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psychothumbs@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Blue checks aren't protecting sex workers from X's porn crackdown

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Blue checks aren't protecting sex workers from X's porn crackdown

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psychothumbs@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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Blue checks aren't protecting sex workers from X's porn crackdown | TechCrunch
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When X (formerly Twitter) launched paid subscription verification, Mistress Rouge, a professional dominatrix, hoped that it would help her advertise to Sex workers bought Twitter Blue in hopes that it would protect them from being shadowbanned and deplatformed. Under X's new nudity policy, they're being censored anyway.
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    But according to Elon, he’s a “free speech absolutist” who will bring “actual freedom of speech” to social media.

    Yet another example of how every word uttered by a conservative is deception or manipulation. Conservatives are dollar store versions of human beings.

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      Free speech¹

      1. Unless you’re a slut, unionist, or too brown
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        Brown slutty unionists are my kinda people tbh

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        The Holy Trinity

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        Damn, I’m only 2 out of 3

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          2 of the 3 are something you can change, so that’s a win

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            Pretty sure I can change all three in the right pardner. giggity

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        Free speech*

        *for myself and people of my liking.

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        Equal free speech, some are more equal than others

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      That’s an insult to dollar stores

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        Yeah you can actually get some decent stuff at dollar stores if you know what to get

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      He meant freeze peach. You’ll get your can in your inbox soon, silly goose!

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    Under Musk’s leadership, X has become increasingly hostile toward nudity and explicit content. This week, X started flagging NSFW posts as “sensitive material,” as Rolling Stone reported, and restricting flagged accounts to limit their reach. Sex workers said their engagement tanked and their accounts no longer show up in X’s search, even if they weren’t notified about being flagged.

    Let sex workers be, you weird puritans.

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      “Free speech absolutist.”

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        When no one can speech, speech will finally truly be free.

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      Hey dont insult the Puritans, they were generally egalitarian and anti-slavery, also John Brown came from a Scottish Puritan background. If you got the Puritans of old to interact with these modern fuckwads youd pribably need a hazmat team to clean up whatever was left.

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    Porn and adult content was one of the hold outs on Xitter. If they’re going after that now, usage and users are going to tank again. If they keep this up, eventually the only thing that will be left on Xitter will be right wing assholes, white nationalist, and fascists.

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      Pretty sure that’s the end result they’re hoping for.

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      Look he just didn’t get the engagement he wanted on parler

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        Parler shutdown this year. I guess Elmo didn’t get the memo on what does and doesn’t work for a social media website.

        Parler’s New Owner Shuts Down Site: ‘No Reasonable Person Believes Twitter For Conservatives Is A Viable Business Model’

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      That might be Elon’s intention.

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        “Bring the mountain to Muhammad” kinda thing since Truth and Gab never took off.

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      I’ve said this about all the right wing social networks. Right wingers want to be on a platform where they can spread hate and bully people, no one else wants to be on that platform, leaving the right wing no one to bully, rendering the platform useless to them.

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      For some reason I read Xitter as Xitler… Time to take medications.

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    Tumblr users fled to Twitter after the porn ban, now Twitter is making the same mistake.

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      deleted by creator

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        This is such a bizarre point. Why does anyone try to use existing services when they can just make their own. Go dig a well for water and build your own dam for hydroelectric power.

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        Yes. They’re not developers for a reason.

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          They prefer to be fucked over at work in a different way.

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          Oh yeah, give it to me, ohh, ohhhh, OHHH YEAH

          Wait why the hell does it still say ‘critical error at line 5176’ HOW THE FUCK DO YOU DO THIS SHIT?! It was so much easier when I just boned people.

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            Semicolon.

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        I think the problem with that is banks and companies like MasterCard blocking payments to sex work

        https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/how-mastercard-is-endangering-sex-workers

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        Deplatforming is bad when one of left’s sacred cows gets targeted.

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          So you, due to passing your purity test of being both on the right and against deplatforming are saying you now disagree with Musk’s interpretation of free speech and are now denouncing him due to his deplatforming of sex workers. Right?

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            I really don’t care about either of them, I find it funny how the argument “free speech only applies to the government” goes flying out the window when somebody we like gets booted of a privately owned platform. And criticising certain parts of leftist rhetoric does not automatically make me a right winger

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              We?

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    another hit from the self proclaimed “free speech absolutist”

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    Downvote Musk spam.

    The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don’t be a useful idiot.

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      I wish I didn’t have to work so hard to avoid this sort of content every single day

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    Poor fools, it’s always run on porn.

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    Don’t a lot of those angry incels go to Twitter to see tits though?

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      Honestly, if Twitter suddenly cracking down on T&A ends up causing another X-odus to the fediverse, then it is mildly amusing that the “masto” in “Mastodon” is literally from the Ancient Greek word for “boobs”.

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        Good old boobytooth is the place to be!

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        It’s all comes around in a great big circle or a single boob

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    “Company enforces TOS, rulebreakers outraged”

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