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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by dmix »

nkrisc wrote: post #699
wonderwonder wrote: post #533

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I honestly did not know they did anything besides porn. They have a really bad marketing department as I bet most people only know of them via porn (or I run in a slightly more degenerate circle).

Is it not a porn site? I thought it was a porn site.

They’ve been pushing hard for celebrities for a while. But TBH I’m not sure what more you get here in some picture-based fan club than you’ll find on Instagram.

Anything newsworthy will likely get reposted online somewhere within the hour anyway.

Otherwise it's just a PG13 version of itself with similar sexual undertones.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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qzw wrote: post #718
frutiger wrote: post #674

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>TFA: >> OnlyFans is getting out of the pornography business. >HN: > s/of the pornography //. …is getting out business?

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. -- Jamie Zawinski

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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by belter »

belter wrote: post #515
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 the least of their problems and I am amazed none of their executives is not yet in jail: "The children selling explicit videos on OnlyFans" https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57255983

From the article...I am also amazed at the downvotes.

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Schools have shared anonymous reports of pupils using the site, including a 16-year-old who boasted to her careers adviser about the amount of money she made on the site, and showed off her "exuberant" spending on Instagram.

Underage creators and users of the site include victims of prior sexual abuse and those with mental health issues and suicidal thoughts, according to Childline counsellor notes. UK police forces say children have complained about their images being uploaded to the site without consent, and one 17-year-old reported being blackmailed.

Missing children are appearing in OnlyFans videos, according to a US watchdog, which also says it has received reports of child sexual exploitation.

"It is increasingly clear that OnlyFans is being used by children," says chief constable Simon Bailey, the UK's child protection lead.

"The company is not doing enough to put in place the safeguards that prevent children exploiting the opportunity to generate money, but also for children to be exploited."

In a statement, OnlyFans says it could not respond specifically to the anonymous reports we were told about without the account details.

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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by busymom0 »

joe_the_user wrote: post #550
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.

How did they adapt to it? Asking as someone who didn't know Tumblr was still around.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by cbdumas »

marvin wrote: post #537
cbdumas wrote: post #454

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The fact that OnlyFans isn't even trying to move to crypto to keep their business alive is a stunning indictment of the state of crypto as a viable payment method.

Couldn't the explanation be as simple as them lacking imagination? They're not a Silicon Valley funded startup. My impression is they lucked into the golden goose, and this move makes me think they're downright clueless about their options when things get adversarial.

I guess that's possible, but it's hard for me to imagine that with billions of dollars at stake they didn't even consider it. I think they made the calculation that forcing their customers and creators to use crypto would lose them even more business than banning their core product.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by claytongulick »

MichaelGroves wrote: post #667
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.

> I totally agree that OnlyFans is a legitimate and ethical site "IRL", abusive relationships can be hidden in plain site from people who think they know the couple well. How do you stand any chance of knowing there isn't an abusive pimp behind the camera of an onlyfans account? Ultimately you only have intuition and guesswork to go off of, but both are fallible. Even if the platform itself is trusted and does a good…

I don't understand the argument you are trying to make.

Are you arguing that all sex work should be illegal because it is possible that there is an unhealthy relationship involved?

Would you also extend that to the modeling industry as well?

What about professional cheerleading?

Hooters waitresses?

If there is a couple who decides for the guy to be a stay at home dad, and the wife pays the bills via sex work, is he a pimp?

What if you reverse the genders in the above?

I know couples in both situations. I wouldn't characterize their relationships as abusive, but you might?

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by rich_sasha »

mdoms wrote: post #729
rich_sasha wrote: post #712

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Nothing particularly noble about porn, but it irks me that payment providers act as unofficial censors of business. Why should legal businesses be denied access to the de facto legal tender of 21st century? And on a whim of unelected CEOs...

I suspect it has less to do with their puritanical values and more to do with the enormous amount of fraud in the industry and the customer support load it places on them from the husbands, wives and children who swear up and down they aren't responsible for the charges found on the bill.

Well, ok, disable credit cards. But debit cards don’t have these protections, transactions are essentially immutable.

I get they are less popular in the US but are probably, hmm, 70% of cards in Europe? So that’s a viable option.

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Post by acchow »

bawolff wrote: post #251
o_m wrote: post #195

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

If bitcoin didnt get banned over drugs and murder-for-hire schemes, i cant imagine porn will be the tipping point.

My sense living in America is that sex-related issues are taken more seriously than, say, gun violence, murder, etc.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by stonecharioteer »

t-writescode wrote: post #488
mrRandomGuy wrote: post #109

Who the fuck is using OnlyFans for something _other_ than porn?

Apparently the LTT OnlyFans was very popular when it was around.

I did not need to imagine Linus playing with himself today.
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