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Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by belter »

hackinthebochs wrote: post #746
belter wrote: post #515

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

No verification will be bulletproof, and persistent people will occasionally get around it. I'm not sure what responsibility OnlyFans has beyond taking reasonable measures to prevent circumventing verification. The article mentions someone using their older sister's license as verification. Presumably they look similar. And that's somehow OnlyFan's fault? There's no reason why the executives would have any sort of pe…

Read your comment again and realize what you are saying. This thread has more than 800 comments on the different online billing strategies and payment providers...Here you have an extensive well researched article of the BBC, with two different law enforcement officers confirming this is happening and you are arguing its not their responsibility? Who is the enabler here?

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by hackinthebochs »

belter wrote: post #751
hackinthebochs wrote: post #746

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No verification will be bulletproof, and persistent people will occasionally get around it. I'm not sure what responsibility OnlyFans has beyond taking reasonable measures to prevent circumventing verification. The article mentions someone using their older sister's license as verification. Presumably they look similar. And that's somehow OnlyFan's fault? There's no reason why the executives would have any sort of pe…

Read your comment again and realize what you are saying. This thread has more than 800 comments on the different online billing strategies and payment providers...Here you have an extensive well researched article of the BBC, with two different law enforcement officers confirming this is happening and you are arguing its not their responsibility? Who is the enabler here?

If you have a point to make, just make it. I have no interest in trying to anticipate your argument.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by selimthegrim »

jamal-kumar wrote: post #69
jerf wrote: post #9

So, serious question because I know very little about OnlyFans other than the general knowledge flowing around the internet: What does this leave of the site? Because my impression was certainly that this was the purpose of the site.

It's gotten taken over by celebrities. They don't promote content from girls selling their nudes anymore. Even dead ones get it better. I took one look at it recently and saw lil peep on there. My first thought was wow they're really putting a dead rapper's meat out there like that? But nah, it's like unreleased music videos and shit. Gotta wonder who is milking that.

Rachel Dolezal joining was probably the shark-jumping in this trend.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by TechBro8615 »

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.

Affiliate products and rebilling scams solved this problem 15 years ago. You just need a high risk merchant account provider who will accept the extra risk of chargebacks, most likely in exchange for higher fees.

Surely if the risk of fraud is an issue, the processing companies could simply price it into their models and charge the vendor a premium for it.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by syshum »

actually_a_dog wrote: post #519
tmp_anon_22 wrote: post #330

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> 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…

> 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 can operate beyond those constraints, which is kind of a sad state of affairs for free speech, separation of church and state, and policing in general. Welcome to the "free(…

Wow, this is sooo disingenuous I can not believe it is even being said

Aside from the fact that where a metric ton of regulations targeting processing adult content payments under the guide of "protecting the children"

There is another metric ton of regulations around creating and operating a payment processing system. There is a reason no competitors to paypal have really emerged. That reason is GOVERNMENT REGULATIONS..

Please stop saying people do not like a free market when they get one as there is NOTHING FREE MARKET about the banking industry in either the world or the US

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by compiler-guy »

svachalek wrote: post #669
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?

I wonder if crypto has finally found its "killer app". Pseudo privacy, no charge backs, permissionless.

For consumers, “no chargebacks” is an anti feature. Chargebacks are common by porn consumers for both invalid reasons—-like denying that you did bought porn to a spouse—and valid reasons—like a shady site over charging you. Both things are quite common in this space.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by fenderbluesjr »

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.

Personally, I would prefer if OnlyFans didn't exist. I think that is a nicer world.

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by dj_gitmo »

3np wrote: post #278
toomuchtodo wrote: post #125

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Oh god I can’t believe I’m going to say this. Crypto/Bitcoin, in keeping with the relationship the Internet and adult content have. Congrats Coinbase, Venmo, and others enabling censorship resistant crypto payments on your revenue bump.

Maybe OnlyFans talk to these guys and see if they can worm something out https://spankchain.com/

This is the first time I've seen x-rated Corporate Memphis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_Memphis

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by Sebb767 »

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.

As a joke of them doing porn. I heard there are Minecraft Let's Plays on PornHub, but I doubt they'll cut of porn to go full in on Let's Plays (and if they did, it would probably kill them like this will kill OF).

Re: OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

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Post by belter »

belter wrote: post #751
hackinthebochs wrote: post #746

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No verification will be bulletproof, and persistent people will occasionally get around it. I'm not sure what responsibility OnlyFans has beyond taking reasonable measures to prevent circumventing verification. The article mentions someone using their older sister's license as verification. Presumably they look similar. And that's somehow OnlyFan's fault? There's no reason why the executives would have any sort of pe…

Read your comment again and realize what you are saying. This thread has more than 800 comments on the different online billing strategies and payment providers...Here you have an extensive well researched article of the BBC, with two different law enforcement officers confirming this is happening and you are arguing its not their responsibility? Who is the enabler here?

My point is that they are subject to this:

https://definitions.uslegal.com/t/the-child-protection-and-o...

Try to use the excuse under a judge that the children are the ones fooling your obvious flawed registration system to see how that will go.

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