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title: ""Last month, the millions-strong kink social network announced it was…"
date: 2017-03-08
source: facebook
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# "Last month, the millions-strong kink social network announced it was…

*March 8, 2017 · Facebook*

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[http://www.dailyxtra.stfi.re/canada/news-and-ideas/opinion/just-happened-kink-social-network-fetlife-bad-sign-web-freedom-214928?m=%2Fprivacy-policy%2Fterms-of-useprivacy-policy&sf=zxgonvj&utm_gp=1&utm_content=bufferbd659&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.WLc181niRlE.facebook](http://www.dailyxtra.stfi.re/canada/news-and-ideas/opinion/just-happened-kink-social-network-fetlife-bad-sign-web-freedom-214928?m=%2Fprivacy-policy%2Fterms-of-useprivacy-policy&sf=zxgonvj&utm_gp=1&utm_content=bufferbd659&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer#.WLc181niRlE.facebook){target="_blank"}
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\"Last month, the millions-strong kink social network announced it was tightening community guidelines to ban depictions or discussion of edgier kinks, including blood, non-consent, alcohol, cutting, and the vaguely defined "obscenity." At the same time, the network deleted thousands of photographs, groups and fetish categories without warning. The reason? Credit card companies.\"\
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\"Since a functioning merchant account is the only way the site can accept membership payments from its users, Kopanas wrote, he had no choice but to submit.\"\
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If I were FetLife, I\'d start a sister site for the \"edgier\" stuff that only took Bitcoin/Monero as payment.\
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[http://www.dailyxtra.stfi.re/canada/news-and-ideas/opinion/just-happened-kink-social-network-fetlife-bad-sign-web-freedom-214928](http://www.dailyxtra.stfi.re/canada/news-and-ideas/opinion/just-happened-kink-social-network-fetlife-bad-sign-web-freedom-214928){target="_blank"}
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