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I looked at a number of comments, and while I can understand their position, substack seem to actively remove articles by sex workers. If this is true, how are
by chris_wot 3y ago
I looked at a number of comments, and while I can understand their position, substack seem to actively remove articles by sex workers.
If this is true, how are sex workers considered to be worse than Nazis?
- gnat 3y agoPayment processors enforce the ban on paying sex workers whereas they do not ban paying Nazis.
- josefritz 3y agoThat's an interesting but highly distressing paradigm.
- HideousKojima 3y agoDo you have any examples? And was being a sex worker the actual reason given, or was it something specific about the content they were posting?
- chris_wot 3y agoI was going on the comments made. They appear to be talking about any sex worker who posts about their work or issues around sex work. I’m trying to find out if this is the reality. Apologies if it is not, but there are more than a few people commenting on it.
- throwawa14223 3y agoMy understanding is that sex work opens you up to a pretty extreme levels of liability in the USA. That may be the whole of the issue
- cowpig 3y agoNazis make them money, sex workers lose them money. ~~Free~~ Monetized speech.
- throwawa14223 3y agoYou are correct. Government regulation has resulted in less free speech, but that's hardly Substack's fault.
- anonymousab 3y agoSubstack's claim and argument is about free speech, though. Not "free speech, but".
- chris_wot 3y agoBut payment processors won’t penalize you for promoting Nazism? I do understand that this may not be the fault of Substack, but they could clear this all up by noting why they have to make an exception. Perhaps they do and I haven’t seen it?
- throwawa14223 3y agoI was under the impression it started in line with the USA passing FOSTA. This could be spurious correlation on my part though.
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- porkbeer 3y agoBecause we rebranded sex work as human trafficking
- timeon 3y agoPeople who are giving platform to Nazis - do not have problem with them. For some reason this is often case with free speech absolutists: they are eager to be devil's advocates while banning harmless things.