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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by lnjarroyo »

lotsofpulp wrote: post #172
lnjarroyo wrote: post #158

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Curiously similar to "Pix" launched by brazilian central bank about a year ago. A quick Google search will show you dozens and dozens of countries getting instant payment systems promoted by their own central banks during the last years. Really makes you wonder who could be behind such a "coincidence".

If there is any conspiracy, it would have to be how the hell did it take so long for all these societies to come up with an electronic payment utility.

Well, it's pretty simple, actually. Central banking is a monopoly, you don't need to be the best option if you're the only one. Curiously, all central banks start launching efficient payment systems as soon as crypto shows up.

Not really affirming any conspiracy here since I'm very uneducated at the subject, I just thinks it's suspiciously interesting to a point I can't ignore, almost as if all those central banks were coordinating as part of a larger goal.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by emodendroket »

Freak_NL wrote: post #178
emodendroket wrote: post #173

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I don't know if you were aware but PornHub had a massive scandal with the content people were uploading that led to them basically deleting the majority of user contributions altogether. So maybe not so easy for them either.

Wasn't that a copyright issue? People uploading stuff for which they didn't own the authorship rights? OnlyFans does not seem to have that problem at any significant scale at all, so why can't they figure out a way to handle payments for porn?

No, it was primarily about various forms of nonconsensual and underage content.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by _jal »

l33t2328 wrote: post #152
dweekly wrote: post #126

It sure sounds like this was forced on them by their payment processors, not that this was a voluntary move. https://twitter.com/danprimack/status/1428420774449266691?s=...

This is absolutely ridiculous. What if they decide people can no longer buy dildos or lube or condoms or guns or alcohol or meat on Fridays? There’s no law with respect to “payment neutrality”??

Remember this next time people start pushing going cashless.

Doing so means that a third party is involved in every transaction you make, and that someone else will always have veto power over your commercial transactions.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by ardit33 »

emodendroket wrote: post #162
l33t2328 wrote: post #152

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This is absolutely ridiculous. What if they decide people can no longer buy dildos or lube or condoms or guns or alcohol or meat on Fridays? There’s no law with respect to “payment neutrality”??

Why should there be? It seems absurd to MANDATE anyone participate in the sex trade. There are payment processors who specialize in adult content.

morality is relative.... next stop it is strip clubs, then hooters being banned?

Payment processors provide a utility. They should have the right not to process illegal transactions and illegal activities. But as long as the activity is legal, it shouldn't be up to them to police morality.

They should be treated like utilities. If we go down this path, the city's water and electric utilities can decide to shut down the new hooters, because it is obscene and against god (according to conservaties), or it uses women and is an oppressor (according to some liberals).

Utilities shouldn't be involved in morality policing.

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Post by sascha_sl »

pell wrote: post #185
emodendroket wrote: post #161

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Probably the reputational risk to them from being associated with porn is not worth whatever OnlyFans brings in.

Why would OnlyFans not simply move to another payment processor then? This all seems a bit strange.

It's not so easy. The obvious candidates all ban adult content, and the ones used by the porn industry are either owned by the same or take cuts that make the AppStore look reasonable.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by l33t2328 »

emodendroket wrote: post #162
l33t2328 wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is absolutely ridiculous. What if they decide people can no longer buy dildos or lube or condoms or guns or alcohol or meat on Fridays? There’s no law with respect to “payment neutrality”??

Why should there be? It seems absurd to MANDATE anyone participate in the sex trade. There are payment processors who specialize in adult content.

You know how US Dollars say “This note is legal tender for all debts” on them?

It seems to absurd to allow companies with an oligopoly on most of the transfer of those notes to pick and choose what sectors are appropriate for citizens to interact with financially.

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Post by spiderice »

alpaca128 wrote: post #62
BitwiseFool wrote: post #13

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I assume they will end up like Tumblr after it went Safe for Work. Still around but nowhere near as popular and a shell of its former self.

Not necessarily. Discord is a pretty popular platform for exclusive access to selected people, e.g. Patreon supporters. As long as OF allows this kind of link it might stay relevant.

Except they have the reputation of porn, but now they don't have the porn. I wouldn't go sign up for an OnlyFans account in order to follow a SFW creator, simply because the reputation OnlyFans has. However I would join their Discord or Patreon.

Now their in this weird uncanny valley of "adult content" combined with "no adult content". Seems hard to shake that image.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by Asooka »

Zababa wrote: post #32
jerf wrote: post #10

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They do have this problem: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17432801

Interesting. Does this means that there is a business to make companies like OnlyFan and Patreon for adult content and then dropping it once you get big, and start again?

Given that it keeps happening, I'd say yes.
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