More than a century after the artists of the Vienna Secession declared “to every age its art; to art its freedom”, the Austrian capital has found a new site for artistic expression free from censorship: the adults-only platform OnlyFans.
Vienna’s tourism board has started an account on OnlyFans – the only social network that permits depictions of nudity – in protest against platforms’ ongoing censorship of its art museums and galleries.
Censoring nude paintings from some of the greatest painters in human history is peak pearl-clutching.
It’s ironic then that just a couple months ago the news was reporting that onlyfans was going to ban adult content. They only reversed course after protests that they were banning the very people most responsible for onlyfan’s success. Turns out the owner didn’t want it to be for porn, but he earned a fortune because of it.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/19/tech/onlyfans-sexually-explicit-content-ban-intl-hnk/index.html
Any one else thought adult entertainment meant something completely different?
A lot of prohibitionist and discriminantory behaviour at the political and international level is driven by people like US right wing politicians and card and payment processors which are mostly in hock to US domestic politics..
As I’m almost certainly likely to be the only person on this site wearing a pearl necklace (I’m wearing one now) the pearl clutching analogy gets very tiresome when the entire crisis is driven by interests which are mostly male dominated. Yes, right wing wome who fit the trad wife anti-aborionist etctera model do kick up a stink under the guise of representing women and they can be very vociforous and use their positions in academia or the media ruthlessly but they don’t speak for all women.
For anyone with a general interest in the area the book “A Billion Wicked Thoughts” is as good as any a place to begin.
That’s not true at all. I won’t talk about before but the current wave of puritanism in the last 20 years is mostly driven by the progressive left. Like when the Miss World Pageant banned the bikini round or when they got rid of hostess in F1. All in the name of the “women’s dignity” even when the the women involved are against it.
Wasn’t the bikini round removed when they held the pageant in Indonesia a conservative Muslim country? What does that have to do with the progressive left? I guess a Pope in the 60s condemned one of the winners for the bikini, that must have been woke leftism at work. Feminist in the 70s and 80s did protest the bikini aspect but that was before woke was a thing and they were not the cause of it being banned.
I am not familiar with hostesses or car shows but I will say when I googled it I didn’t see very much dignity in the search results. In the end, those are private events and they can ban whatever they want. Blame the people in charge for caving if you want to blame anyone as they were the ones who made the decision. People can protest whatever they want, that doesn’t mean people have to do what they say.
That was that year but it was permanently removed since the next year
And yes, I blame the people in charge. It’s not that I care about car competitions in particular (the women that worked at that were mad.) but it’s a sign of a bigger problem, just look at what they are doing with Star Wars or Marvel for example. And it’s very clear who is behind all of this crap, you just have to pay attention to the news.
And the problem is that people can protest whatever they want. They can only if they are from certain ideologies, it’s the cancel culture. Take what they are trying to do with Christ Pratt. His sin was he didn’t support Biden. He didn’t support Trump either, he didn’t want to get involved and that was enough to be targeted.
What is odd here is how much US politics/culture/whatever you want to call it in this case is blocking normal legal things in other countries from just existing. In this case it doesn’t even matter if it’s right or left. Both have their problems. The problem is more: US vs. Austria.
From what I’ve seen of Facebook training Indians on what qualifies as nudity so they can pay them to censor things on their platform, the actual reason is likely less pearl clutching and more blind enforcement of the rules by a different culture.