Just yesterday we wrote about OnlyFans deciding to end its sexually explicit content in light of the financial institutions, the banks, using their considerable monopolistic power advantage to threaten OnlyFans with depersonalization if they didn’t.
After they made the announcement, the CEO made it clear this was not an inhouse decision, it was a banking decision. The backlash against OnlyFans itself however, did not relent. Even the progressives took up the mantle under the guise of honoring and respecting “sex workers.”
OnlyFans saw the writing on the wall, that with or without the banks if your users were not having it, you’d for sure be done if you continued down this banking-preferred path. Just a few days after making the announcement, OnlyFans is now reversing its decision and letting the sex content stay, and even letting more to be created on its platform.
It is not clear how OnlyFans will get around the tyrannical will of the banking powers, but at this point they are left but with little choice to try, as they will surely die if they continue with the ban, so what do they have to lose anymore to try to find an alternative financial house to allow them to complete transactions on their platform?
Sophia Bernardi, a spokesperson for OnlyFans, told The Washington Post that the move came after the company’s banking partners assured OnlyFans that it “can support all genres of creators.” Tim Stokely, founder and CEO of OnlyFans, told the Financial Times this week that Bank of New York Mellon, Metro Bank and JPMorgan Chase were the banking partners that caused the initial decision.
Onlyfans came rouring onto the scene the last couple of years with Bella Thorne igniting the fire when she made over $1 million in less than 24 hours on the app by offering nudes of herself to paying fans, called paypiggies in the industry vernacular.
Not to be outdone, the Cash Me Ouside Girl also made a million dollars offering nudes to paypiggies. Before that, and after that on a much larger scale, if you are a woman and reasonably attractive (or imagine that you are), dreams of OnlyFans gold was sure to enter your mind. At least it seemed that way.
The app set off a whole new cottage industry that threatened conventional sources of sex stuff like pornhub and others. It created an outlet for people (mostly women, though not exclusively) to exploit themselves rather than being exploited by others. Now, a woman could offer her nude services to a discrete clientel online and get ALL of the profit (well, sans the bit the app itself claimed) instead of only a small payment that allowed the producers to make far more money from her nude and sex services than ever she could.
The banks have declared that having a small monpopoly on the financial markets is hardly a danger to people at all, as of course they will use their considerably state-protected monopolistic advantage fairly and equally to all who simply obey the law. That, my friends, was a lie, and one that OnlyFans is exposing, though it’s not the first such proof that banks have decided to use their considerable state-protected financial industry monopoly to punish people who behave immorally according to their particular unaccountable standards of morality.
So the banks have decided that women, and even men, yes, men too, having the capacity to sexually exploit themselves and getting almost all the profit from that exploitation is just outside of their allowable moral standards. So they shook down OnlyFans and gave them an offer they couldn’t refuse. If they didn’t evnd the nude sex stuff, their ability to exist as a company would be over, as the cabal of banking would freeze them out of being able to process payments.
This is not at all a moral defense of sexually exploiting yourself for money, but it is a defense of a pluralistic society having the capacity to act on their preferences without being coercively manipulated by monopolistic corporations. First they came for the self-sex-exploiters, then they came for me, if you get my drift (though they came for a WHOLE LOT of people before they ever got around to shutting down the self-sex-exploiters).
After OnlyFans received the offer they could not refuse, they announced that the nude sex stuff’s gots ta go. As could be predicted, what followed next was nothing but outrage and scorn at OnlyFans, a company that now totters on the edge of existence itself, having ridden the great wave of viral for the past year. The CEO of OnlyFans quickly came out and spilled the beans on the offer that could not be written, the offer that came from the cabal of banks that decided this was just not morally acceptable, and their capacity to destroy us economically is all the justification they need to use that state-protected monpolistic advantage to force their morality on the rest of us.
Is it legal for the banks to do this in the alleged land of the Bill of Rights? Possibly so. This is why some have suggested creating a market bill of rights to reign in the out-of-control power of the monopolies that have almost all demonstrated a willingness to use their state-protected monppolistic advantage to deny basic rights that not even the government can deny. Whether the govenrment approves of it or not, this is de facto facsism, where the state uses market power to violate our rights legally because it’s not, at present, illegal for companies to do so.
If we are to be a people ever again, we must have an identity that does not destroy the multiplicities of identities our diverse lands possess. That identity is the Bill of Rights. And if we are to fulfill the promise that such standards offer, it is time to extend these rights to the marketplace as well as the government square, else fascism will continue to reign in this land and the Bill of Rights will continue to die until we all look around and realize this diversity has no unity anymore, and then, well, nations such as that implode or are taken over by stronger nations.
The OnlyFans censorship by our banking institutions should be the final wakeup call for us all, the proverbial canary in the coal mine that just let you know there’s poison in the air, something must be done.
Banks are to blame for OnlyFans’ ban on sexually explicit content, according to the online subscription service’s founder.
The platform, which is popular among sex workers, recently announced new rules coming into effect in October that prohibit “any content containing sexually explicit conduct”, though non-sexual nudity will still be permitted.
