.
Given that people predictably started leaving the platform, I doubt it. There isn't a social network or content discoverability aspect to the service, so hopping to somewhere else is easy. And people will remain wary of OnlyFans since they could try to restrict content again since they've already shown from the original announcement that they don't really care about supporting NSFW content creators
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#18aka "Our valuation is dropping like a rock"
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#19So it was a publicity stunt after all.
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#20"Suspended" aka they're waiting for all of this to blow over.
This is never going to blow over. It is as if YouTube had a plan to disable video uploads.