Business Attacks

A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame.

YouTube removed on Wednesday an episode of the “Holly Randall Unfiltered” industry podcast, an interview with Reason magazine journalist Elizabeth Nolan Brown debunking myths spread by anti-sex work activists, mainstream media and politicians about sex trafficking.

In recent weeks, a new campaign to push back against the anti-sexual expression rhetoric of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has emerged online. Dubbed “Expose NCOSE” by its co-founder, who goes by “John Smith” and carefully guards against being doxxed, the campaign’s participants…

Free Speech Coalition is meeting with members of Congress this week in an effort to combat the financial discrimination faced by adult businesses.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) sent a joint letter to Reddit demanding that the platform remove and censor thousands of subreddits hosting hundreds of millions of NSFW images, GIFs, and videos that are otherwise legally produced by consenting adults. NCOSE’s letter w…

FSC has launched a reporting tool for adult workers and businesses to log incidents of social media censorship. The submission form asks for basic information, such as the account name and platform, the approximate date of the loss and any reasons given. As more people use it, the FSC Reporting Tool

It’s also removing old content that’s not tied to an account.

The adult industry trade group, Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has shared a new report – “Financial Discrimination and the Adult Industry” – which found that an overwhelming majority of adult industry workers have lost a bank account or financial tool due to their source of income. The report follows a…

Access to banking services is a basic necessity in our society and adult industry members experience financial discrimination at alarming rates. The upshot is that already stigmatized and marginalized workers and businesses lose control of their own finances, subjecting them to extreme risk of explo…