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OnlyFans CEO on Why Site is Banning Porn: 'The Short Answer is Banks' - Slashdot
After facing criticism over the app's recent move to prohibit sexually explicit content starting in October, OnlyFans CEO Tim Stokely pointed the finger at banks for the policy change. From a report: In an interview with the Financial Times published on Tuesday, Stokely singled out a handful of...
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I never understood the business thinking in that decision if it was Mastercard.
Imagine Mastercard told FedEx that, hey,international shipments really aren't OK with us, please stick to domestic shipping from now on. And FedEx looked at their income model and saw that 80% of their income was coming from international shipments (to be clear, it isn't). Now, what would happen?
A) FedEx would stop doing what earned them 80% of their income; or
B) FedEx would use another payment system than Mastercard, like cash, bank transfers, PayPall, or whatever the heck else they can think of.
OnlyFans must have known perfectly well what approximate percentage of their income was coming from sex industry workers or sexually explicit content. It's completely stupid to crash your own (profitable! Which is rare for an on line startup!) company because of one service supplier. Yeah, MC is big...But they're not the only one. If MC was the big pusher behind this, there were perfectly good ways of making it abundantly clear that all discomfort was to be laid at their door. Obviously it'd still have had repercussions - for some people Mastercard would be the only option, etc etc. But still.
I think it was more likely around the timing of this report from BBC: OnlyFans: How it handles illegal sex videos - BBC investigation - BBC News
Trying to bury that report, particularly for a London-based organization as it starts towards an IPO, seems likely.
Trying to bury that report, particularly for a London-based organization as it starts towards an IPO, seems likely.
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figmentPez
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That's one big difference between this and the PornHub purge. Back when that happened, most news outlets reported it as "Heroic credit card companies force PornHub to clean up it's act in order to protect children from exploitation!" and since then sex workers have been working hard to communicate to reporters about the religious and other ulterior motives behind these decisions. Because a lot of people saw this coming. It's a pattern that's played out multiple times.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I don't think this is just about morality. If these banks and credit card companies really had a problem with adult content, they'd have stopped doing business with OnlyFans before it got this big. At the very least they're just being hypocritical, making money off of porn while still making a public spectacle out of banning it off some famous site periodically. It could go a lot further than that, and be a way to keep independent content producers from gaining too much power, and maintaining porn as a big business.
Heck, if you really want to get conspiratorial, remember that Epstein and other sex traffickers have ties to banking. Kicking sex workers off of OnlyFans is a windfall for sex traffickers. Among all the women making money off explicit content on OF some percentage of them will have that money being the difference between financial security and desperation. Any time they have to migrate services, they will almost certainly have a dip in income, and that makes them vulnerable. Sex trafficking isn't just women getting thrown into unmarked vans, the majority is done to victims by people they know. "Oh, hey, sorry OF cut you off and you're suddenly struggling. I know a great opportunity for a woman like you. You can trust me, we've known each other for years." Traffickers who knew this was coming, and it wasn't hard to predict, are probably taking advantage of it as we speak. The only question is, are they taking advantage of the morality war between banks and content creators? Or is the whole "morality war" part of the setup to make women vulnerable to sex traffickers?
figmentPez
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figmentPez
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The groups trying to purge porn from OnlyFans are religious extremists with fascist views, ties to QAnon, think Hitler was doing God's work, etc.