Business Attacks

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…

A Delaware Chancery Court consolidated on Monday three separate stockholder lawsuits aiming to hold Visa liable for the supposed monetization of alleged user-generated CSAM content posted to MindGeek tube sites.

Bloomberg published a report today about how adult performers and content creators have become “collateral damage” in the campaign to create liability for online platforms over user generated content.

SpankPay, an online crypto payment service targeted at the adult industry, informed its customers and supporters today that it’s permanently shutting down services due to a hostile banking environment. The company ran into troubles with service provider Wyre after that company switched payment proce…

Six months after suspending two religious “porn surveillance” apps following a Wired magazine report exposing them as spyware, Google Play has quietly reinstated Covenant Eyes and Accountable2You on March 1st.

Adult stars and sex workers say Instagram unfairly patrols their accounts while letting celebrities dodge the same rules.

Meta’s Oversight Board — a panel of experts selected by the company to deliberate on content decisions — released a decision this week recommending the company clarify arbitrary and vague definitions concerning nudity, sexual activity and sexual solicitation.

Twitter “permanently suspended” the Pineapple Support account over the weekend, founder Leya Tanit reported through her personal account.

After backlash from artists whose work has been unknowingly used to train AI models, Kickstarter updated its policies.

FSC staff this week met with key House and Senate offices in a series of meetings discussing banking discrimination against the adult industry.