A great summary of the obscenity / sex based censorship laws in the US.
"This leads to the first wave of self-censorship. A lawyer named Paul Cambria who worked for pornographers developed the Cambria List.
This is a list of sex acts you might want to avoid showing in your porn to help ensure you’re not arrested for obscenity.
The list included super benign (and sometimes oddly specific) acts like facials, BDSM, spitting, food play, coffins, blindfolds, wax dripping, etc. It was also racist and heteronormative, recommending against bi sex, two girls sharing a dick, one girl being fingered by two men, and using trans performers.
The Cambria List recommends against white women and Black men. Not interracial. It’s specific.
This is in 2001!
The task force indicted Family Business producer, Seymour Butts. Pornographer Max Hardcore went to prison.
Today, the real choke point for online speech is payment processors. Websites are afraid payment processors will drop them if they come close to violating obscenity laws or don’t fully comply with 2257 requirements (which establish that porn performers are citizens and of age).
So that’s why Patreon kicks off pornographers and Zoom prohibits orgies and Fetlife won’t allow scat play and you can’t pretend to be a vampire while doing phone sex on Niteflirt. It’s the payment processors.
Now, why do the payment processors care? I’m assuming this is Operation Choke Point bullshit.
Violet Blue has done important and brave reporting on PayPal, Square and big banking’s war on the sex industry. No doubt payment processors are fucking sex workers because they’re prudes. But is their sex-negativity really so strong that they’re willing to give up on profits just to stick it to whores and camgirls? That I find harder to believe.
They might be stuck between a rock (customers who will complain or leave because they can’t bear to share a bank with sex workers) and a hard place (the DOJ has promised to investigate banks who serve people in fully legal but disfavored industries with Operation Choke Point)."
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/why-you-cant-flash-yo-titties-on
"This leads to the first wave of self-censorship. A lawyer named Paul Cambria who worked for pornographers developed the Cambria List.
This is a list of sex acts you might want to avoid showing in your porn to help ensure you’re not arrested for obscenity.
The list included super benign (and sometimes oddly specific) acts like facials, BDSM, spitting, food play, coffins, blindfolds, wax dripping, etc. It was also racist and heteronormative, recommending against bi sex, two girls sharing a dick, one girl being fingered by two men, and using trans performers.
The Cambria List recommends against white women and Black men. Not interracial. It’s specific.
This is in 2001!
The task force indicted Family Business producer, Seymour Butts. Pornographer Max Hardcore went to prison.
Today, the real choke point for online speech is payment processors. Websites are afraid payment processors will drop them if they come close to violating obscenity laws or don’t fully comply with 2257 requirements (which establish that porn performers are citizens and of age).
So that’s why Patreon kicks off pornographers and Zoom prohibits orgies and Fetlife won’t allow scat play and you can’t pretend to be a vampire while doing phone sex on Niteflirt. It’s the payment processors.
Now, why do the payment processors care? I’m assuming this is Operation Choke Point bullshit.
Violet Blue has done important and brave reporting on PayPal, Square and big banking’s war on the sex industry. No doubt payment processors are fucking sex workers because they’re prudes. But is their sex-negativity really so strong that they’re willing to give up on profits just to stick it to whores and camgirls? That I find harder to believe.
They might be stuck between a rock (customers who will complain or leave because they can’t bear to share a bank with sex workers) and a hard place (the DOJ has promised to investigate banks who serve people in fully legal but disfavored industries with Operation Choke Point)."
https://cathyreisenwitz.substack.com/p/why-you-cant-flash-yo-titties-on