Initially the London-based company said the move was being introduced due to pressure from financial partners, leading some to assume payment processors Mastercard and Visa were behind it.
However, chief executive Tim Stokely has revealed it was “unfair” banks who prompted the change over concerns about “reputational risk”.
He named three banks – the UK’s Metro Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of New York Mellon.
“The change in policy, we had no choice — the short answer is banks,” he told the Financial Times.
“We pay over one million creators over 300 million dollars every month, and making sure that these…
As the “third founder of Google” and driving force behind several more internet companies, Scott Hassan, 51, rose from a debt-ridden university student to a giant of Silicon Valley, amassing a multibillion-dollar fortune.
But the code-savvy entrepreneur whose early work helped to create the world’s biggest search engine took a misstep before the opening of a bitter divorce trial in California last night.
Earlier this month his wife, Allison Hyunh, 46, found a mysterious website bearing her name that published embarrassing stories from her past. “It was basically intended to shame and scare me by impersonating me and trying to turn the world against me. I was distraught,” she told the New York Post. The website, www.allisonhuynh, showcased lawsuits and salacious details about a former
PGC – Ethiopia has announced it intends on building its own social media platforms to prevent silicon valley from determining what is truth and what is good. They are not the first to make this move. China was the first, and they certainly won’t be the last. The reason why has to do with the personal needs of the leaders of the nation-states these platforms are now controlling by controlling their public discouse. These individuals saw the writing on the wall back in 2020.
When Facebook and Twitter moved to check the social media access of the American President of the United States, many leaders around the world, even if they might openly celebrate the move, took serious pause and asked themselves this question, “How much power do these international social media companies have to affect our national sovereignty?”
Well, that’s the dishonest question they ask themselves, the one that preserves their nobility and prevents them from seeing the self-centered motivation behind the concern. Every leader looks into the mirror and sees Alexander the Great. It’s hard to be Alexander the Great when a power that is located in foreign lands has the ability to alter your political fortune by the particular ideology or morality it chooses to enforce upon your lands.
I predicted at the time that nations would be moving in short order to nationalize their social media platforms. China is far ahead of the rest of the world in this regard, having rejected American Silicon Valley expansion and choosing to develop their own CCP-approved social media platforms inhouse. Their social media platforms are already nationalized.
Outside of China, my suspiicion was the nations that would choose such a route would be the less powerful ones, just as I thought it would be the less powerful nations willing to take more dramatic chances with cryptocurrencies (which we see in El Salvador, which has made it the legal tender of their land). Ethiopia is just such a nation, and it has a real need to control narratives as it is in the midst of a civl war that feeds on the extreme fears and hopes of peoples who have suffered authentic injustices.
Ethiopia has been battling with Facebook over what it censors and what it does not, so now, it’s had enough. It has decided to develop its own social media network, something well within the capacity of most nation-states, even the smaller ones. The biggest expense in social media is in the servers and the human monitors. If your platform is serving only one nation, your cost of operation goes down to levels that allow almost any nation-state, and many larger free associative groups (if they so chose, and they will,in time, they will) can afford to develop and support.
The leadership of Ethiopia might not be proponents of free speech themselves, but they are the first of a small few among many to follow among nation-states to take the route that they are choosing now. The balkanization of the internet is coming, and Silicon Valley’s hubristic assumptions it could play God with morality and truth is to blame for creating the conditions that made it worth the investment of nation-stations to blunt. Nation-states are led by individuals, individuals that look in the mirror and see Alexander the Great, a man that would never tolerate the gordian knot of distant power controlling nation-state public discourse and opinion, that’s Alexander’s job, not yours.
Alexander would march to the Silicon Valley and shell it to a fine powder. Short of that, he would build walls to keep it out, even if it meant he had to build new digital roads within.
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 23 (Reuters) – Ethiopia has begun developing its own social media platform to rival Facebook (FB.O), Twitter (TWTR.N) and WhatsApp, though it does not plan to block the global services, the state communications security agency said on Monday.
Ethiopia has been engulfed since last year in an armed conflict pitting the federal government against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the Tigray region in the country’s north.
Supporters of both sides have waged a parallel war of words on social media.
The government wants its local platform to “replace” Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp and Zoom, the director general of the Information Network Security Agency (INSA), Shumete Gizaw,
said.
Shumete accused Facebook of deleting posts and user accounts which he said were “disseminating the true reality about Ethiopia”.
International human rights groups have criticized the Ethiopian government for unexplained shutdowns to social media services including Facebook…
PGC – As the talentless boundary invaders that are the corpowoketarianz mainstream comic books industry see their profits disappear, their sales plummet, the talented ones are leaving the perverse sinking ship to head to substack to create what they want, how they want. This is causing apoplectic seizures on the part of the corpowoketarianz who are looking for a way to destroy substack and any platform that dares allow human beings to escape their tyrannical control. That effort got a lot harder when Substack moved to accept Bitcoin as payment on its platform.
An integration with payment processor OpenNode will allow content platform Substack to accept Bitcoin payments on-chain and using the Lightning Network.
