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Patreon Is Suspending Adult Content Creators Because of Its Payment Partners (vice.com)

Some adult content creators on crowdfunding site Patreon are being suspended due to the suggestive material they produce. The platform said that they are increasing efforts to review content, due to payment processor pressure. Motherboard reports: In late 2017, Patreon expanded its adult content guidelines, to include stricter guidelines for "bestiality, incest, sexual depiction of minors, and suggestive sexual violence." At the time, it resulted in suspensions and bans of many adult content creators whose work Patreon previously permitted, but no longer fell in line with new guidelines. Now, many more adult content creators are reporting that they're experiencing a renewed wave of suspensions on the platform. Patreon's guidelines for adult content state that "all public content on your page be appropriate for all audiences," and "content with mature themes must be marked as a patron-only post." For several of these reports, Patreon warned that "implied nudity" was the reason for the suspension, where it appeared in public areas or publicly-visible patron tiers and banners. "You can't use Patreon to raise funds in order to produce pornographic material such as maintaining a website, funding the production of movies, or providing a private webcam session," the guidelines state.

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  1. Re: Middlemen should be invisible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Found the brain dead "progressive". How fucking retarded are you that you can't see they're using the Red Hen situation as a comparison and not explicitly saying anything else? Your type of people love sex workers and you should find the comparison apt.

    Have you read any books in the past year? If I were you, I would be ashamed to have such poor reading comprehension. If there's a god, may he have mercy on your pathetic, fragmented soul.