Published 21 August 2021 at 08.22
Abroad. It's not just conservative news sites that banks are shutting down. Now the financial giants are forcing the site Only Fans to ban sexual content, which will apply from October.
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The decision, which puts an end to the material that has made the platform popular, is now being compared to the banks forcing McDonalds to stop selling burgers.
The background, according to Newsweek, is new terms from the banking sector's payment system Mastercard, which forces financial companies that provide access to credit card systems to ensure that those who sell pornographic content online have a number of monitoring procedures in place.
Mastercard's decision was lobbied according to Newsweek through the Christian conservative group NCOSE, or Morality in Media as it was formerly called.
The group has ventured into paid & shy; pornographic sites, often under the pretext of working against human trafficking and abuse.
& ndash; They have been lobbyed by anti-porn interests, which are usually an unusual alliance of radical feminists and fundamentalist Christians, who are simply against pornography, Myles Jackman, a lawyer with obscenity and pornography, told Newsweek.
< What effects the decision will have on unemployment among women, not least in Eastern Europe, remains to be seen. Only Fans today has two million content creators who together have earned over SEK 40 billion via the platform over the years.
According to Tech Radar, Only Fans is only the latest in a long line of online platforms that restrict and ban pornographic content. over the last decade.
“The Internet, too, has changed over time, and is increasingly shaped by a handful of colossal companies in the content, service and finance industries rather than by content creators and consumers”; states Tech Radar.