All the Social Media ‘Algospeak’ You Don’t Understand
Social media users are inventing new words to outsmart punitive content moderation systems.
lifehacker.com
Models on SextPanther, a Sexting Site, Banned From Sending Sexts
Models on SextPanther, a Sexting Site, Banned From Sending Sexts
The sexting crackdown by the company that hosted SextPanther’s service seems to be yet another attack on the sex work industry.
www.vice.com
Snapchat Appoints Anti-Porn NCOSE Activist to Safety Board
Snapchat Appoints Anti-Porn NCOSE Activist to Safety Board
Religiously motivated anti-porn and anti-sex-work group NCOSE — formerly Morality in Media — announced today that one of its lead staffers has been appointed to the safety board of Snap, the company behind social media platform Snapchat.
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Google Researchers Continue Targeting Adult Content for Censorship
Google Researchers Continue Targeting Adult Content for Censorship
In a new paper, Google researchers continue to classify explicit sexual material in the same category as “fake, hateful, or harmful content” that requires filtering.
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Wells Fargo Closed My Account for Being a Porn Star—and It’s Time to Fight Back
Wells Fargo Closed My Account for Being a Porn Star
Porn star Alana Evans’ video went viral describing how her bank closed her account because she’s a legal sex worker. Here, she writes about why we must all push back.
www.thedailybeast.com
Visa, Mastercard Suspend Services for MindGeek’s TrafficJunky
Visa, Mastercard Suspend Services for MindGeek’s TrafficJunky AVN
Both Visa and Mastercard on Thursday suspended services for Pornhub parent company MindGeek's advertising network, TrafficJunky, until further notice.
avn.com
Woman’s husband fired from family business after they find out she’s an ex-porn star
Woman’s hubby fired from family firm after they hear she’s an ex-adult actress
After Travis’s family found out about Channon Rose’s past, they fired him from his job at the family business when he refused to leave her - but the couple turned their misfortune into something amazing
www.mirror.co.uk
Former Adult Performer Awarded $1.7M in Discrimination Lawsuit
Former Adult Performer Awarded $1.7M in Discrimination Lawsuit
An Oregon jury has awarded more than $1.7 million to Nicole Gililland, a former nursing student who sued her school for discriminating against her because of her adult performer past.
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Romi Chase Story of ‘Sexy Job’ Discrimination Picked Up by New York Post
My landlord shamed my sexy job — then more than doubled my rent
“It’s a legal job, I’m paying taxes, I have registered as a small business. I wasn’t going to waste my time trying to explain myself,” the shocked renter said.
nypost.com
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It Sucks – but it’s Not a 1st Amendment Violation
It Sucks – but it’s Not a 1st Amendment Violation
In a dispatch from deepest Shadowbanistan, Ben Suroeste says while getting deplatformed sucks, it’s not a violation of the First Amendment.
www.ynot.com