When are we going to see a Medium or Substack for pornographic content? Even better an opensource LAMP or MEAN stack to host your own adult entertainment site?
OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
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#32I 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 s…
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#33It'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…
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#34aka "Our valuation is dropping like a rock"
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#35It'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…
The only way out of that would be blanket government insurance for payment processors, but that would essentially be a massive subsidy and open to rampant abuses.
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#36I knew it was a thing, I knew of the memes, but to see both sides in arms over a company vs branding, creating their own website and content - and vanity domain as well.
People really do just want a one click solution for creating adult content, and consuming adult content.
And the memes, I think they're pretty toxic, 4chan, incel, reddit, twitter memes - I never knew there was that much angst.
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#37"Suspended" aka they're waiting for all of this to blow over.
Or they got some guarantees from banks that they won't get banned.
Their options are to die like tumbler or fight a bit. Moving away from traditional payment processors might cause problems for them as well.
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#38Isn't "OnlyFans without sexual content" basically Patreon?
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#39When are we going to see a Medium or Substack for pornographic content? Even better an opensource LAMP or MEAN stack to host your own adult entertainment site?
The hard part is the banking and payments side of things. That's where a new entrant would be useful (but unfortunately also ~impossible in the US).
Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban
#40I 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 s…