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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.

OnlyFans founder blames ‘unfair’ banks for ban on explicit sexual content

From feeds.breakingnews.ie
2021-08-24 19:33:03
BreakingNews.ie
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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…

 

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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.

Ethiopia to build local rival to Facebook, other platforms

From www.reuters.com
2021-08-23 12:02:00

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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…

 

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