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> So when is someone going to start a Sex-Positive Blogging Platform? These communities have always been marginalized by generic hosters - why not make one dedi

> So when is someone going to start a Sex-Positive Blogging Platform? These communities have always been marginalized by generic hosters - why not make one dedicated to the content? Ohhh, right..... the advertisers. It's impossible to do that legally anymore, because these platforms will always be used by people who do sex work (whether or not they are using the platform for sex work). As of March of this year, the criminal liabilities are so massive that there's no way to operate a sex-positive platform at scale. That's why we're seeing Tumblr and (as of yesterday) Facebook move towards these draconian anti-sex policies.

ssijak 8y ago
You know that you can run and host websites from outside of US, right?
- chimeracoder 8y ago
  > You know that you can run and host websites from outside of US, right? The liability that FOSTA and SESTA impose is very "contagious" - it applies not just to the people running the website (e.g. Tumblr) but can extend to anyone that does business with them as well, if that business is deemed necessary enough to the core function of the site. It'd be very difficult to run any sort of sex-positive blogging platform at scale without, at some point, doing business with someone who has enough of a presence in the US to be exposed to liability under FOSTA and SESTA. Even Cloudflare had to terminate the account used by Switter, a Mastodon instance for sex workers, because of FOSTA.
  - drdeadringer 8y ago
    > It'd be very difficult to run any sort of sex-positive blogging platform at scale without, at some point, doing business with someone who has enough of a presence in the US to be exposed to liability under FOSTA and SESTA. What happened when you tried?
    - chimeracoder 8y ago
      > What happened when you tried? What is the point of snarky comments like this? If you (wrongly) think I have no idea what I'm talking about, say so. If you actually want to know more why this would be legally difficult, ask. Comments like these are against the HN guidelines[0] for a reason. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

ssijak 8y ago

You know that you can run and host websites from outside of US, right?

chimeracoder 8y ago
> You know that you can run and host websites from outside of US, right? The liability that FOSTA and SESTA impose is very "contagious" - it applies not just to the people running the website (e.g. Tumblr) but can extend to anyone that does business with them as well, if that business is deemed necessary enough to the core function of the site. It'd be very difficult to run any sort of sex-positive blogging platform at scale without, at some point, doing business with someone who has enough of a presence in the US to be exposed to liability under FOSTA and SESTA. Even Cloudflare had to terminate the account used by Switter, a Mastodon instance for sex workers, because of FOSTA.
- drdeadringer 8y ago
  > It'd be very difficult to run any sort of sex-positive blogging platform at scale without, at some point, doing business with someone who has enough of a presence in the US to be exposed to liability under FOSTA and SESTA. What happened when you tried?
  - chimeracoder 8y ago
    > What happened when you tried? What is the point of snarky comments like this? If you (wrongly) think I have no idea what I'm talking about, say so. If you actually want to know more why this would be legally difficult, ask. Comments like these are against the HN guidelines[0] for a reason. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html