thinking about Camming by Angela Jones and Selena The Stripper, Sex Workers Unite

📰📢 New op-ed in the Globe & Mail by @internetmaggie.com & me: Moral judgment has no place in deciding who gets to bank or not In it we summarize key points from our new report on sex work debanking, Account Closed Without Notice (see pinned 📌 post). www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/3d6ff41...

Important editorial (paywall) by @internetmaggie.com & Val Webber on Canadian banks' debanking sex workers with claims of high-risk transactions & risks to corporate reputations. Result is financial discrimination & stigma. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

In our latest for @theglobeandmail.com, @publicpubics.bsky.social and I summarize the issue of 🍁debanking analyzed in our new report: Account Closed Without Notice www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

"Adult industry workers in Canada have increasingly taken to social media to disclose their frustration with these experiences, detailing accounts being frozen and funds seized with no explanation and limited recourse."

If you haven't already please read this report on de-banking and account restrictions by my brilliant friend @internetmaggie.com! With all of the age verification and personal ID rolling out platforms like Discord, these kinds of restrictions and constraints are only getting worse.

I had a great time talking the latest tech policy news with Ben, including some deep cuts on meta political ads during Hungary’s parliamentary election and a new report on debanking from @publicpubics.bsky.social and @internetmaggie.com

Today @publicpubics.bsky.social & I are pleased to share our new research report: Account Closed Without Notice 🏦💸🚫☂️ we clarify policies restricting bank access for many 🇨🇦 adult industry/SWers + offer recommendations to secure fair financial inclusion for all www.internetmaggie.com/debanking

What's behind the debanking of adult industry/SWers in 🇨🇦? 🏦 ❌ 🌽 ❌ ☂️ ❌ 🏦 New report out from @internetmaggie.com and me! We review banking infrastructure/policies & offer recommendations to support financial inclusion for all: www.valeriewebber.com/adult-indust... www.internetmaggie.com/debanking

You can also find our report on Researchgate! Account Closed Without Notice: Debanking Adult Industry Workers in Canada 🏦💸🚫☂ doi.org/10.13140/RG.... we clarify policies limiting bank access for 🇨🇦 SWers + offer recommendations to secure fair financial inclusion for all @publicpubics.bsky.social

Today @publicpubics.bsky.social & I are pleased to share our new research report: Account Closed Without Notice 🏦💸🚫☂️ we clarify policies restricting bank access for many 🇨🇦 adult industry/SWers + offer recommendations to secure fair financial inclusion for all www.internetmaggie.com/debanking

V concerned to see great research orgs partner up with NCOSE to repeal Section 230. This article has is a v good history of NCOSE (once Morality In Media) & their campaigns against… literally any depiction of anything but conservative values on TV / the internet. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Incredible panel of adult industry advocates in discussion on the impacts of deplatforming today @cheriedeville.bskyverified.social @siridahl.com @savannahsly.bskyverified.social @swopbehindbars.bsky.social Starting in an hour! www.eventbrite.com/e/aylo-swop-...

Government-mandated internet restrictions only make our online lives more dangerous.

This is the same group. Please watch and share this video and educate yourself on how these Christian fundamentalist groups are shaping public opinion

New publication alert! Article by @nieborg.bsky.social and myself on platforms and institutional risk. We use the social casino developer Playtika to assess the shaping of financial, infrastructural, and regulatory risks in the platform economy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Here’s our starter pack for traveling Canadian friends. Comment to be added!! go.bsky.app/MT1yJAo

I made a new starter pack for Toronto full service workers. Let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed!) and I'll add as many as I can. I likely missed a lot of people so feel free to suggest folks as well. 😊 go.bsky.app/V3HHnHZ

Most journalists have moved on from this story. Thank you Mashable and @raxsha.bsky.social for covering mashable.com/article/adul...

While indie NSFW creators like @acvalens.com are throttled by platforms/💳/banks… sites like X profit from nonconsensual + abusive GenAI content on a *massive* scale It was. never about 'risky' content Its ideological I spoke w. @raxsha.bsky.social for this great piece ft. @publicpubics.bsky.social

My latest for @mashable.com! Ana's story led me to dig into who's behind all the censorship and financial backlash that adult content creators are facing. Lmk your thoughts 👀 Thank you to @publicpubics.bsky.social & @internetmaggie.com for your insights, and my editor @annaroseiovine.bsky.social 💕

"The line in the sand continues to shift...We don't know how these rules might evolve, and what type of online content might be next." A great article on debanking by @raxsha.bsky.social ft @publicpubics.bsky.social (qtd above), @internetmaggie.com & @acvalens.com mashable.com/article/adul...

GenAI citations (fabricated or not): -Built on stolen work -Obliterate human authors/efforts -Reproduce sameness, exclude difference -Antithetical to citational justice Banger work from @jblechinger.ca on teaching ethical/relational citation differently in an age of AI kula.uvic.ca/index.php/ku...

There is not a lot Canadians can do about ICE, but we can ask Parliament to investigate Canadian companies doing business with them, like Hootsuite. Call or email your MP - or contact the INDU House committee MPs. Will post link below. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Centered on the experience of a South Carolina woman whose image was ‘undressed,’ xAI faces a new class action lawsuit over Grok generating non-consensual sexual images and publishing them to X. Among its claims, the suit alleges the company abandoned industry safety standards.

New from 404 Media: an app that is supposed to help people quit porn is leaking users' masturbation habits. Incredibly sensitive stuff. “I just can't do this man I honestly don't know what to do know more, such a loser, I need serious help,” one user wrote. www.404media.co/app-for-quit...

I stabbed this Donkey Kong into existence 🍌 (I've taken up needle felting)

🇨🇦 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.