Business Attacks

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.

Social media users are inventing new words to outsmart punitive content moderation systems.

The sexting crackdown by the company that hosted SextPanther’s service seems to be yet another attack on the sex work industry.

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.