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 (DIR) Post #AAWQf9OswgQqV3HPWK by pra@mstdn.io
       2021-08-20T16:33:17Z
       
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       moral panic as a political toolRead this great thread on motivation for the recently-announced change to OnlyFans' TOS:https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1428584131835748359.html.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWQkgrRy05NiyHZAG by pra@mstdn.io
       2021-08-20T16:34:17Z
       
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       This isn't the first time moral panic over (admittedly horrible) rare edge cases has been used by anti-sex and anti-sex-work crusaders to crack down on consensual adults peacefully minding their own business.Back around the turn of the millennium, there were similar attacks on fan fiction and erotic fiction.  They resulted in then-popular sites like MySpace and LiveJournal purging tons of content.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWQqyCqOJKtFyHe1A by pra@mstdn.io
       2021-08-20T16:35:21Z
       
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       Those purges motivated some in the fanfic community to create a non-profit to host the community's fiction without prejudice and with strict, clear rules that protected all legal content.So that's how ArchiveOfOurOwn (AO3) came to be.  They can only host text, though -- media is too expensive for a non-profit to host at scale.  And they have strict anti-monetization rules because fan-fiction is in a grey area of copyright.
       
 (DIR) Post #AAWQyROYGYo7oMK22y by pra@mstdn.io
       2021-08-20T16:36:47Z
       
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       It seems to me the only way to get out of this loop, where a new site with loose rules (in other words, convenient for creators) gets popular, gets noticed, and gets attacked, is with a federated, decentralized protocol.  Like email.  Or, maybe Mastodon, as a newer example.  Nothing exists now that includes PPV functions, though.  Would require cryptocurrency to live up to its promises.