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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by throwaway0a5e »

obviouslynotme wrote: post #371
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=...

You would think that it would be profitable enough for them to become their own bank and processor if no one else would. This right here tells me they knew they couldn't. Why? Who is telling them no? How can we live in a place where LEGAL businesses are purposefully excluded from the market? I think they should start taking Bitcoin or Monero. Fuck MasterCard and whoever dictates what they do. If you are going to be f…

>You would think that it would be profitable enough for them to become their own bank and processor if no one else wou

Or just buy a bank. Surely they could have raised the capital.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by zdragnar »

tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #330
yholio wrote: post #279

I can understand the business reasons for cleaning up the OnlyFans brand. But I can't, for the life of me, understand why they are killing a cash cow instead of spining it off into a side business. Clone the full experience on a dedicated site, OnlyFantasy.com, duplicate the whole userbase, and give a simple warning that I can find my favorite stars on another site. In time, the user bases will diverge naturally depe…

> Yes, the payment processors will bark at the porn site. Move to a more expensive processor for that site only, pay 5%, 10% fee, it doesn't really matter, it's free money. If PH is having trouble processing any form of credit card, a smaller company will have no chance at all. We're seeing a sterilization of legitimate porn on the internet, done by legitimate tax paying western companies. It'll be left to whoever ca…

Free speech, separation of church and state has nothing to do with it. Not wanting to be associated with rape, child and revenge porn (variations on non-consent) is all it is.

User submitted content is so much harder to verify facts about (consent in particular) and as long as the user submitted content is sexual in nature, it is legal plutonium.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by jjulius »

aj3 wrote: post #372
jjulius wrote: post #296

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet they all stopped processing payments for PornHub. Please cite a source(s) for your claim, re: "banks can't block shit"

PH was blocked by payment processors (Visa and Mastercard): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/10/pornhub-mast... Parent is making distinction between credit cards and banks.

Fair point, though I'd still like to see a source, re: banks not being allowed to "block shit".

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by neurostimulant »

yholio wrote: post #279

I can understand the business reasons for cleaning up the OnlyFans brand. But I can't, for the life of me, understand why they are killing a cash cow instead of spining it off into a side business. Clone the full experience on a dedicated site, OnlyFantasy.com, duplicate the whole userbase, and give a simple warning that I can find my favorite stars on another site. In time, the user bases will diverge naturally depe…

Probably impossible as someone mentioned it might be due to FOSTA-SESTA which is intended to curb online sex work, which is arguably what onlyfans currently enabled right now. They probably determined it's too risky to continue.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by zz865 »

rejectedandsad wrote: post #270
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.

It also highlights the lack of anonymity with crypto - everyone gets to see what you spend money on.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by toast0 »

mortehu wrote: post #325
serverholic wrote: post #284

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or that crypto is only 12 years old which is really fucking young for a currency.

That's not young at all. How much trouble did people have accepting Euro in 2011?

A government mandate certainly helps a currency develop.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by young_unixer »

rejectedandsad wrote: post #270
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.

Huh? Many services on the Internet accept crypto, Namecheap is a good example.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by theshrike79 »

tofuahdude wrote: post #309
spoonjim wrote: post #303

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Think “show your titties,” not “suck a dick.”

Man, I would hate to be the judge of "nude but not sexually explicit" content

Good old "I know it when I see it"

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by bserge »

ozim wrote: post #170
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”??

That is called democracy and yes there are a lot of things that are not sold. General public agrees that explicit material is bad. Right now we have in Poland shops closed each Sunday - it is annoying for me. Selling alcohol in Norway is heavily restricted and I see more and more restrictions on alcohol sales in Poland. Explicit material is tied a lot to money laundering, there is also a lot of scams tied to it and l…

And when the general public agrees cash is bad? After all you can buy anything with digital methods nowadays. Cash is only for criminals.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by young_unixer »

zz865 wrote: post #385
rejectedandsad wrote: post #270

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It also highlights the lack of anonymity with crypto - everyone gets to see what you spend money on.

Not if you use Monero.

https://www.getmonero.org/get-started/what-is-monero/

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