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[Bloomberg] OnlyFans to Block Sexually Explicit Videos Starting in October

Should porn be allowed on OF?

  • Yes

    Votes: 112 69.6%
  • No

    Votes: 49 30.4%

  • Total voters
    161

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Morgan Freeman Good Luck GIF
 

Davey Cakes

Member
I’d call lewds and nudes a form of softcore porn. They’re keeping those, so I think the site will be fine. You can find the hardcore shit anywhere.
 

zeorhymer

Member
Sounded like they want to go IPO or get more investor money and all that porn had to go.

Edit: I'm sure OF will be fine. There's plenty of folks who'll pay money for foot or food porn.
 
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Kinda have to wonder, why do payment providers even care? If I'm offering a payment service and I get a small cut from every transaction, the hell do I care what is being bought? (as long as it is legal)

This is what I was thinking about too, plus with the other sites being threatened recently. Why and since when did rich people start giving a toss about who and where the dollars are coming from?

These guys didn't used to give a fuck not many years ago, all they ever cared about was being even richer the next day.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
My question is - are they planning on rebranding? OnlyFans is basically synonymous with online sex workers / porn now.

"Hey, you can find me on OnlyFans!" = If someone said this to your right now, you'd immediately think "damn, I guess this person is doing porn from home".
 

Bombolone

Gold Member
Perfect opportunity to create a new platform to facilitate the markets needs.
100% serious
OnlyFans workers should galvanize to replicate the service.
Both Pimp and Whore.

If I had the capital I would be making a play right now before the employee base starts to splinter off.
 

jshackles

Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Perfect opportunity to create a new platform to facilitate the markets needs.
100% serious
OnlyFans workers should galvanize to replicate the service.
Both Pimp and Whore.

If I had the capital I would be making a play right now before the employee base starts to splinter off.
The biggest issue anyone is going to run up against (and apparently the reason porn is getting banned from OnlyFans) is that payment processors aren't playing ball because they don't want the legal problems associated with sex trafficking's and / or having their brand associated with pornography. It's hard to collect money from people willing to pay if you can't accept Visa or Mastercard, and that includes third party processors like Google Pay, Apple Pay, and Paypal.

You would have to build a platform that's SO successful that it'd literally have people figuring out Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies to use it. That's a tall order.
 

poppabk

Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Weird move.
Kinda have to wonder, why do payment providers even care? If I'm offering a payment service and I get a small cut from every transaction, the hell do I care what is being bought? (as long as it is legal)
I would guess that it is hard to know if it is legal - and they don't want to be linked to whatever scandal is bound to come down the line.
 
I can't wait for all the people who normally make a big deal about media censorship and "PC culture" to do a 180 and congratulate this move.

Kinda like all the supposed "taxation is theft" right wingers who got all upset about OF models not reporting it to the IRS or whatever. But when a billionaire CEO gets out of paying their taxes, they have nothing but praise and admiration. Double standards for sure.

Either way, this is a really dumb move. They're going to kill their entire platform. Personally, I don't see the point of OF subscriptions when there's a wonderful world of internet porn out there that you don't have to pay a single cent for, but this is one of the dumbest business decisions I can think of.
 

TransTrender

Gold Member
Good luck with that, but they gotta keep investors and banks happy. I used it once and Wells Fargo freaked out like my identity got stolen. Made me feel dirty.
LoL
I remember when banks used to do that stuff for World of Warcraft back in the day.
I don't understand why they would even bother. It's not like OnlyFans or Blizzard is a shell company for Al-Qaeda.
 

xrnzaaas

Member
This is like when Playboy cut out the naked lady pictures. Or when Tumblr banned porn.

How are those two companies doing anyways?
It was hilarious to think that people buy Playboy primarily to read articles. Yep, same deal here, they're gonna close down after a few months at best. Onlyfans is associated with nsfw stuff and they'd have to do a complete and expensive rebranding to change that. Don't see that happening.
 
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Keihart

Member
I’d call lewds and nudes a form of softcore porn. They’re keeping those, so I think the site will be fine. You can find the hardcore shit anywhere.
I don't think that's how it works...AFAIK, most of the people there already do the "Softcore" stuff in other places since it's allowed almost everywhere, be it Twitch, twitter or Instagram, that's how they get the audience.
No one goes to Onlyfans looking to browse and discover some softcore porn...
 
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zombrex

Member
Anything to keep the man (woman) down.
Notice how the elites always crack down on the little person getting rich.
YouTube, crypto currency, only fans etc. Porn is a billion dollar industry and there are huge vested interests
keeping the money where it exists now. Those providers have no problems when you use your cc for the biggest adult websites in the world. They don't want someone upsetting the status quo.

I will look forward to the fire sales at low prices.
An alternative will spring up.
 
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TheMan

Member
People don't see the bigger picture here. Payment providers and investors are doing this. Onlyfans doesn't have a choice.
This is exactly it. Any moron knows that their name is synonymous with porn and they are about to take a massive, massive hit with this move. But the alternative was to shut down immediately (instead of in 6 months lol)
 

OneMoreDay

Neo Member
Another display of power from Mastercard and their peers. Last year they came for Pornhub, now they come for OnlyFans. I get why people are bringing up CumRocket and such, because if we're heading for an Internet where it's impossible to pay for erotic content using your regular card, cryptocurrency is going to be bigger than ever.
 
Another display of power from Mastercard and their peers. Last year they came for Pornhub, now they come for OnlyFans.
That's the real headline here. Why do these payment providers care about any of this stuff? Like, no shit underage porn or forced sex work is horrible, but why is this suddenly of interest to payment providers? Shouldn't it be the government (police?) who keeps an eye out for that stuff so no illegal activities happen?

Kinda scary that payment providers can now just decide to cut off an entire industry whenever they feel like it. I wonder what's behind this really, because it's losing them money for sure. I also doubt they're putting in as much work when it comes to child labor or arms trading in foreign countries.
 

PSlayer

Member
That's the real headline here. Why do these payment providers care about any of this stuff? Like, no shit underage porn or forced sex work is horrible, but why is this suddenly of interest to payment providers? Shouldn't it be the government (police?) who keeps an eye out for that stuff so no illegal activities happen?

Kinda scary that payment providers can now just decide to cut off an entire industry whenever they feel like it. I wonder what's behind this really, because it's losing them money for sure. I also doubt they're putting in as much work when it comes to child labor or arms trading in foreign countries.
Current internet is a house of cards. It's site on top of another site like cloudflare which itself is running on top of some server provider like Amazon/microsoft. And to find your site you need another site like google.

If any of those power players don't like your site, it's over.
 
People don't see the bigger picture here. Payment providers and investors are doing this. Onlyfans doesn't have a choice.
Just go Bitcoin or similar payments, no more reliance on banks. Further why do they need investors if they're turning over $2Billion already. Clueless twats running that company by the sound of it.
 

nush

Member
10 print "Kill Onlyfans for investor bucks."
20 print "Open another Onlyfans site with investor bucks earned"
30 GOTO 10
RUN
 
This is the way.

It's so stupid that in US it's illegal, this only creates black market with slave/traffick sex workers.
I thought the point of sex was to procreate and pass on your genetics. Not to be degenerates and spread sexually transmitted diseases. As for the slave/trafficking of sex workers, blame the FBI, CIA and Mossad for that shit.
 
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