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Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by pc86 »

andy_ppp wrote: post #27

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 s…

What evidence do you have that there was that sort of content on the platform?

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by the-dude »

LeftHandPath wrote: post #5
yeldarb wrote: post #2

Wonder 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?

Dutch banks terminated accounts of Corona-critics / anti-vax'ers / conspiracy nuts ( you choose how to call them ).

I wonder if climate change critics are next.

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by purple_ferret »

adriancr wrote: post #37
d3nj4l wrote: post #4

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

They are probably looking for alternative payment methods. (coinbase payment processor and accept cryptocurrencies?) 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.

>(coinbase payment processor and accept cryptocurrencies?)

https://www.coinbase.com/legal/prohibited

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by TheMagicHorsey »

simonh wrote: post #35
TheMagicHorsey wrote: post #9

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…

I don't see how common carrier type regulation in the financial services industry could work. You're essentially forcing people to lend out or risk their money with anyone who asks regardless of their financial status or the risk profile of their business. Surely choosing what business risks you are willing to take must be some sort of right? The only way out of that would be blanket government insurance for payment…

This is a good point. So there's more fraud associated with OnlyFans and the like?

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by 63 »

I'm curious how much this may have impacted their users regardless. I imagine that a lot of people learned that relying on a single platform is dangerous and how important it is to diversify your online profile. I don't think people will trust Onlyfans anymore.

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by sct202 »

dougmwne wrote: post #29
spcebar wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Sometimes you just have to threaten to blow the whole business up before anyone goes to bat for you behind the scenes.

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by WJW »

mothsonasloth wrote: post #26

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?

Surely both LAMP and MEAN stacks are already perfectly capable of hosting pornography? It's not as if the bits are different from other types of image.
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