Projects like this show that sex workers are not waiting for permission.
They are building, leading, and shaping the future of the industry.
Projects like this show that sex workers are not waiting for permission.
They are building, leading, and shaping the future of the industry.
The larger story is that sex workers continue to build alternatives whenever mainstream platforms fail, censor, or financially shut them out.
These innovations push the creator economy forward.
The larger story is that sex workers continue to build alternatives whenever mainstream platforms fail, censor, or financially shut them out.
These innovations push the creator economy forward.
When people outside the industry create the rules, the policies often overlook safety, privacy, autonomy, identity protection, and financial security.
Platforms built from within tend to prioritize these needs.
When people outside the industry create the rules, the policies often overlook safety, privacy, autonomy, identity protection, and financial security.
Platforms built from within tend to prioritize these needs.
It is focused on giving creators better revenue splits, clearer rules, more control over their work, and a structure that reflects how adult work truly functions when sex workers are involved in leadership.
It is focused on giving creators better revenue splits, clearer rules, more control over their work, and a structure that reflects how adult work truly functions when sex workers are involved in leadership.
This includes financial discrimination, high fees, unclear moderation, and sudden policy changes that put creators at risk.
This includes financial discrimination, high fees, unclear moderation, and sudden policy changes that put creators at risk.
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But safety tools should be transparent, evidence-based, and designed with creators’ input.
Background checks introduce new risks, so the community has valid questions about how this will be handled.
But safety tools should be transparent, evidence-based, and designed with creators’ input.
Background checks introduce new risks, so the community has valid questions about how this will be handled.
Background checks disproportionately impact people from marginalized communities who are more likely to have encounters with the legal system for reasons that have nothing to do with safety.
A “safety tool” can end up becoming a filter based on systemic bias.
Background checks disproportionately impact people from marginalized communities who are more likely to have encounters with the legal system for reasons that have nothing to do with safety.
A “safety tool” can end up becoming a filter based on systemic bias.
A leaked ID selfie is harmful, but a leaked background check report includes old addresses, legal details, and other sensitive information that can be used to stalk, doxx, or intimidate creators.
This is a much bigger pool of data.
A leaked ID selfie is harmful, but a leaked background check report includes old addresses, legal details, and other sensitive information that can be used to stalk, doxx, or intimidate creators.
This is a much bigger pool of data.
A background check can reveal past arrests, dismissed charges, nonviolent infractions, or outdated legal situations that have nothing to do with a person’s ability to safely create content.
It turns the platform into a gatekeeper of people’s past.
A background check can reveal past arrests, dismissed charges, nonviolent infractions, or outdated legal situations that have nothing to do with a person’s ability to safely create content.
It turns the platform into a gatekeeper of people’s past.
“Are you over 18 and is this ID legitimate?”
A background check pulls something else entirely including legal history, address history, court records, and other data that creators did not have to disclose before.
“Are you over 18 and is this ID legitimate?”
A background check pulls something else entirely including legal history, address history, court records, and other data that creators did not have to disclose before.
Uploading IDs, facial scans, age verification, live-scan selfies, and consent confirmations are all part of the process.
Background checks bring in a new layer that works very differently.
Uploading IDs, facial scans, age verification, live-scan selfies, and consent confirmations are all part of the process.
Background checks bring in a new layer that works very differently.