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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by seph-reed »

spiderice wrote: post #199
alpaca128 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> simply because the reputation OnlyFans has

Lol. Watching a musician on OF and your friend looks over your shoulder.

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Post by cma »

o_m wrote: post #195
TekMol wrote: post #116

mounting pressure from banking partners and payment providers HN is often sceptical about use cases for crypto beyond speculation. This looks like one.

What is stopping MasterCard and Visa from banning Coinbase and others if this happens

Does coinbase even take credit cards?

https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/getting-started/add-a-...

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Post by Redoubts »

jwond wrote: post #221

It seems a lot of people in this post are opposed to payment processors pressuring OnlyFans to do this. When Google, Apple, Amazon, et al. simultaneously took actions that resulted in the shutdown of Gab it seemed a lot of people supported it. Now they could very well be completely disjoint groups, but I’d be interested if anyone who opposes the payment processors pressuring OnlyFans but supported the actions taken a…

> I’d be interested if anyone who opposes the payment processors pressuring OnlyFans but supported the actions taken against Gab could explain how they reconcile the two positions.

I think most people would reconcile them fairly easily. Do you think there’s a surprising answer to be had here?

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Post by xur17 »

bcheung wrote: post #245
_jal wrote: post #194

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Crypto will eventually democratize business transactions but it will take some time and it will not be without increased fraud.

What type of fraud? It seems to me that it would make it basically impossible to defraud a merchant with a stolen payment method (much like cash). Do you mean merchants defrauding their customers?

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Post by evol262 »

jwond wrote: post #221

It seems a lot of people in this post are opposed to payment processors pressuring OnlyFans to do this. When Google, Apple, Amazon, et al. simultaneously took actions that resulted in the shutdown of Gab it seemed a lot of people supported it. Now they could very well be completely disjoint groups, but I’d be interested if anyone who opposes the payment processors pressuring OnlyFans but supported the actions taken a…

One provided a shelter for incitement to violence, culminating in an attack on the US Capitol.

The other one is naked people.

It's the difference between suing someone because they yelled "fire!" in a crowded adult theatre and being an actor on the stage of that theatre.

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Post by throwawaysea »

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=...

We really need an alternative to big payment processors like Visa, Mastercard, Paypal, Stripe, etc. Moving money around is so fundamental to basic living that it shouldn't be solely possible through duopolies or oligopolies, and it is morally and ethically unacceptable that these companies seek to impost their own morals and politics upon others who are voluntarily transacting with each other. We've known this was a problem for a LONG time now, going back to when the credit card companies colluded to institute a payment blockade against Wikileaks over 10 years ago (https://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2010/12/07/visa-m...). I'm disappointed we aren't in a better place yet. We need renewed antitrust legislation to take control of big tech and payment processors. They are as influential as governments, and cannot be allowed to discriminate, just like your water utility cannot discriminate against you based on your personal life or politics.

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Post by bcheung »

cblconfederate wrote: post #188
toomuchtodo wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh god I can’t believe I’m going to say this. Crypto/Bitcoin, in keeping with the relationship the Internet and adult content have. Congrats Coinbase, Venmo, and others enabling censorship resistant crypto payments on your revenue bump.

And as always, porn leads the way

Having worked as an adult programmer, they are really far behind technology trends. You're lucky if they use version control and staging servers.

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Post by rejectedandsad »

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=...

The fact that OF is not all in on crypto payments is a massive indictment of crypto as a payment mechanism.
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