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Originally Posted by blackmonsters
Yep, porn is the difference between multi-million and multi-billion in real life.
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We live in a world of "freedom of speech and expression" that gets wiped out at the gate by legal corporate censorship.
"Social media" decides what is suitable to be freely expressed, and platforms that cater to some arbitrarily filtered adult content do the same.
Legislation will not resolve corporate censorship, because the censors are fully backed by neo-lib and conservative governments.
The only way to move this nut is through consumer pressure.
Softcore models and customers of OnlyFans can boycott, expressing clear intent that they will not participate in pseudo-adult platforms.
The nineties are over. Even big new players like Patreon at least flinched when their corporate "community" policies put independent sex trade workers out on the street, and a broad social community called them out for it.
Even with webhosting, I see queries now and then about which web hosts support "adult". But the reality is that some webhosts have seriously relaxed their arbitrary censoring of "unacceptable adult content". If it's legal, put on servers that can handle the (crap) traffic load they are likely to get, and flag their content appropriately, they are fine with it.
The work that organizations like EFF have been doing to reduce the (conservative-punitive) onerous clerical requirements of 18-2257 compliance is very important and should continue. I hope that their victories are not limited to protecting just the clients who they represented in the precedent setting case, otherwise, one (not in the list of protected clients) might start thinking that even "free speech institutions" serve mostly big interests.
Anyone who "platforms" either technologically, or through financial processing, should observe the law and stop their (conservative focus group) corporate censorship.