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by hvdijk 1767 days ago
"So what?" as a response to a post explaining how a policy puts certain people at risk, regardless of what the policy is and who those certain people are, makes how you view those people quite a lot clearer than you may have intended.
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zdragnar 1767 days ago
The person I responded to implied that the arguments in favor of consent verification were made in bad faith because some people might also oppose porn in general.

It is a logical fallacy. The risk of de-anonymization doesn't go away because their consent wasn't verified- tattoos, birthmarks, backgrounds of images and video, etc are still there.

Not only that, but that same risk still applies to people whose videos were posted without consent. What's worse than being raped and having your video put online? Knowing that everyone you ever work with may have seen it, for the rest of your life.

Also, if you read the article the post attached, it literally opens with a woman who had to impersonate a lawyer to get porn of her taken off of pornhub.

"How I view those people" seems to be your imagination, not mine.

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neolog 1767 days ago
Context and quantification are needed, not sensationalism. Yes there are real accounts of abuse. The problem is that the policies adopted aren't actually directed at solving those problems with minimum harm to people involved; they are directed at eliminating sex work.

How many problems occur, what kind, what protocols would address the problems without needlessly harming performers and consumers?

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concordDance 1766 days ago
> What's worse than being raped and having your video put online? Knowing that everyone you ever work with may have seen it, for the rest of your life.

There's no mechanism I can imagine that would make this situation true. HOW would everyone have seen it? Are you aware of just how many porn videos/pictures there are in the world?

You'd be well served to post a stat for how many people have had their coworkers see their rape videos, I'd bet $$$ that it's a negligible number compared to the livelihood issues suffered by onlyfans removing all those creators.

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