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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by JohnBooty »

emodendroket wrote: post #161
jpeter wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why should payment processors force them to. They will make less money

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

Not a reputation thing, unless that's changed lately. You can use credit cards for all kinds of porn and various shady things, they don't care.

For decades, the specific issue was with the huge chargeback/fraud rates associated with online porn.

- People paying for porn with stolen cards

- Or, more frequently, people disputing the charges when their wives see the credit card statements and get mad, so they claim the card was stolen etc.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by twirlock »

taylodl wrote: post #257

Sadly I know girls who are using OnlyFans to keep a roof over their heads and stay out of abusive relationships. Whether we like what they're doing to make money OnlyFans was providing them a much-needed revenue stream. Now that's being taken away from them by the morality police who won't be affected by the consequences of their own decisions.

I live alone, have no girlfriend, and want one. Hi.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by miohtama »

robbrown451 wrote: post #509
zdragnar wrote: post #382

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I don't see how a payment processor is "being associated" with the content. Deciding whether that sort of thing is happening really shouldn't be their purview.

Because Exodus Cry campaigned for it

https://mobile.twitter.com/GustavoTurnerX/status/14284408173...

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by Barrin92 »

Absolutely terrible that companies feel the need to drop sex workers, many of whom depend on the platform to make a living.

Don't even blame onlyfans because it's the demands of banks and VCs in this case and society at large who still treat sex workers like some kind of caste of undesirables they don't want to be associated with.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by redisman »

moonchrome wrote: post #340
perardi wrote: post #207

Wow, you spend years thinking crypto is convoluted nonsense…and then something comes along that impacts a lot of your friends, and you start to change your mind. I have a fair number† of friends and acquaintances who have OnlyFans. Some for side income, some for a substantial portion of their livelihood. And to see that get taken away because the payment processors want them to fall in line…I guess I’m on the crypto…

If crypto was actually a viable alternative they wouldn't be doing this. I'm not against the promises of crypto - but the tech so far has failed to deliver anything but a platform to streamline illegal activity, asset speculation bubbles and a whole bunch of wasted energy/hardware along with reliving the problems people had historically with bank fraud in free banking and the likes (banks printing their own notes wit…

There are many cryptos that would be perfectly viable for payments here. XLM, USDC, Polygon for example. I think the investors told them that it’s too niche and they’d rather have credit card payments for whatever remains after the policy change.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by miohtama »

thinkingkong wrote: post #357
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…

Stripe is their payment processor and they're _full aware_ of what Onlyfans' content mostly is.

MasterCard calls the shot and they were drive into this by Exodus Cry campaign https://mobile.twitter.com/GustavoTurnerX/status/14284408173...

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by arebop »

Tenoke wrote: post #429
smt88 wrote: post #359

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if OF could accept crypto, they'd still need an off-ramp back into fiat. They can't operate only on crypto, even just stablecoins, which is itself the indictment of crypto.

There's plenty of services for that - e.g. Coinbase has an enterprise one for that use case.

nope, not for adult content/services https://commerce.coinbase.com/legal/terms-of-service-2021-08...

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by SlowRobotAhead »

digitcatphd wrote: post #167

"The company will prohibit users from posting any sexually explicit conduct, starting in October. Creators will still be allowed to post nude photos and videos" Makes sense

> Makes sense

Does it?

Nude is ok, but sexual isn’t? What if I find nude sexual, what if I find sexual separate from nudity? Why business is it of payment processors to say what is OK when it comes to sexuality?

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by joe_the_user »

skrtskrt wrote: post #94

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy. I say greater because OnlyFans is/was still on a massive upswing whereas Tumblr was 10 years past its peak already when the nails went in the coffin. Edit: I understand this is supposedly not their choice.

This is going to be corporate suicide on a greater scale than Tumblr's policy.

Just a note that Tumblr's anti-porn policy has been fairly leaky and users basically adapted to it. After a decline, the site now hosts nearly as much porn as previously.

The problem is that onlyfans has a much bigger spotlight on it. So yeah, one wonders how people justify just killing their product.

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