Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone

Re:Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone by qdot76367 on Monday December 28, 2020 @03:35PM (#25562921)

Thanks! This is why I say the project is as much social as it is technical. The technical topics are definitely important, but the project as a whole invites scrutiny not just from developers, security engineers, etc, but also from those interested in or critical of how consent and control work in technical means, what it means to be intimate over remote mediums, etc...

As an example, one of the things I was working on right before COVID-19 hit was a book chapter on digital proxemics, i.e. how we map and relate personal space in digital realms. This project and how it's been utilized to augment online intimacy was a big part of that, and I turned in the book chapter to the publisher the week COVID-19 lockdowns started to hit in the US (still no pub date tho :( ), so it's been a lot of seeing how those ideas play out in large scale since.

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Re:Buttplug (Sex Toy Control Library) Hits v1 Milestone by cdnpal on Monday December 28, 2020 @08:26PM (#25565568)

Hi, I commented on the last YCombinator post you did. I had created an Ethereum based library on Github for the Lovense and created the now defunct Porntoken on the Ethereum blockchain. I find that the industry is being steered away from UGC. If you look at how Visa/Mastercard cracked down on Pornhub recently, it's a big example of this. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/10/business/visa-mastercard-... How do you see this succeeding where UGC for adult content is headed in the other direction at this time? OnlyFans?

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