🇨🇦 SWers + 🌽 creators! @publicpubics.bsky.social & I have been researching SW financial discrim. in Canada + are seeking anecdotes of de-banking to include in our published report Has a bank ever frozen/closed your accounts or withheld $? Willing to share your experience? DM me (+ pls share!)

Canadian creators! 🌽💦 @internetmaggie.com and I are writing a report on the debanking of 🇨🇦 adult industry workers and we're looking for a few anecdotes to include. If you've been debanked and are comfortable sharing a few words about your experience (under whatever name you like), drop me a DM!

I reached out to the sponsors of the Take It Down Act and the Kids Online Safety Act, all of whom maintain a daily active presence on X. I noticed that most of them continue to post on X officially despite getting little to no engagement on their posts. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-deepf...

as роrո bans proliferate across various platforms, it's critical that we ask: who sets these prudish standards? and why? my latest research in @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social nal.bsky.social clarifies how credit cards + payment providers influence moderation standards online (linked in quote!)

twitter was always exactly this. what we're seeing this week is a culmination of years and years of abuse run rampant on the platform, supercharged by a megalomaniac's greed and fantasy www.404media.co/grok-ai-sexu...

I'm glad to see this pressure on Google and Apple. If any other company was running an active CSAM generator in public you better believe it would have been removed from their app stores by now www.wired.com/story/x-grok...

Next Thursday I’ll be at the FSC Summit discussing the same thing but anyone who’s not that should be here, watching this.

404 Media remains one of the few outlets to actually protect and defend adult devs with zero self-consciousness. Bless Sam Cole

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

"our most intimate interactions with others are now governed by the expectation of surveillance and punishment from an online public" - Kate Wagner on restoring the privacy of sexual fantasy lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

Porn and erotica are important and societally valuable forms of speech, and the defense of them, in the face of state and church attempts at repression, is a necessary political act.

Eight years ago this stuff was the domain of creeps and losers, too toxic for any company to support. Now the world's richest man is being rewarded for it. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

How do Visa + Mastercard control what content is allowed on platforms? (spoiler: moral panic+algo-bias) My 💥new article💥 out today in @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social clarifies credit card + payment processor influences using Pornhub's 2020 moderation scandal full article: doi.org/10.1080/2326...

Unclear how a $19 billion dependency on a US tech giant will "promote and protect Canada's digital sovereignty" blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

How do Visa + Mastercard control what content is allowed on platforms? (spoiler: moral panic+algo-bias) My 💥new article💥 out today in @pornstudiesjournal.bsky.social clarifies credit card + payment processor influences using Pornhub's 2020 moderation scandal full article: doi.org/10.1080/2326...

We are recruiting game makers affected by the 'NSFW' policy changes on Steam and itch.io for a survey. This survey is part of a broader project on the factors that shape the production, distribution, and consumption of porn games. More info about the project and survey at www.pppproject.com

Masturbation is self care Masturbation is self love Masturbation is good for your health Masturbation is good for your mind Masturbation is not shameful Masturbation is not immoral Masturbation is human Shame is a manmade construct. There's nothing embarrassing or shameful about masturbation!

Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.

Edmonton people talk about winter as though it's a biblical plague that descends upon the city once a year, four months of endless darkness and unmelting snow and sometimes the sky fills with an eerie green glow

Warning! Incoming game 🟪 I went full throttle with #CanCon nostalgia for Halloween this year: 🪸🔱 AndrAIa 🔱🪸 from Reboot (1994) Stay Frosty, Sparky! 💋 #ReBoot #AndrAIa #Alphanumeric

Remember that the predominant form of age verification for porn sites — the new mandates passed in nearly every red state in the past few years — is a facial scan coupled with government ID.

