X has new rules that officially allow porn

Re:X has new rules that officially allow porn by dotnet00 on Monday June 03, 2024 @04:31PM (#40567206)

I'm mainly going off of the story of how IIRC a couple of years ago, PH was forced to wipe most of their site due to left-wing activists pressuring payment processors into threatening to block PH's basic means of doing business if they didn't meet the somewhat absurd demand of filtering out all harmful/unethical material.

Sure, they technically didn't use the legal system, they just used the technicality that payment processors hold the same power over internet-dependent companies as a government.

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Re:X has new rules that officially allow porn by lancesells on Monday June 03, 2024 @05:30PM (#40567773)

Looks like a NY Times article detailed they were hosting awful stuff. They then implemented a verification system. Not sure about the activists.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55304115

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Re:X has new rules that officially allow porn by seadan83 on Tuesday June 04, 2024 @06:04PM (#40579424)

Citations for which left wing activists?

In contrast, I would consider Charlie Kirk as a right-wing activist (hopefully this will work as a good example). If there were an action taken by him and similarly small group of activists, perhaps with backing from their organization - I would be very hesitant to extrapolate that action as broadly representative of "the right."

Which is to say, left wing or right wing activists might not be representative of the broader views, and also those broader views might not be consistent (not everyone on the right/left agree on everything)

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