I am almost 100% with this article and would often go even further, and I absolutely agree that marginalized people are going to be disproportionately affected.

I am almost 100% with this article and would often go even further, and I absolutely agree that marginalized people are going to be disproportionately affected. However, there are a couple assertions that seemed a bit dubious. For example: > Danielle Blunt, a queer-identified sex worker with a master's in Public Health who’s spent time observing the phenomenon, notes that she’s seen Instagram ban hashtags like #femdom and even #women—while #maledom remains available. I’m not exactly a porn or sex work connoisseur, but my immediate first thought is that I’ve actually heard the term “femdom” but never maledom. Of course, that could just be a lack of understanding on my part, but at least a cursory search seems to agree: femdom is a dramatically more popular term. I searched both on Google (which is a nice thing to have sitting in my search history, I’m sure) and moved a couple pages back to hopefully grab a more accurate result count, and got the measure 1,880,000,000/22,200,000 = 84x more popular. Exactly why is unclear, but my guess is that maledom is more often lumped into the larger BDSM umbrella and not distinguished. I suspect many popular BDSM terms that are not gendered are also blocked. Of course, I could be wrong. I don’t have an instagram account, so I can’t verify how often these terms are used on such websites even if I wanted to. Still, it goes on to continue draw this sex puritanism as being firmly gendered, but I think that this is not a result of Silicon Valley’s weird obsession with puritanism. Rather, the reason why some non-explicit sexual content is allowed and other non-explicit sexual content is not runs a lot deeper than just SV companies, and is the result of the general culture we have for what is “safe” and what is not safe. This is definitely 100% for sure biased, but that was never not the case, and certainly not an invention of Twitter or Instagram. Tumblr’s infamous “female-presenting nipples” line definitely is insultingly stupid, but its insulting stupidity rooted in deep American traditions of having double-standards. If you disregard our bizarre cultural inequities regarding what sexual content is “safe”, what remains is a very clear issue: payment processors and advertisers (and some other gatekeepers, like the App Store) yield immense control over the entire modern Internet. I don’t even think it’s necessarily an issue with Silicon Valley specifically. I was really hoping cryptocurrency would help provide a balance, but instead it looks like the primary function of cryptocurrency is to launder money and provide another place to gamble. Unfortunate, but oh well.