[consumer451]

Wow, that seems like a sign of desperation, doesn't it?

I wonder how the other backers of the Twitter deal feel about financing pornography.

This includes Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, Barclays, MUFG, Société Générale, Mizuho Bank, BNP Paribas, and the KSA.

[SassyBird]

What a world we live in that allowing NSFW content is seen as desperation, while monetisation through ads isn’t.

[atonse]

But it does change the whole feel of a site and make it not palatable to large swaths of users. Because it's one thing if you can say "I just won't follow porn accounts" – it's a whole other thing if the feed is also algorithmic. So now there's a non-zero chance that scrolling through will result in something pornographic? For the record, I have no issue with that type of content, but there's a sense of "time and place" and having it separated.

If not properly gated (via special accounts that can be filtered out, etc, or profiles that have ratings baked in), this can become a mess very quickly.

[joseda-hg]

You have to specifically show NSFW on twitter, assuming the filter works, at worst you get the blurred edges of an image

[bcrosby95]

Yes, a world we've lived in for the past 100+ years.

[Zambyte]

What was fully funded with ads 100 years ago?

[cgh]

Radio?

[Zambyte]

Fair enough, I was thinking newspapers but they were also sold.

[consumer451]

It seems desperate because, for example, KSA is the second largest investor in X.

Porn is illegal in KSA. So this is going to get a bit awkward.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_the_Middle_East

[lancesells]

How would that matter to their investment fund? Like Twitter doesn't host undesirable things towards the middle east and religions and everything else.

[verticalscaler]

The Middle East including KSA are some of the top consumers of porn per capita, especially gay porn.

And Dubai is sin city.

They happily invest in all manner of unislamic things, it is good to be the king. How are you so naive.

[burnished]

Probably great? Looks like this will end up with better labeled risque material.

[nickthegreek]

This isnt new. Twitter has allowed adult content for a very long time.

[lifeinthevoid]

Would not be hypocritical at all, bet those execs never watch porn.