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by on March 18, 2024 at 10:52 am
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Porn gets banned on major internet space -> porn moves to new space -> new space gets surge of popularity usage and investors -> investors want porn gone because you can’t advertise Better Help next to hq art of the scout from team fortress 2 getting backshots -> porn gets banned there -> porn moves to new space -> new space gets surge of popularity usage and-

“#it’s all because of the puriteens”

teenagers don’t run the payment processors you stupid fucking idiots

It’s not just the advertisers- that’s definitely also part of it, but this is also the direct, targeted action of a specific christian fundamentalist group, the “National Center on Sexual Exploitation,” previously “Morality in Media” and “Operation Yorkville,” a political lobbying organization that campaigns against pornography, who claim “Pornographers are committing the biggest crimes of the century!”

Screenshot from a Slate article called "The Onlyfans Fight Isn't Over" by Kelsy Burke, which reads: In the conference session a few hours later, Laurie explained that there are two main crimes committed by pornographic websites: the crime of obscenity, meaning the distribution of any material so offensive that it is not protected by the First Amendment, and the crime of facilitating illegal activities, including sexual assault, rape, and human trafficking. “Obscenity is not now, nor has it ever been, legal in this country,” Laurie explained. “Obscenity in 2019 is as illegal as it was in 1919 and 1819, but nobody is enforcing these laws,” she told us in an exacerbated tone. “Internet pornography is a complete cesspool full of rapists and pedophiles who are documenting their crimes,” Laurie said to nodding heads. “If the laws were enforced, pornographers would be off the streets and where they deserve to be: in jail.”ALT

It was*this group specifically* (accompanied by another Christian anti-porn org, Exodus Cry) that put pressure on mastercard and visa to stop facilitating electronic payment for sites that hosted nsfw material. Faced with the risk of losing their ability to process payments, the sites partnered with visa and mastercard had no choice but to agree to porn bans.

They were behind Onlyfans flirting with banning sex workers last year, and they were one of the principle supporters of FOSTA/SESTA. I can not understate just how much influence this one well connected, well funded group has.

From their about page:

Screenshot of NCOSE's about page which reads: WHAT DOES NCOSE DO? NCOSE is the leading 501c(3) non-profit organization exposing the links between all forms of sexual abuse and exploitation. Taking down the multi-billion-dollar sexual exploitation industry is no easy feat. NCOSE has built the infrastructure that is equipped to stand toe-to-toe against the world’s pornographers, pimps/sex traffickers, sex buyers, and exploitation profiteers. With an expansive grassroots network, Research Institute, embedded litigation law firm, training team, and global coalition—paired with our cutting-edge public policy and corporate advocacy tactics—NCOSE is realizing major progress every day. Victories that used to take years are now happening within weeks! ALT

NCOSE convinced mastercard and visa to cut ties with porn not for the sake of advertisers, but because they convinced them that they could be potentially liable for facilitating illegal activity- the exchange of CSAM, prostitution and human trafficking- happening on the porn sites they were partnered with, which in NCOSE’s opinion is all porn sites, and all porn period, since they believe all porn is human trafficking.

Excerpt from "The Campaign Against Sex Work in the United States: A Successful Moral Crusade" (2020) by Ronald Weitzer which reads: A prominent abolitionist equates pornography with the trafficking of persons in an article boldly titled “Pornography as Trafficking”: In the resulting materials, these people are then conveyed and sold for a buyer’s sexual use. . . . Each time the pornography is commercially exchanged, the trafficking continues as the women and children in it are transported and provided for sex, sold, and bought again. Doing all these things for the purpose of exploiting the prostitution of others –which pornogra- phy intrinsically does –makes it trafficking in persons. (MacKinnon 2005:993) The conflation here of “materials”and “persons”is even more striking in the bizarre statement that “the pornography industry, in production, creates demand for prostitution, hence for trafficking, because it is itself a form of prostitution and trafficking”(MacKinnon 2005:1004).ALT

NCOSE has been around since the 60’s, but hasn’t seen much success until the last decade. Their previous campaigns, focused on pushing for the enforcement of obscenity laws from the 1800’s and fabricating blatantly nonfactual research about porn as a mental health crisis, were not as widely received. But they’ve had much more success since they’ve started weaponizing concern for victims of abuse and trafficking, appropriating progressive language and trading in on the white moral panic about child sex trafficking that grew directly from the “Stranger Danger” and “Satanic Ritual Abuse” moral panics of the 80’s and 90’s- both themselves the result of a right wing reactionary movement using concern trolling about the safety of children to rail against drugs, loud music, and tabletop rpgs.

Blaming the sanitization of the internet solely on the vague specter of “advertisers” ignores the real, nameable groups and their extremely straightforward christofacist goals. It promotes apathy, pointing at an ambiguous target that feels as impossible to combat as the machine of capitalism itself. When it’s literally just these specific guys, and like two or three similar, equally identifiable organizations!

I’m not saying sites like facebook don’t have a vested interest in looking squeaky clean and family friendly, but tumblr, pornhub, onlyfans, patreon and gumroad did not move to ban porn because of advertising. Tumblr has never attracted the kind of advertisers who care, and pornhub, onlyfans, patreon and gumroad don’t make the bulk of their money from ads, but from user transactions, which MUST be facilitated by an electronic banking platform in order to be safe and reliable.

Tumblr’s porn ban was due to FOSTA/SESTA meaning the could not continue operating unless they either dumped nsfw content or went adults only and implemented costly and draconian age verification protocols that, frankly, no one was going to put up with for a mediocre blogging platform. The others folded under pressure from the electronic banking platforms, which threatened to drop them as partners due to the pressure *they* were under from NCOSE weaponizing public opinion to create a flurry of anger and condemnation towards these companies “facilitating human trafficking.”

The enemy is not hiding, we know their names! They come not in the name of capitalism (who merely rides their coattails when convenient) but in the name of puritanical Christian Fascism.

So no, it’s not the puriteens. It’s their parents and grandparents, on an open crusade to enforce Christian anti-sex beliefs on as much of the world as they can manage.

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