Those ideas don’t really solve this problem though. Advertisers and payment processors would just not service these “adult content” sites. So all the popular sites wouldn’t allow adult content.
Somebody, sure. There’s advertisers on porn sites. Just not the same ones on all the other sites, and they don’t pay the same. It’s a different market. Any company for whom all-ages content is a significant part of their product is gonna want the non-porn advertisers
Several adult friendly platforms have come and gone. Many of them very profitable and self sustaining. They all eventually get screwed by inability to process payments.
And when people try to create their own payment methods not subject to arbitrary morality rules, the full weight of the existing banking system comes down hard and strangles them in the cradle.
We could absolutely have safe, profitable, self sustaining adult friendly spaces, but the powers that be don’t want that to exist and work hard to undermine that from every possible angle.
It’s really no different than all those efforts to ban local fiber ISP coops or how abortion clinics get shut down by arbitrary full hospital regulations because they couldn’t ban them legally.
Those ideas don’t really solve this problem though. Advertisers and payment processors would just not service these “adult content” sites. So all the popular sites wouldn’t allow adult content.
somebody would fill that gap. there’s a market there, so somebody will see the opportunity to make money when there’s no competition
Somebody, sure. There’s advertisers on porn sites. Just not the same ones on all the other sites, and they don’t pay the same. It’s a different market. Any company for whom all-ages content is a significant part of their product is gonna want the non-porn advertisers
And network effects would ensure 95% of users stay on TikTok/YouTube/Instagram/…
Several adult friendly platforms have come and gone. Many of them very profitable and self sustaining. They all eventually get screwed by inability to process payments.
And when people try to create their own payment methods not subject to arbitrary morality rules, the full weight of the existing banking system comes down hard and strangles them in the cradle.
We could absolutely have safe, profitable, self sustaining adult friendly spaces, but the powers that be don’t want that to exist and work hard to undermine that from every possible angle.
It’s really no different than all those efforts to ban local fiber ISP coops or how abortion clinics get shut down by arbitrary full hospital regulations because they couldn’t ban them legally.
Someone would get in on that niche if it was the case, guaranteed.