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"Suspended" aka they're waiting for all of this to blow over.

I think it's more likely that the banks and Mastercard that were pulling service to them freaked out about being trending topics for three days and agreed to reinstate everything.

I have to think there must also be some requirement that OnlyFans work harder to prevent underage porn as well. Half the news I heard about this mentioned how much of it was on there.

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"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.

Funny.

Onlyfans banning adult content is like Nike banning tennis shoes.

We're a loafer company now!

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It's extraordinary that payment processors don't have any regulations that force them to serve businesses in a neutral fashion. It's weird that they're allowed to play morality police with the Internet even though they have no formal governmental role as such. You'd think that once the government decides what is and isn't acceptable, the processors would follow that lead. But instead they go a different, more restric…

There is lobbying/regulatory/activist pressure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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I guess you can expect companies to start using the defence of many politicians, just create as much noise and kick up as much dirt as possible distracting from whatever the main issue is (in this case child porn on your platform [1]).

They were never going to ban adult content were they. Cynical in the extreme.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-58255865

EDIT: I’ve updated this comment with a BBC investigation that suggests they had quite lax child porn policies. Do any of the down-voters really believe OnlyFans were genuine about removing all adult content?

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"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.

I suppose? But then again it's hard to know what was going on behind the scenes. Did the CEO just save the company from their vendors bankrupting them in a daring display of finger pointing brinkmanship?
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