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Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing
[...] Six porn performers I talked to and more on social media said that they suddenly can't download adult content they keep on Google Drive. They also said they can't a[sic] share that content with other accounts or send to clients. In some cases, the adult content is disappearing from Drive without warning or explanation. The porn performers I talked to started sounding the alarm on Twitter last week. They said that Google Drive no longer seemed sex-trade friendly, detailing error messages and sharing cloud storage alternatives with each other.
When I asked about sexual content being blocked on Drive, a spokesperson for Google directed me to the Drive policy page—specifically the section on sexually explicit material, which says, "Do not publish sexually explicit or pornographic images or videos.... Additionally, we do not allow content that drives traffic to commercial pornography." Writing about porn and sex is permitted, the policy states, as long as it's not accompanied by sexually explicit images or videos. According to Google, Drive uses a combination of automated systems and manual review to decide what's in violation.
[...] "It seems like all of our videos in Google Drive are getting flagged by some sort of automated system," Stone said. "We're not even really getting notified of it, the only way we really found out was one of our customers told us he couldn't view or download the video we sent him."
Stone's files aren't removed from Drive, but when she tries to play the video or download it, she said Google gives her an error message: "Whoops! There was a problem playing this video" with an option to download the item, but the download link doesn't work.
Some sex workers are wondering if this has something to do with the impending vote on the SESTA-FOSTA bill, which is on the Senate floor for debate this week. [ed. note: it was passed]
It could also be that Google is suddenly enforcing its Terms of Service without warning.
[...] "I don't believe that Google should be allowed to dictate what you and another consenting adult send to each other through email."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday March 25 2018, @03:54PM (8 children)
I once met a porn star. "What's your website?"
"I don't know"
"It's vitally important that you own your own domain"
I have a friend who is a web design consultant. He enforces payment by registering his clients' domains in his own name.
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(Score: 2) by r1348 on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:10PM (4 children)
The accessibility of the profession (needs working genitals) often attracts low-IQ individuals with no hope in succeeding in other fields. This, of course, makes them ripe for exploitation.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by fyngyrz on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:26PM (2 children)
What makes them ripe for exploitation is the laws that apply massive pressure to marginalize them by pushing them down into the lowest social classes, lowest level of social support, lowest level of respect, lowest level of legal recourse when exploited/abused.
The problem here isn't the victim of the exploiter, or any apparent "ripeness" thereof.
The problem is the exploiter, and the laws that make it easy to be an exploiter.
I'd also point out the prevalence of religious belief among people of various IQ's. It's very clear that exploitation is doing very well all along the gaussian. When we allow, encourage, or enable exploitation, the unscrupulous will find a way to victimize people just that much more easily. Assigning blame accurately all along the causative path isn't all that difficult once you step back and look at the enabling factors as well as the events themselves.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday March 26 2018, @05:56PM
However, the negative correlation is well established in the scientific literature.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by r1348 on Tuesday March 27 2018, @10:03PM
I wasn't victim-blaming, I fully support bold investments in free and accessible education that can improve the overall IQ of the general populace, safeguarding disadvantaged individuals from being exploited because of their intellectual vulnerability.
Of course exploiters should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. A newborn is defenseless, it doesn't mean you can kick it.
(Score: 1) by milsorgen on Monday March 26 2018, @05:38AM
Citation Needed
Sounds like an incredible crass and callous thing to say about people.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 25 2018, @04:47PM (2 children)
Whaatsacompooder?
Is that like a google?
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday March 25 2018, @07:30PM
What does IT stand for?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zfa2ecb5lZw [youtube.com]
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(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday March 26 2018, @12:08AM
We apologize for the confusion. A compooder is that miracle million boobies box that makes your nether regions tingle.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.