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TikTok accused of helping to promote sex industry to girls (cease.org.uk)
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[–] 34 points 18 hours ago (11 children)

I can't decide if this is good or bad because I need someone with self-appointed moral authority to tell me conclusively if onlyfans is feminist empowerment or capitalist enslavement first

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  • [–] 21 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

    it's capitalist enslavement

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  • [–] 18 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    OK cool I hate TikTok now thank you

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Welcome to the club, I hated it since I first heard about years ago

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  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (1 child)

    I've also hated it for ages I was just emulating the mentality of a social media addict. You know, incapable of forming original thoughts and only concerned with what things seem like, not what they are

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  • [–] 1 point 10 hours ago

    I'd never heard of it until...maybe someone shared something online about it. And the only things I'd see where the same bland girls doing the same bland dance to music clips. Then a coworker of mine (woman, maybe 30ish) shared links to some of her tiktoks and it was just her sitting in her car with a squeaky voice giving hot takes about as spicy as a banana pepper or the kind of things that get posted to UnpopularOpinion which are actually super popular opinions.

    Then the rumors started floating it was funded by the Chinese govt. Zero desire from the start, and it's remained at absolute zero since then

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  • [–] 10 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    How many women would be sex workers of any kind if they didn't have to in order to better their lives?

    A small amount to be sure, but not most of them.

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  • [–] -1 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    If I was a hot girl I would absolutely do it for fun. Too bad Im male so no random internet woman are lusting over my short underweight ass. I've always loved sending nudes to my partners over the years though.

    Either way you can bet your life I'd never use OF though holy shit imagine voluntarily getting under big tech's thumb. I'd set up my own website with an open source license.

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  • [–] 7 points 16 hours ago

    It should be noted that part of the reason for using onlyfans is that payment processors are very very touchy around porn, so if your goal was not to make money, that’s fine, but to set up a personal website that sells access to porn you’d have to go through a significant amount of payment processor approval and auditing to accept anything besides crypto

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    • [–] 39 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    TikTok is effectively selling the sex industry to girls. Our new report with Collective Shout

    Wasn’t collective shout those annoying Christian busybodies who were trying to force Steam to take down games they didn’t like?

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  • [–] 20 points 15 hours ago (1 child)

    Yes, Collective Shout applied pressure to payment processors including PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard to implement stricter rules on video game content they would allow transactions on. This lead to Steam removing several adult games from their storefront.

    Steam's rule change:

    Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 hours ago

    Christians are constantly dressing up their moralizing anti-sex, misogynistic control in faux-feminist language and selling it to liberals. They're very good at dressing it up too and using academic language, appealing pleas and dramatic claims. It keeps on working. Maybe because they were early adopters of psychology to better understand how to break people to indoctrinate them into their religion.

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    • [–] 10 points 14 hours ago

    I accuse TikTok of dumbing down generations of people.

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    [–] 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

    Why only TikTok? How is this also not Google/YouTube, Meta/IG/FB, and X were that content still thrives?

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  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    Because none of the others you mentioned have anywhere near the same grasp on the attention of today's youth like TikTok does. Those are boomer platforms at this point, making there little avenue to direct children toward sex work because there's basically no children on the platform to begin with.

    Not that they're not also problematic for a million other reasons - they absolutely are, just not for this particular reason.

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