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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by ballenf on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:45PM (#24299964)
At least you'd have due process and couldn't be deplatformed for legal activity. Now you have neither.

The current system has zero privacy, so no change there.

Not seeing the downside.

Federally illegal activity like marijuana wouldn't benefit, but most things would.

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by orangecat on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:13PM (#24300128)
At least you'd have due process and couldn't be deplatformed for legal activity.

The feds are very much into deplatforming people for legal activity, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:57PM (#24300035)
Technically, any occurring "federally illegal" activity is just not successfully policed criminal activity. (States can't actually make something legal the federal government says is not legal. They can just decline to use their own resources to police it.)

Generally speaking, most people would consider "not usable in crime" to be a feature rather than a bug. ;)

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by sneak on Thursday August 27, 2020 @09:51PM (#24300623)
I don’t think there is as quite widespread consensus that all federal crimes are legitimately crime as you seem to think.

Marijuana sales, for example, seem extremely popular.

Just because there’s a law in place at some remote level of jurisdiction doesn’t mean it’s just, or has popular support.

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by ocdtrekkie on Thursday August 27, 2020 @10:20PM (#24300786)
Widespread consensus doesn't determine what is and isn't a crime. The law does. Until the federal law changes, marijuana sales are a federal crime. Technically speaking, no state can actually "legalize" it.
Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by sneak on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:51PM (#24301196)
You’re absolutely right, of course.

Widespread consensus heavily influences prosecutorial discretion though, which determines in practice what is or isn’t permitted by society.

The law is not a computer program, and it is applied entirely arbitrarily.

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by rumanator on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:08AM (#24301830)
> I don’t think there is as quite widespread consensus that all federal crimes are legitimately crime as you seem to think.

Your comment makes no sense at all. For something to be a crime it has to be explicitly defined in law. Consensus has zero to do with it. Either there is a law, or there isn't. The whole point of rule of law is that you don't get to pick and choose which law applies to you in a given day of the week.

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by krageon on Friday August 28, 2020 @09:36AM (#24304644)
> The whole point of rule of law is that you don't get to pick and choose which law applies to you in a given day of the week.

If the law is not enforced, then it does not exist. The only real law is the one that you see day-to-day. So shooting black people is fine (in the US), and you can buy weed in shops (in a few places).

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by sneak on Friday August 28, 2020 @06:44AM (#24303387)
There are many marijuana shops in the United States, and many millions of customers of those shops who disagree with you.

Also, Prohibition.

The law is not some inviolate thing in a society. Many millions will happily ignore unjust laws if they feel they shouldn’t be laws. More alcohol was consumed during Prohibition in the US than before it was banned.

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by rumanator on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:02AM (#24301799)
> At least you'd have due process and couldn't be deplatformed for legal activity. Now you have neither.

I don't understand your train of thought. I mean, you are arguing for a monopoly controlling a centralized service just because one of the many freely available payment platforms you personally choosed may have terms of service you might break?

How is that a solution?

It seems you are not arguing for a solution to the problem you framed. You're instead confusing wishful thinking with a solution to the problem. I mean, your suggestions don't even qualify as unintended consequences: they are only unrealistic and absurd expectations from a reform that has absolutely no relation to the problem.