I hope Radley stays here. I think the Substack folks have their policy right.
To clarify, the Substack folks almost certainly don't believe that porn is less acceptable than Nazis. The problem, as anyone who works for a site that allows photo sharing will tell you, (even setting aside the fact that Stripe, their payments provider, won't s…
I hope Radley stays here. I think the Substack folks have their policy right.
To clarify, the Substack folks almost certainly don't believe that porn is less acceptable than Nazis. The problem, as anyone who works for a site that allows photo sharing will tell you, (even setting aside the fact that Stripe, their payments provider, won't support sites that allow porn) is that hosting porn requires significant cost investments (in both systems and personnel) to make sure that you're not allowing porn featuring underage participants or porn posted without full consent of all parties involved.
One of the things that really annoyed me about the Substack Against Nazis letter is that they wrote it in such a way to deliberately give the false impression that Substack's policy was aimed at censoring sex workers rather than prohibiting porn. Here is the relevant section Substack's actual policy (https://substack.com/content):
"Nudity, porn, erotica
We don’t allow porn or sexually exploitative content on Substack, including any visual depictions of sexual acts for the sole purpose of sexual gratification. We do allow depictions of nudity for artistic, journalistic, or related purposes, as well as erotic literature, however, we have a strict no nudity policy for profile images. We may hide or remove explicit content from Substack’s discovery features, including search and on Substack.com."
I hope Radley stays here. I think the Substack folks have their policy right.
To clarify, the Substack folks almost certainly don't believe that porn is less acceptable than Nazis. The problem, as anyone who works for a site that allows photo sharing will tell you, (even setting aside the fact that Stripe, their payments provider, won't support sites that allow porn) is that hosting porn requires significant cost investments (in both systems and personnel) to make sure that you're not allowing porn featuring underage participants or porn posted without full consent of all parties involved.
One of the things that really annoyed me about the Substack Against Nazis letter is that they wrote it in such a way to deliberately give the false impression that Substack's policy was aimed at censoring sex workers rather than prohibiting porn. Here is the relevant section Substack's actual policy (https://substack.com/content):
"Nudity, porn, erotica
We don’t allow porn or sexually exploitative content on Substack, including any visual depictions of sexual acts for the sole purpose of sexual gratification. We do allow depictions of nudity for artistic, journalistic, or related purposes, as well as erotic literature, however, we have a strict no nudity policy for profile images. We may hide or remove explicit content from Substack’s discovery features, including search and on Substack.com."