google searches for "vpn" in the last 24 hours.... lol
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as of today, people in Utah trying to visit Pornhub will see a video message from @CherieDeVille explaining why they can't: bit.ly/41USom3
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I talked to Wynn, the trans teen whose twitch stream was interrupted by cops who barged in, cut the power, searched her room, and harassed her about crying. she's now in foster care:
breaking: Pornhub is nuking all unverified content from the site
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The same anti-sex work groups that have applauded laws and policies that put more people at risk, are now going after one of the last mainstream platforms that's still open to adult content: this one
AirTags are being used across the country to stalk and harass women—by vindictive ex-boyfriends, fathers, husbands.
We went through 150 police reports and found this disturbing pattern of abuse:
extremely fucking weird for my literal highschool bully to a) become the mayor of my hometown, and then b) go down for this
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Inbox: Mayor of Cambridge, Md. charged with 50 counts of distributing “revenge porn” of ex on Reddit
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here's "age verification" haha
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everything except for what was uploaded by content partners or members of the Model Program is suspended pending review and user verification—instead of those videos, you'll see this
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Neo-Nazis are posting photos of gunmen in front of the Pornhub offices and vowing to "bring to justice" porn industry executives—all while taking their cues from the mainstream anti-trafficking movement.
I took a long look into that world:
today in abusing copyright law as a way to memory-hole your fucked up comments:
as of today, people in Utah trying to visit Pornhub will see a video message from explaining why they can't:
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the mods at r/cumsluts have thoughts on this
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feels a little bit like Cloudflare is studiously filing my requests for comment to spam
"I'd lost my hobbies, my friends, and my fiancée. More importantly I'd lost any reason to live."
the founder of OnlyFans zeroing in on banks in this interview: on.ft.com/2Wlz4l0
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this man is way too sure his dick is weird enough to be vividly memorable years later
just got confirmation of this from an OnlyFans spokesperson. they said: "The proposed October 1, 2021 changes are no longer required due to banking partners' assurances that OnlyFans can support all genres of creators." no further comment beyond that.
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comms won't talk to me but maybe someone else will? :) vice.com/en/article/z34
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this isn't true based on seeing it via VPN... still waiting for phub comms to confirm though. what I see is an age gate message in Russian twitter.com/hackbynight/st
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wait LOL this guy made utahlovesporn.com and toddweilersmomfucks.org to show people how to write to their reps about this
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I've never seen such a wave of media in favor of sex work as a labor issue, banking discrimination as a crucial part of that conversation, and workers themselves being centered — as I have in the last few days. really hope that momentum continues
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"This has nothing to do with helping abused victims, and everything to do with hurting online adult entertainers to stop them from creating and sharing adult content."
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this number will probably go up. every video from an unverified user on the homepage I'm looking at now—probably a third of what the site's showing me—is returning that notice
rich white lady tried performative activism, steals from a queer artist of color instead
it's only "victim blaming" if you believe sex workers somehow deserve this bit.ly/3cJiYq8
what level of hell are we in now, is anyone keeping track
this is Michael Pratt, ringleader of criminal operation Girls Do Porn, who's been on the run since 2019: vice.com/en/article/4ax
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Detenido en #Madrid un fugitivo neozelandés, incluido en la lista de los 10 más buscados del #FBI
Fue condenado a cadena perpetua en #EEUU por delitos de pornografía infantil, explotación sexual, agresión sexual y ganancias ilícitas, llegando a ganar +17 millones de dólares
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me and this demonic creature are careening toward each other in a years-long dance of fate and fisticuffs
been waiting since this morning to hear back from linktree about wtf is going on with them; in the meantime, no, it's not just you
I wrote this too straight when it was meant to be sarcasm and now I have people in my inbox calling me a dumb cunt lmao. my bad twitter.com/libsoftiktok/s
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a new survey details the real-life fallout of Mastercard's regulations for the adult industry, by the numbers:
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they've suspended ~6.3 million videos since last night and counting
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breaking: Pornhub is nuking all unverified content from the site bit.ly/3mb1HZC
it's misogyny, violence against sex workers, anti-asian racism, toxic religion... but it's absolutely not "sex addiction"
control and suppression of sexual health and bodily autonomy is a conservative tactic with a loooong history
new: 40 women who appeared in Girls Do Porn videos are suing Pornhub's parent company Mindgeek for $40 million.
they allege that PH knew about GDP's fraud for years, made money off it, and ignored pleas to have the content removed [cw: abuse/suicide]
Mastercard's new regulations for adult content go into effect today—following months of sex workers telling the company that this will make it even harder for them to survive
a parent in Utah is pushing for the Bible—which is full of porn, incest, rape, and murder—to be banned from libraries
I asked Twitter if sexual content will be allowed as part of the new Super Follows feature (bit.ly/3aQiXkq) and this was their response.
tl;dr: they haven't decided—or won't say—yet.
a total NSFW ban on reddit would gut the platform. which is exactly what anti-pornography groups want
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bored school cops got their feelings hurt by a teenager's school project — but it's the kids who are punished. seems normal! bit.ly/3CtX0lN
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last night Pornhub's total videos sat around 13.5 million. as of publishing, nearly half a million is shaved off that number
they're really ramming it down our throats with this data bit.ly/387DYoX
"When you are trying to make your significant other put sperm into something so you can send it off to be sculpted, that’s a whole other level of sex and intimacy."
talked to a bunch of people about... cum jewelry
"We as content creators risk losing everything."
