A good article especially when it starts talking about platforms as infrastructure. It getting readily apparent for everyone that the centralized monopoly by a single large entity to regular control and profit off of these platforms doesn’t work. I can’t work profitability and the power imbalances cause issues. I am surprised they don’t talk about open source or regulation. We should treat all social media platforms like we do email with a standard technical method that completely interconnects with any sources. Like we are doing here in the fediverse
I think social platforms should be allowed to regulate who they allow on their platforms. It is similar to not allowing a naked person to eat at a restaurant. As long as it isn’t a protected group that they are dismissing, it should be allowed.
I do think sex work should be legalized but I don’t think businesses should have to cater to that industry. Currently, you can choose to not let smoking products advertise on your website. I also think it is difficult to argue that social media is essential infrastructure. A person can easily live in our current society without it.i remember times, when we encouraged women to get out of selling their bodies instead of celebrating it and tell our daughters as a society that it’s fine to do a few years of onlyfans and porn. i miss those times.
also, not technology.
Many people sell their bodies which we celebrate. Construction, heavy labor, mining etc. are regular people who sell their body for their living and they are all protected and regulated. We celebrate selling your body every time we watch sports for these athletes who entertain us. Every Sunday most of the US celebrates men who sell their body on the football field for our entertainment. Why is selling nude any different?
Yeah, I saw that south park episode too.
I haven’t. But the point still stands
I guess the difference is selling your body because you have no choice vs selling your body because it’s a safe well paying alternative to being exploited in ways you have no control over.
sure buddy, being a prostitute is the safest way for a women to have her body and soul exploited AND it’s very well paid, i guess most of them are just doing it wrong. dig your forced anticapitalist comment, really.
OnlyFans models are sex workers too, for instance. Maybe your view of what a sex worker is is a bit outdated?
can’t wait for them to realize 10yrs later that they will never wipe their “content” from the web again.
So here is the thing, why is it a problem or not if I was to post my naked ass online and it never got wiped off?
It would only be an issue if say governments and people like you decide to shame or prosecute me for it.
If we were to make it safe then it would not matter would it?
Maybe they don’t feel shame about their bodies, so that won’t bother them.
look, i get it, i’m the bad guy here, society moved on, etc - but unlike most of you i actually know woment who felt down this rabbit hole. i know women who thought they can just hustle low key “services” als independents on the side, poaching clients via social media, private ads and whatsapp. one of them got roughed up by a pimp for “not paying the fee”, got roughed up a second time for talking to the cops and guess what happend, when she wanted to quit and refused to work for said pimp and his wider sex trafficking organisation? or another one who thought it would be easy money to do some onlyfans shootings until she got doxxed, catched a stalker and had to move.
and if you think legal prostitution is any better, think again. have you never wondered why the “girls” in brothels are mostly foreign women? human trafficking is a thing. it’s slavery. always was, always will be.
but yeah, let’s gaslight young women to prostitute themselves to several degrees under the disguise of “body positivity” and “freedom”.
Why would you have a pimp for an OnlyFans account?
