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When X (formerly Twitter) launched paid subscription verification, Mistress Rouge, a professional dominatrix, hoped that it would help her advertise to Sex workers bought Twitter Blue in hopes that it would protect them from being shadowbanned and deplatformed. Under X's new nudity policy, they're being censored anyway.
  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    342·
    1 year ago

    There are people who still don’t get that “XformerlyknownasTwitter” is a lost platform. And they still pay to get abused. As a dominatrix, she should be familiar with that concept.

  • alienanimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
    346·
    1 year ago

    Downvote Musk spam.

    The billionaire doesn’t need your help ensuring him and his businesses stay in the headlines every day. Don’t be a useful idiot.

    • archiotterpup@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      1 year ago

      I really hate this perspective. It pretends one can avoid Elon by not engaging with any of his companies when he has his fingers in everything. Whether or not you use his app, his actions have consequences for the masses.

      • alienanimals@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        Musk will say/do anything to say in the 24 hour news cycle.

        You’re just playing into his PR strategy. It might be a dumb one, but it’s obviously working.

      • Moogosa@lemmy.worldEnglish
        51·
        1 year ago

        You have no idea why it’s being used in the headlines and to what purpose but you keep it relevant in every circle you visit. Haha I’m surprised you didn’t just link a Reddit post that links to a X post about the subject.

  • Hirad@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    It’s an unpopular opinion, but… It’s Ironic to criticize X on porn in fediverse. The same fediverse that is obsessed with banning instances for porn. Remember Switter? An instance, made for sex workers. What happened to it? Banned by almost all major instances, forcing them to shut down. Or how Lemmy instances defeserate NSFW instance. At least X doesn’t do these shenanigans.

    P.S.: if any company is to be blamed for limitation on sexual content is Apple.

    • psychothumbs@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah it’s definitely not a twitter only problem, the internet is getting so puritanical these days. Both Apple as you mention and payment processors using their influence inappropriately bear a lot of the blame.