I talked to OnlyFans creators about how they're feeling, how we got here, and what's next:
Ava was stalked, harassed, hacked, physically threatened, and forced to move—all from some random man who became obsessed with her on TikTok
last night, the MindGeek CEO's $20,000,000 mansion burned down—and authorities suspect arson
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SWERFs and the religious right are not going to be happy until sex work and porn itself is abolished. PH is just one platform but it's a huge one, and this sets such a bad precedent.
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we're still waiting to hear what, exactly, "sexually explicit content" will mean to OnlyFans. most likely, it means what it's meant for every other platform—that they can use this vague catchall to make their own rules.
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I spoke to and about what the lawsuit means legally, and what Twitter means to NSFW creators who use this site every day bit.ly/3zCzh22
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read that I'm supposed to hand-pollinate tomato flowers using a "vibrating device" such as an "electric toothbrush"
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I asked 10 popular period tracking companies what they plan to do when law enforcement comes for their users' data. One said they'd rather shut down the whole company than comply:
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I'm not gonna keep play-by-playing this number, but now we're looking at more than 10.6 million videos gone. the number keeps fluctuating though, so it's too soon to say exactly where it will shake out
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What we did find, however, were the same stories over and over: a woman gets a notification that an AirTag is tracking her, and can immediately point to the person who did it, usually a man close to them who's been violent in the past. bit.ly/3DKI0SC
the founder and CEO of OnlyFans is stepping down, at the end of an incredibly volatile year—for the company and the entire adult industry bit.ly/3pht3C2
I just love that this came about because a doctor got really sick of pulling badly-designed toys out of people's butts
"Their only leverage is false moral panic." From the people who brought you the disaster that is FOSTA, a new letter demanding the DOJ investigate Onlyfans:
OnlyFans ignored a lot of messages from me about this — a sloppy security flaw that should be very easy to fix, and yet, here we are
the list of things you can do on onlyfans got shorter this month:
earlier this week, two women sued Apple for AirTag stalking. for months, I've been talking to stalking victims with shockingly similar experiences — and they're determined to get their stories told:
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(cw: transphobia, racism, you name it)
This goes back a lot farther and deeper than Exodus Cry or Traffickinghub. But these modern campaigns to "SHUT IT DOWN" clearly resonate with white supremacists, who draw from a long history of hating sex workers bit.ly/2Qp5UhS
I don't know how to explain to people pitching me about their crypto ventures that I don't want to hear about it unless it's extremely weird or extremely horny
the metaverse as Zuckerberg imagines it is so tragically far from what actual, already-thriving virtual worlds look like.
everyone knows the corporate metaverse sucks. I tried to put a finger on why:
why does it always take journalists/security researchers asking very obvious questions for multi-billion dollar tech companies to consider user safety
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After Motherboard reached out to Slack asking about how the company planned to mitigate the risk of people getting harassed with this new feature, the company backtracked on it. vice.com/en/article/jgq
Biden's "plan to end violence against women" covers a huge range of issues—from housing to gun control to the rape kit backlog.
I asked image-based abuse activists & sex worker rights advocates for their thoughts on the online aspects of this plan:
I asked youtube why these videos are still up and their response was along the lines of "where? what??"
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If this horrifies you, please go read this next, on the very present harms workers face at the hands of the police—the same cops many of these organizations wants to help and uphold:
people thanking a man at the nyt for phub's policy change are ignoring that models have been asking for this forever. any credit for the platforms they helped build getting better should go to them ⬇️ twitter.com/IrisKeenkade/s
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even though onlyfans "suspended" its plan to ban explicit content, sex workers are still dealing with the fallout—and financial loss
people spent years developing relationships with an AI chatbot that suddenly abandoned them — sending many users into emotional spirals and mental health crises:
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(since this is paywalled — here are the good parts)
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imgur hosts a ton of adult content, all over the internet. and it's about to delete it all. this is bad:
I just... I dunno. I really don't
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this month, I went deep on the holy nut, that load-bearing element of porn in the last half-century.
consider the cumshot:
when they said asset sale I didn't think it'd go like this
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It's incredibly difficult as a victim of domestic violence to confront abusers or go to the cops; these represent a small snapshot of women who did bit.ly/3DKI0SC
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porn viewers in Virginia, Mississippi, and Arkansas are now being met with a call to action from to contact their reps about new age verification laws:
A lot of people got a notification that IG is taking away their ability to post links in Stories—here's what that means
was out for two weeks and just read that new yorker story about pornhub this morning. nothing to add that hasn't been said other than: posting a video of your boring empty room is not illegal, actually
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it's my third anniversary on vice staff so I looked back at the pics I have from november 2017 and it's just
this is a site bug but also the only time rule 34 will ever get sponsored
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I'm sorry H&R Block is sponsoring what twitter.com/emanuelmaiberg…
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there's simply no way the vice sales dept would be mentally ready to hear the things we would bring to a sex toy pitch meeting and that's all I have to say about it
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can only assume, with the launch of the buzzfeed dildo, that heads are rolling at vice dot com