I’ve worked at a VC-backed social media app and currently work for a privately owned porn company. SV has the dumbest double standards about sex and nudity. Ju

I’ve worked at a VC-backed social media app and currently work for a privately owned porn company. SV has the dumbest double standards about sex and nudity. Just colossally dumb. There’s a few forces at work that the article doesn’t dig into - 1/ VCs get their money from LPs. LPs are orgs like university trusts and pension funds. Those LPs demand “morality clauses” that limit what VCs can invest in. And VCs give it to them. 2/ Google starting 2018-ish began to cave to advertiser pressure about nudity. They passed that pressure down to their different business. Now YouTube, AdWords, Adsense, etc all must ensure ad content is never shown next to nudity. Those business teams rolled out this missive in the most bungled way possible. False positives be damned, the ad dollars must flow. This leads to startups being squeezed on both sides - investors can’t be seen supporting sex and ad platforms salt the earth anywhere an adult word might be uttered. So as a social media platform, you pretend it doesn’t exist (Reddit, Instagram), you quarantine it (Twitch), or you mass-deplatform and cross your fingers (YouTube, Snapchat). I don’t know what the answer is for those products, but I feel like we could do better.