Another fevered story in the Daily Mail this morning attacking OnlyFans. The British tabloid press has been amping up antiporn stories, in what I suspect is a coordinated campaign to gin up public (and thus legislative) anger.
We've seen this before.
We've seen this before.
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Often the "crimes" reference have to do with attacks on creators themselves, like harassment or stalking. Or are nearly a decade old.
A whole article was written on a "whistleblower" report of allegations by "anti-trafficking" expert (who has been making the same claims for years). Visa investigated and couldn't find anything, which tells you something.
The alleged (but largely unsupported) claims of criminality seem to a way of addressing a panic about women's purity.
That's.. not.. what a purity spiral is, that's not a good opposite. There's bigger problems here, but holy shit, a purity spiral is when a group casts its own members out because of increasingly stringent requirements to be in the group.
Pulling in bad-faith members with no standards.
And also they should stop playing into puritan talking points, that would also be helpful.
You really have to hit this head on (and not with corporate speak) or it quickly builds as a pretext for censorship. So I worry.
And they're still attacking it.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/ann-wagner-fosta-onlyfans-csam-doj-letter/