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Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by vmception » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

toofy wrote: post #519

White this is temporarily great news for sex workers, its worth keeping a couple things in mind: This would seem to be in large part an extension of the wider religious right and groups similar to the Moral Majority's push from previous decades to remove sexuality or "objectional content" from the public sphere. This recent OnlyFans (and PornHub) pressure were driven in large part by pressure from Exodus Cry and NCOS…

Nah its just the payment processors

Its only a matter of time before a service relying on a Metamask extension on a cheap Layer2 is extremely popular

This will be much much harder to police so its kinda of counterproductive to go after permissioned centralized services as it accelerates the inevitable

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by cletus » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

Does anyone think this was a failed pivot from the p0rn and the backlash was so great that they backpedaled?

It actually reminds me of Ebay. Ebay became big with online auctions but as soon as they did they seemed to want to no longer be in the auction business. Instead they wanted to be in the online retail business. Maybe because there was more money per customer. Maybe because online retail was larger. Personally I always found Ebay's retail move to be weird and off-brand with a subpar user experience.

Something about this Onlyfans move just doesn't sit right. Like who were the banks or payment processors that supposedly forced this? I haven't seen anyone claim responsibility (officially or not).

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:07 PM UTC

losteric wrote: post #545

pope_meat wrote: post #529

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sigh Why can't these cults just follow their own rules, why the hell are you trying to take ME to your miserable heaven.

Fighting an outside "other" simplifies maintaining social cohesion within the cult, therefore sustaining exploitation of cultists.

This needs to be more widely understood.

Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons don't just go door-to-door to spread their word. They know that the extreme majority of people they ring are going to just shut the door in their face. Leadership knows this, and it's a tool. After they get repeatedly rejected, church leadership can say "They don't love you, but WE do!" and it further solidifies their belief in their religion.

It's all about creating another "us vs them" scenario.

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by bastardoperator » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:08 PM UTC

toofy wrote: post #519

White this is temporarily great news for sex workers, its worth keeping a couple things in mind: This would seem to be in large part an extension of the wider religious right and groups similar to the Moral Majority's push from previous decades to remove sexuality or "objectional content" from the public sphere. This recent OnlyFans (and PornHub) pressure were driven in large part by pressure from Exodus Cry and NCOS…

This is looking like a failed mission from my perspective. If anything I think today people in general are more understanding and accepting of sex work and sex workers.

If anything Christianity is on the decline due to mass hypocrisy.

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by dang » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

merricksb wrote: post #184

More active discussion at top of front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300966

Thanks! We'll merge those threads.

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

toofy wrote: post #519

White this is temporarily great news for sex workers, its worth keeping a couple things in mind: This would seem to be in large part an extension of the wider religious right and groups similar to the Moral Majority's push from previous decades to remove sexuality or "objectional content" from the public sphere. This recent OnlyFans (and PornHub) pressure were driven in large part by pressure from Exodus Cry and NCOS…

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Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by alex_young » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

willcipriano wrote: post #527

toofy wrote: post #519

White this is temporarily great news for sex workers, its worth keeping a couple things in mind: This would seem to be in large part an extension of the wider religious right and groups similar to the Moral Majority's push from previous decades to remove sexuality or "objectional content" from the public sphere. This recent OnlyFans (and PornHub) pressure were driven in large part by pressure from Exodus Cry and NCOS…

> similar to the Moral Majority's push from previous decades to remove sexuality or "objectional content" from the public sphere. "History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” – Mark Twain

On the one hand I love the spirit of this quote, but on the other, it's pretty solidly not a Twain quote: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by throwaway2037 » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:10 PM UTC

jkestner wrote: post #274

pwned1 wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every single job I've had in my adult life (I'm 42 years old now) was because I knew someone. It pays to know people and make friends/connections. I got started with an unpaid internship in high school (every school should require that) and life grew out of that. [edit] And my family was anything but "traditionally professional." I had no connections whatsoever through my family.

Pretty much the same here. Many of those connections were from school, going all the way back to elementary. So as a parent now, I feel like part of my job, for better or worse, is to nurture their friendships and maintain them with playdates once they aren’t in the same school.

Do you also make an effort to include children from lower socio-economic backgrounds? That is a good way to contribute to a flatter society, that depends less upon "the privileged people I know to help me get a job".

Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:12 PM UTC

dna_polymerase wrote: post #103

immmmmm wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

a good friend of mine is a sex worker, a cam girl to be precise, and uses OF as it is safer than other platforms. it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual and do this job due to severe psychiatric problems that prevent her doing more "normal" jobs. she feeds one child with this money, as a lot of sex workers that are also loving moms. it is important that such platforms do exist (if they implement proper…

> it should be noted that she is a brilliant individual it should NOT be noted. Too many good people died in the wars of past centuries to get us to the freedom and liberty we enjoy today to let any fundamentalists dictate what a normal job is and who works it. Sex work is work and if you dislike it you'd might enjoy Afghanistan these days.

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Re: OnlyFans drops planned porn ban

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Post by dang » Wed, Aug 25, 2021, 5:13 PM UTC

traveler01 wrote: post #66

As a Gen-Z also recently graduated (less than 5 years), I can assure you, the fact these platforms are so big is because being graduated isn't worth anything these days. You are lucky or you are not.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28301239.