In case you missed it on Twitter before Christmas: much as I don’t have a great deal of respect for Mindgeek as a company, they are a channel upon which a bunch of people rely for their income… and the US (and, in particular, stoked by several NYT columnists) are waging a enormous and harmfully broad “moral war” in pursuit of very laudable, narrow goals of child protection.
Sarah T. Roberts, a UCLA professor of who studies online content moderation, described the campaign targeting Pornhub as “strangely punitive and uniquely puritanical in an American way.
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/pornhub-crackdown-credit-card-companies-cuts-sex-workers-livelihoods-n1251246#anchor-Ineffectivechanges
She said that pressure from activists over “disgusting outlier videos” is driving companies like Visa, Mastercard and Discover to adopt sweeping “no-tolerance policies that aren’t equally applied to other platforms or bad actors,” pointing to hand-wringing from companies over whether to de-platform white supremacists.
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