RE: New Rules
In post 23, I linked a thread from adultdvdtalk forum, that was started in late 2012, and said: "However, credit card companies' being instrumental in censoring adult material is not unprecedented".
Back then, it was what some might view as "extreme" material, that was being targeted, and there was no broader public fanfare.
But not many years later, attempts were made in Britain, to outlaw some "extreme" acts, which were mostly involving women being dominant.
However, as the link I posted in 17 indicates, that law was later overturned.
Nonetheless, in post 23 I also said, that what started at the turn of this year, is a "wider attack on porn, including soft 'porn'/glamour material".
Hence, credit card companies have formalised a position as arbiters of the web, in a way that few governments, and state agencies have managed.
Not even in Britain, which is probably the most censored 'liberal democracy'.
Jerry Barnett, an anti-censorship campaigner, who had worked in the UK porn industry for a couple of decades, and was a formal representative of it, for some of that time, wrote about the differences between the UK and US.
The major difference being the latter's constitutional restrictions on censorship.
Meaning the response to censorship in Britain, by producers of adult material, has been less coordinated and consistent.
Indeed, Barnett said some porn producers were happy with restrictions, because it protected their position in the market, which more openness would have undermined.
Alongside competition between producers, that meant at the very least, they weren't necessarily bothered about others' going out of business.
Hence, in Britain, as with the laws that were enacted, then overturned in recent years, any consistent opposition to the credit card rules, is likely to be dependent on the combined efforts of individual workers, and the wider public.
No such sustained opposition to OFCOM exists, and this is a much taller order.
Even in the US, there's been no place for complacency, as laws passed in the name of addressing a very elastically defined 'trafficking', were the first major achievement of the renewed crusade against anything remotely considered adult material.
The hourglass is half-emptying..
"From one who is not permitted to find fault, [says the peasant representative] praise also is valueless; in absence of expression it is like a Chinese picture in which shade is lacking. [CW, Vol. 1, P. 1801 Marx cites this spokesman from the lower classes because his emphasis on opposites is pure dialectics: extremes can paint a picture, whereas compromise can only paint in grey." https://www.militantesthetix.co.uk/critl...ewrite.htm
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I should add (24/12/2023) that I am still more extensively shadowbanned than I've ever been, despite paying for a blue tick for several months, see my pinned thread, profile and header pics
https://twitter.com/midriffique/status/1...5463673857
https://en.internationalism.org/content/...ationalism
http://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2023-...-the-class
29/10/2024: because of my being locked out of my original account, I'm using seducedx6_live on Twitter/'x', see the pinned thread there.
I'm using a friend's account, midriffique, a tweet from which is already linked above, with whom I did do three-way tag team tweeting, whilst he's taking a longterm break from social media.
"An airbag saved my life".. https://x.com/airbag_generate/with_replies
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