In a Monday announcement, OpenNode said it had partnered with Substack “to make it easy for writers and publications to get paid in Bitcoin.” According to OpenNode and Substack, the integration will only be available to “a select group of crypto-focused publications” on the platform.
The publishing platform, which allows writers to send their work directly to readers, has more than 500,000 paid subscribers, with the most popular writers reportedly earning more than six figures annually. The select Substack readers will be able to pay for their subscriptions in Bitcoin (BTC), with certain publications allowed to keep their earnings in crypto as well.
Substack product designer Nick Inzucch hinted that the platform could later expand its crypto payment offering to other writers in an effort to give them “more flexibility and…
Their actions will have lasting impacts on the diplomatic stage and on the lives of everyday people in Afghanistan.
The militant group’s rise to power is forcing Silicon Valley’s biggest internet companies to revisit their policies on how to treat controversial political actors. While the Taliban is banned from holding accounts or spreading propaganda on most big online networks, its takeover of the government means the tech giants will soon have to decide whether to expand its access or grant it the ability to manage Afghanistan’s official state social media channels.
They may also have to make decisions about whether to keep up or flag content that both praises and criticizes the group, with potentially perilous consequences for those posting it.
Last week, Facebook disabled our personal accounts, obstructing the research we lead at New York University to study the spread of disinformation on the company’s platform. The move has already compromised our work – forcing us to suspend our investigations into Facebook’s role in amplifying vaccine misinformation, sowing distrust in our elections and fomenting the violent riots at the US Capitol on 6 January.
But even more important than the effect on our work is what Facebook’s hostility toward outside scrutiny means for the many other researchers and journalists trying to study Facebook’s effects on society. We’ve already heard from other researchers planning similar projects who are now pulling back. If Facebook has its way, there will be no independent research of its platform.
Our dispute with Facebook centers on a research tool called Ad Observer. Ad Observer is a web browser extension that Facebook users can choose to install to share with us limited and anonymous…
YouTube is re-examining its medical misinformation policies as they pertain to local governments after taking down at least a dozen uploads of meetings, mostly for claims made during public comment periods that are not backed by facts
PGC – File this under, would you look at the proverbials on that guy, as Google decides, well, almost decided, to en an antitrust lawsuit against a plaintiff, Epic Games, by buying them out.
Epic Games filed documents that showed Google was contemplating buying out Epic Games for fear of its potential successful efforts to get around Google’s 30 percent commission charge. They knew if they closed the loophole, they were vulnerable to an antitrust lawsuit.
To prove that they are not a monopoly using monopolistic market advantage to coercively manipulate the market to control competition, Google almost decided to buy out Epic Games, in a move to expend its monopolistic market advantage AND silence competition at the same time.
Fortunately for all of humanity, the deal never went through.
While its ongoing feud with Apple is ratherwelldocumented, Epic Games is also in the middle of an antitrust complaint against Google over the removal of Fortnite from the Play Store. According to newly released court documents, Google at some point considered simply buying out the company in order to quash legal action.
In the documents, Epic claims that Google was afraid of Epic’s moves to dodge the 30% commission charged on payments through Google Play and offer Fortnite(and its very lucrative associated microtransactions) directly, quoting an internal document describing Epic’s plans as a “contagion” that could spread to other developers and platforms. In Epic’s own words:
Google has gone so far as to share its monopoly profits with business partners to secure their agreement to fence out competition, has developed a series of internal projects to address the “contagion” it perceived from efforts by Epic and others to offer consumers and developers competitive alternatives, and has even contemplated buying some or all of Epic to squelch this threat.
PGC – “Intelligent” drones run a quick diagnostic of the state of humans at a given scene. This data is beyond instantly filtered back and analysed by a team of deep learning ai machines, which, beyond instantly, give instructions as to mode of operation to assume next, not a complex list of commands, just an operational directive with parameters assigned.
These drone quickly identify the particular type of people the operators, owners of the drones have assigned them to identify, and for what purpose. Drones then rush in to do what has to be done to whom, according to the parameters of the operation given to them by higher up AI who received their orders from a small council of humans who determined what kind of humans are desirable and what kind of humans are not.
This scenario is most likely already here, but if you doubt it, the Czech are publicly releasing a project alleged to have created drones with brains, drones that can identify people who might be fighting or injured or whatever, though the story doesn’t bother to explore the possible beyond the narrative given them from the Czechs themselves.
Many of the liberty-shielding standards in America simply don’t exist in Europe, so we can expect Europe to be the immediate laboratory of how to integrate police state control into current year tech opportunities. Whatever works in Europe, narratives will begin to form in America that support the kind of stories of fear it would take to convince Americans to accept yet another invasion on their liberties.
Fights and injuries occurring inside large groups of people could soon be easier to detect, thanks to a new Czech-developed crowd surveillance system that analyses drone footage via the use of neural networks.
The innovative new system was developed through a joint research programme between the Brno University of Technology and the Czech Police, who have increasingly turned to drones to monitor large crowds in recent years.
Existing drones, however, are nowhere near as efficient as they could be, according to David Bažout, a fresh graduate from the university’s Information Technology faculty.
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