Onlyfans to ban sexually explicit content after October 1st.
The Reddit/Imgur virgins are in uproar. Quite a sight to behold. Apparently they're upset on behalf of all the 'Sex Workers' that will be out of a job now. How very noble of them.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2021, 22:39, Reply)
can't imagine OnlyTalibans will retain their $1bn valuation after that
(, Thu 19 Aug 2021, 22:48, Reply)
Apparently there's a big problem with underage kids uploading content due to the fact there's no age verification system.
As well as videos of sexual assault and other horrible grotty shit. I'd imagine that anybody investing in the company would need some assurance that content will no longer be available on the platform.
How they'll actually moderate that differently to how they're moderating it now is anybody's guess, but I suppose it's a start, even if it's just a token gesture.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2021, 22:56, Reply)
Can age verification of posted content be that difficult?
Presumably they have to have some sort of controls in place when it comes to dealing with the remuneration of content providers or is theirs simply a platform that the content providers use to host with a payment mechanism attached? Somehow divorcing OnlyCleanHands from the the content.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2021, 23:10, Reply)
Well, I recall that Onlyfans originally launched as a streaming site targeted towards gamers/cosplayers/etc
And then got kinda taken over by the porno brigade during lockdown. I assume that due to the original intended use of the platform that regulation of moderation/remuneration was pretty lax and remained that way once the client base changed. That, and apparently the founder has a history of dodgy ventures in a similar area to Onlyfans' final form.
It wouldn't surprise me at all if the site pays out in BTC (which is near impossible to moderate) and PayPal, which I remember used to be fairly poor at policing their own age restrictions.
Of course, basic age verification isn't a difficult thing to implement. Just make the person sign up with a valid credit card. But then you have the obvious issue of that limiting your customer base and also (if you're a massive cynic like me) limiting the range/variety of 'content creators'.
(, Thu 19 Aug 2021, 23:39, Reply)
