The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
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#2It's incredible to me that a private business can discriminate so wantonly while also being fully supported by the FDIC.
Re: The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
#3It's incredible to me that a private business can discriminate so wantonly while also being fully supported by the FDIC.
Is it either a form of discrimination that doesn’t line up with any protected class, or a bona fide discrimination against areas that have a high chargeback rate?
I’m interested in how much the morals we don’t like line up with the cold stats we would follow.
Re: The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
#4It's incredible to me that a private business can discriminate so wantonly while also being fully supported by the FDIC.
They've been doing it with firearms manufacturers and retailers for a while.
Re: The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
#5It's incredible to me that a private business can discriminate so wantonly while also being fully supported by the FDIC.
It wasn’t that long ago that discrimination on the part of banks was required by the government.
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#6It's incredible to me that a private business can discriminate so wantonly while also being fully supported by the FDIC.
Right? It’s the old, they’re a private enterprise, they can kick you off their platform if they want to (AWS, GoDaddy, for example, or even YouTube).
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#7Of course people skipped right over this to make their tired political points about Republicans hating women
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#8The centralized financial system is a weak point, and those in power are more than happy to utilize it ala Operation Choke Point.[0]
Re: The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
#9> for these corporations this is not a matter of free expression, as it ought to be, but one of morality
Is it really true that banks block transactions related to sex work because they are morally against it? Last time I checked banks just want to make money. This is a genuine question by the way.
> But just a few weeks in, Twitch shut it down after a change of policy that included, among other things, a ban on visible nipples for those who “present as women”. At a time when societal views around gender and sexuality are in many ways opening up, restrictions on sexual expression [...] feel positively archaic and seem to demonstrate that [...] there remain highly unaccountable powers making decisions about how we express something so utterly natural and human.
Although I fully support the free the nipple movement, I can absolutely understand that a streaming platform wants to ban nudity / sexual content. Sure, sex is natural and normal, but compared to other human behaviour it is still in a league of its own.
Re: The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks
#10So do I have to be THAT guy?
Fine.
Crypto solves this issue...