Bom Dia @aoir.bsky.social!! 💕 Come check out our 11AM panel on ‘Sexual Content’ [11F - 2nd floor!] ft. @susannapaasonen.bsky.social, Lorena Caminhas, Rachele Reschiglian & Cosimo Marco Scarcelli

Once again, I'm asking for governments and lawmakers to have the slightest idea about how the Internet does - and doesn't - work... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hey Canadians! Age-verification laws are looming in 🇨🇦 if Bill S-209 passes in it's current form, you'll need to register in a govt. mandated database to watch p🍑rn in Canada

Canadian 🌽 folks! The 🇨🇦 senate is currently hearing feedback on Bill S-209: An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to p0rnographic material If you care about sexual expression, privacy, or online surveillance - tune in NOW: sencanada.ca/en/committee...

Canadian porn folks! The 🇨🇦 senate is currently hearing feedback on Bill S-209: An Act to restrict young persons’ online access to pornographic material If you care about sexual expression, privacy, or online surveillance - tune in NOW: sencanada.ca/en/committee...

"If history teaches us anything, these projects of moral and social purity are doomed to fail... But the costs of these panics—censorship, stigma, surveillance and state-sanctioned discrimination and violence—are borne by real people whose freedoms and dignities are stripped in the process."

Michigan’s dystopian ‘Anticorruption of Public Morals Act’ would criminalize all porn and depictions of Trans people online 🚫 From Eco’s Classic Signs of Fascism: stoke fear of difference + limit access to (sexual) knowledge to prevent critical reasoning or resistance www.them.us/story/michig...

The author of this Arizona age-verification bill admitted that *he* would never upload a government ID to access but passed this law for the rest of us.

Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Rotten man will be rotting where he belongs www.404media.co/michael-prat...

Been trying to explain these ideas simply FOR YEARS and I finally figured out how youtu.be/YPM31WZjR3w

Corn Telethon is only two days away!!!! I’m SO EXCITED! 💛 like if you’ll be watching ♻️ repost if you’ll be donating 🗣️ quote repost if you’re one of the almost 100 people participating! This Thursday, September 4th, 9am-9pm Pacific (12pm-12am Eastern) corntelethon.com for more info! 🌽☎️ 🌽☎️ 🌽☎️

“The median OnlyFans creator makes just $180 per month. The top 1 percent of accounts make 33 percent of all the money, and the top 10 percent gobble up 73 percent of the funds paid out.” www.townandcountrymag.com/society/mone...

The introduction of age-verification in the UK this weekend appears to be an unmitigated disaster. Anyone accessing socials now has to upload ID, scan their face or otherwise verify. The outrage is widespread and everyone is just finding workarounds. The government has gone into defense.

We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

I’ll be going live on my YouTube channel this afternoon/evening to discuss age verification, the censorship of Steam & itch.io, and the grifting anti-LGBTQ, anti-porn organizations that are intent on ruining the internet. 🙃🙃🙃 youtube.com/@siridahl

Anti porn feminists are just white supremacists with better branding

Thousands of sex workers are being swept up in targeted ICE raids of massage parlors and abducted off streets with the help of facial recognition. Law enforcement is using the threat of deportation to commit widespread sexual assault. But the larger immigrant rights movement is shunning them.

Sexuality is a huge part of our identity and community development, yet access to sexual education, healthcare and content is often spun as 'harmful' The 'Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton' decision implies we have no legal right to privacy when viewing pornography www.vox.com/scotus/41806...

WSJ: The Mysterious Billionaire Behind the OnlyFans Porn Empire. By @samschechner.com and Katherine Sayre. Gift link! OnlyFans is for sale for $8 billion. The owner and his wife are Soviet Jewish émigrés who are philanthropists. Delighted to see Maggie MacDonald (UofT) quoted! @internetmaggie.com

The idea that War on Porn will only have positive outcomes! That it will only target "bad" stuff, that it doesn't require broad digital surveillance, or suppression of sexuality, or that it won't be turned against marginalized people. The same absolute hubris of these people.

The Swedish law criminalizing the purchase of online sex (e.g., cams, livestreams, customs) goes into effect July 1. Sex workers are sounding the alarm: fears about platforms blocking Sweden entirely, about increased digital surveillance, about being pushed into more dangerous work.

CALLED IT www.politico.eu/article/porn...

Ah yes, France - notorious lovers of govt. interference in their civil liberties! State-enforced censorship of pornography has such a strong track record over there 😌 www.bbc.com/news/article...