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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by xanaxagoras »

ryanlol wrote: post #554
superfrank wrote: post #501

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I worked at a webcam pornography company (as a software engineer) a few years ago and honestly, I get it from the processors perspective. I wasn't privy to all the conversations, but I know at the time, some higher ups were toying around with the idea of basically building an entire in house payment processor to handle transactions. I think a lot of people think the processors are doing this out of some moral high gr…

Big Porn like onlyfans and pornhub are not being targetted by cc companies because of fraud rates, but because of the weird Christian fundamentalist lobby in America.

What year do you think this is?

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Post by randomhodler84 »

dboreham wrote: post #619
biztos wrote: post #586

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It really seems weird to me that with all the countries that allow various forms of sex work, payment processing is still such a bottleneck. As I understand it, independent providers doing 100% legal work in their countries live in terror of their payments being cut off due to the factors mentioned above. Where is the CoinBase of legal erotica?

That was "SpankChain", I believe.

Which is a scam along with any other porn themed coin. Every sex worker I’ve ever met holds bitcoin (maybe ether if they newer in this space). Sex workers know what is money and what is a fraud.

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Post by [deleted] »

NationalPark wrote: post #92
ianhawes wrote: post #84

This seems incredibly odd given that OnlyFan's primary payment processor is CCBill, a massive payment processor focused solely on adult content. Here is opportunity #3928 for Stripe to step in and earn their valuation and flex their payment muscle and allow adult payments.

Stripe's hands are tied - they need financial services to operate and banks (and CC processors) are the ones pushing down these puritanical values.

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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by smt88 »

zokula wrote: post #516
smt88 wrote: post #341

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I totally agree that OnlyFans is a legitimate and ethical site, but let's not kid ourselves about PornHub. It was mostly pirated content with a lot of videos of people being harmed.

Nobody was being harmed on Pornhub. Don't feed the lying anti-sex work media.

What about the company Girls Do Porn that PH refused to take down?

Some of those were literal rape videos.

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Post by andy_ppp »

adamcharnock wrote: post #627
jfup wrote: post #620

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>where does being able to “have” someone figure into any of this? The GP said "have relationships with these women", not "have these women".

I clearly should have read that comment more closely before getting on my high horse. Apologies.

To be fair I made heavy refinements to it so you may have read a less cogent version, specifically on the relationships thing! Sorry about that!

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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adamcharnock wrote: post #427
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…

A number of my friends and loved ones will be affected by this, and many more have been thrown under the payment processing bus before. And forgive me if this seems ranty, but it isn’t just payment processors, it seems to permeate so much that comes out of the USA. See the various App Store rules too. And this isn’t about fraud rates. Because why are the fraud rates high? It’s because the sex whole industry is pushed…

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Post by ummonk »

neolog wrote: post #466
zdragnar wrote: post #382

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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.

A lot of the attacks against amateur porn and sex work are by religious groups masking their actual motive by focusing on consent verification. Verification raises the barrier and makes performers much more vulnerable since their legal identities are attached to their work. https://newrepublic.com/article/160488/nick-kristof-holy-war...

Verification is obviously necessary to prevent revenge porn.

If that inconveniences performers, then that’s their problem to deal with. We shouldn’t be focused on making things easy for performers if that happens at the expense of allowing revenge porn.

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Post by zemvpferreira »

throwaway306744 wrote: post #604
paxys wrote: post #480

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A huge chunk of the planet is forced into jobs they don't like to provide for themselves and their families. What's so "dignifying" about a job getting humiliated by entitled customers in retail or waitressing for minimum wage or breaking your body doing hard manual labor? Religious morality is the only reason a much more safe, comfortable and lucrative option like OnlyFans is banned.

Are you saying that working retail or construction is about the same as doing porn in terms of how society treats you? That does not match my experience by a long shot. They are qualitatively different. > Religious morality is the only reason a much more safe, comfortable and lucrative option like OnlyFans is banned. I do not think this is right either. Take away all the religious baggage and still parents will try t…

I believe they're saying working retail or construction is about the same as doing porn in regards to how some people have to work jobs that break them down (emotionally, physically or socially) for money.
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