OnlyFans to ban sexually explicit videos

[Thelnebriati]

''OnlyFans to Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October''

Nudity will still be permitted. The changes are needed because of mounting pressure from banking partners and payment providers.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/onlyfans-to-block-sexually-explicit-videos-starting-in-october?sref=W6GJF3MS

washingtonnewspost.com/news/tech/onlyfans-bans-sexually-explicit-conduct-but-nudity-is-still-okay-engadget/

I think you're spot on there @TomFarr1

Interesting to compare your piece with this in the graun. Spoiler alert: the change at onlyfans is bad for women and has been brought about by right wing evangelical lobbying [eyes roll all the way out of head]

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/21/onlyfans-sexually-explicit-content-gilead

Have you seen the news that they have reversed their decision to ban sexually explicit content. I was talking to a friend about it last night and he's texted me this insightful comment he read in a tech forum, which I think is bang on:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28306368

Doubt it. This IMO is probably the best PR maneuver ever conceived. I doubt they ever planned to do it.
The BBC was just about to release a long-researched exposé about all the moderation issues they have and how child porn and abuse were going unchecked on their platform. This was a supposed to be a huge deal that could destroy them if the media at large rallied around that story like they did with Pornhub. By making this announcement before it came out they stole the narrative and switched the focus away from that problem and towards the issue of what are all the sex workers going to do when they suddenly lose their income and also just how crazy the announcement was in of itself.
They did it with perfect timing and drummed up such a fuss with such a wild and seemingly out of nowhere change that when that article actually dropped, it was merely background noise and not the primary focus of media coverage. The media likes to hyper-focus on issues for a short period of time (with a few exceptions, trump/covid/amazon being a few) and then quickly move on regardless of whether the issue/story has finished or resolved itself in anyway. Which is what will likely happen here, OnlyFans will likely make it through this mostly unscathed and with a ton of publicity.

@TomFarr1 interested in your thoughts?

Damn. That sounds depressingly plausible @Ereshkigalangcleg. Kind of like when Heinz pretended it was going to discontinue salad cream, only… more so.

Yes, exactly.

That's very depressing and not at all beyond the realms of possibility.

@TomFarr1

Thanks! It was an excellent piece. I’m not seeing much criticism about only fans … just those singing it’s praises, so it’s refreshing to read a piece that puts it in accurate perspective.

Scared of being held accountable for the kidiporn?

@TomFarr1

From your other article on The Critic

thecritic.co.uk/crouching-exploitation-hidden-misogyny/

“The fact men are so eager to support the normalisation and sanitisation of the commercial sexual exploitation of women and young girls should set alarm bells ringing. It’s no skin off our nose if a woman believes herself to be “empowered” by the industry, and in fact, that just does the leg work for us. It is Barthes’s Death of the Author come to life: her empowerment lives and dies with her. She is viewed as the same dehumanised object that can be purchased on a whim whether she believes herself to be or not.”

We need a whole new thread on this! How men are happy to throw ticker tape parades for porn and to convince women to participate in their own degradation.

I used to work for an adult dating site and we had the same thing with payment providers. We had to categorise every image and video on the site as explicit or safe so that they could be hidden if necessary and make an algorithm that filtered our certain keywords, mostly fetish related. I had to write a list of safe suitable words that could replace them. It was a strange job.

@Janaih

I used to work for an adult dating site and we had the same thing with payment providers. We had to categorise every image and video on the site as explicit or safe so that they could be hidden if necessary and make an algorithm that filtered our certain keywords, mostly fetish related. I had to write a list of safe suitable words that could replace them. It was a strange job.

Was that to get round the payment providers qualms about selling financial services to pimps?

@dyslek I would imagine it was investors of the payment providers. There are only certain providers that work with adult and gambling sites due to high fraud/charge back risk. The same one we'd used for years but all of a sudden they wanted rid of all explicit content asap.

So it was to get round rules the payment providers had set up?

I wonder what changed the banks mind? had any bad stories come out, like the Millie Dowler case or something like that?

Yes.

“The fact men are so eager to support the normalisation and sanitisation of the commercial sexual exploitation of women and young girls should set alarm bells ringing. It’s no skin off our nose if a woman believes herself to be “empowered” by the industry, and in fact, that just does the leg work for us. It is Barthes’s Death of the Author come to life: her empowerment lives and dies with her. She is viewed as the same dehumanised object that can be purchased on a whim whether she believes herself to be or not.”

This cannot be said enough.

I wish women and girls could see this but how can they when they NEVER get space to even BREATHE away from men's exploitation and abuse and leering and sick gaze and stinking breath and body odour...how can they?