In an attempt to capture secure the place as the dominant website for grumble blogging, OnlyFans has been flagging performers for other websites as terrorists.
If you look at the history of Facebook, Google, PayPal, Apple, Amazon, PayPal, etc., it is clear that their successes have been as a result of anti-competitive behavior that not only violates regulations, but violates criminal statutes and can result in arrest and criminal charges.
It's time that they did this. The problem is not just lax antitrust over the past 50 years, it is that big business has been able to engage in crime with impunity:
It feels like every time we turn around there is some new, terrifying information coming out about mega-corporations involving themselves in our personal lives. Whether it is Amazon trying to buy Roomba to make sure they know what we are doing at all times or Meta/Facebook handing over private Facebook messages for an abortion investigation, it all feels a little violating.
Well, here comes another doozy. This time, it is a lawsuit filed against OnlyFans and Meta/Facebook. Usually, OnlyFans appears in the news because of an issue related to pornography use or sex workers’ rights. But this lawsuit concerns social media power and capitalism—and their threat to humanity.
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There is technically more than one lawsuit going against OnlyFans and Meta right now, but they fall under the same umbrella. Adult Performing Artists Guild (which represents several adult entertainers who used OnlyFans, along with other adult content sites) and rival OnlyFans companies, JustForFans and FanCentro, have all filed lawsuits. All the cases center on one allegation—OnlyFans bribed Meta employees to put some adult entertainers on a terrorist watch list.
The allegations say OnlyFans bribed Meta employees to put roughly 20,000 names (and their corresponding social media accounts) on a terrorist watch list. Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube founded the specific watch group in 2017. The non-profit, known as Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism (GIFCT), is “designed to prevent terrorists and violent extremists from exploiting digital platforms.”
I just read through the complaint, and this is not exactly what they plaintiffs are alleging. This could the bribery of employees of the criminal enterprise formerly known as Facebook™, or it could be actual payments to agents of the company in exchange for these actions with the approval of corporate management, which is a far more extreme case.
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Because that all makes sense and sounds totally normal, right? Why would OnlyFans put their own creators on a terrorist list? Here we find the core problem with all of this. Allegedly, OnlyFans just listed creators who featured content on rival platforms. The one site that was immune to this backdoor banning was OnlyFans. This gave them the upper hand over their rivals because banned creators could be found solely on OnlyFans.
I'd really like to see some of the folks involved frog-marched out of their corporate headquarters in handcuffs over this.
This will not change until folks start getting arrested and jailed over this.
Full disclosure: I do not have an only fans account, nor do I plan to get one. My body is less aesthetically pleasing, and even hairier, than my writing.
You do not want to see this dad bod.
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