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Vienna museums launch OnlyFans account to display 'explicit' artworks:
The city of Vienna is taking an offbeat approach to the censorship of art and has turned to using the adults-only online platform OnlyFans to put its most "explicit" artworks on full display.
The tourism board for the Austrian capital is now presenting art from four of Vienna's most revered museums on the adults-only platform in response to the blocking of some artistic content containing nudity on social media.
[...] In July, the Albertina Museum's TikTok account was suspended -- and later blocked -- for displaying works by the Japanese artist and photographer Nobuyoshi Araki that showed a partially-obscured breast.
Back in 2019, Instagram said that a painting by the legendary Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens violated its community guidelines. Earlier this year, when the Leopold Museum marked its 20th anniversary, a video uploaded to Facebook and Instagram which contained work by Koloman Moser was rejected because it was flagged as "potentially pornographic" by the platforms.
Now, these works and more of Vienna's "18+ content" can be found on full, unfiltered display on OnlyFans -- a subscription-based website best known as a platform for sharing and viewing pornographic content.
[...] "And the battle against censorship still rages on: with the rise of social media, bans like these are back in headlines once again. Major social media channels like Instagram and Facebook have nudity and 'lewd' content firmly in their sights."
[...] Any subscribers to the account will receive either a free Vienna city card or a free ticket to any of the featured museums where the city's tourism board has said "uncensored works of art in question can be seen in the flesh."
(Score: 5, Funny) by maxwell demon on Sunday October 17 2021, @08:08AM
So in future, when people sign up for OnlyFans, they'll of course will do it only for the art.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @08:08AM (3 children)
So damn afraid of anything remotely sexual that half a titty means art has to be hosted on porn sites.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @10:24AM
> So damn afraid of anything remotely sexual that half a titty means art has to be hosted on porn sites.
Not afraid, they just want the net to become Sharia-compliant. It started out by Facebook outsourcing moderation to Malaysia. That established a terrible precedent and set the tone for all further online discourse. Since then the problem has picked up momentum and spread beyond social media to more of the rest of the Internet.
https://thereligionofpeace.com/pages/articles/sharia.aspx [thereligionofpeace.com]
(Score: -1, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @08:56PM (1 child)
Nobody is making them do this. They probably thought to do it because it would be attention grabbing and trendy. Certainly not because they had no other choice.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @08:11AM
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @09:07AM
The Simpsons
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeL2yILctp0 [youtube.com]
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday October 17 2021, @09:32AM (1 child)
At some point, Visa and MC will stop accepting payments for OnlyFans because they just can't stand so much smut, nosiree.
Censorship come from many different angles in our world of giant unstoppable monopolies.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @09:46AM
The credit card companies are the true four horsemen of censorship.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/20/tech/onlyfans-explicit-content-ban-payment/index.html [cnn.com]
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Sunday October 17 2021, @10:54AM (3 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @11:30AM (2 children)
Phil, from a technical point of view, you are right. It is simple to just make your own website. What you lose when you do this though is that you have to pay someone to maintain it. You need to arrange hosting as well. Lastly, if you are on one of the social platforms, it can be easier to have people find your content. You can pay to promote it. If you have your own website, you are dependent on people looking for you via a search engine. Perhaps you could promote your website by paying a popular Youtube channel to promote you. In short, having your own website is more work, more money, more hassle.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @02:38PM
> if you are on one of the social platforms, it can be easier to have people find your content.
You're thinking of the artworks as mass-market consumer products that were created for rapid-fire blipverting onto as many random retinas as possible.
They're works where the audience have already placed a substantial investment into understanding the ideas involved, so using a /desktop browser/ and /manually typing in a URI/ is trivial.
I expect thought the Vienna Museum management are using this to get numbers that can be added to prop-up exhibition campaign results.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday October 18 2021, @08:35AM
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by bart9h on Sunday October 17 2021, @02:14PM (6 children)
since when partially-obscured breast is 18+ content?
kids can't even go to the beach?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 17 2021, @06:06PM (3 children)
and in general the female breast has a tenuous claim as a sexual body part anyways. only two orifices should reasonably be considered truly sexual and one of those is a little tenuous under the following criteria but people probably couldn't handle the fall out from that potential delisting from the naughty list. Just because straight men find womens' breasts sexually arousing is not a good enough reason to classify it as sexual and therefore obscene for children. You might as well ban womens' mouths too. They are primarily used for eating like breasts are used for feeding, but they can both be used for other things.
(Score: 2) by mrchew1982 on Monday October 18 2021, @06:18AM
Suddenly middle eastern fashion makes...sense... In an f-ed up kind of way.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @10:10AM (1 child)
Parent said:
"and in general the female breast has a tenuous claim as a sexual body part anyways."
Tell that to the women that yell to squeeze their breasts during lovemaking to push them over the edge to orgasm. Have you never stimulated a woman's breasts and heard her moan?
Jesus, yours is a dense argument. An organ can have more than one function. Are you going to tell me that a vagina is for delivering a baby to the outside world, so why consider it an erotic organ?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @09:46PM
So the ear is now a sexual organ, and everybody needs to wear earmuffs in public?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Sunday October 17 2021, @08:23PM (1 child)
It's especially silly when you realize that the average human kid sees their first human breast within the first hour of being born. If you are one of those majority of kids, and have any imagination at all, then you have a pretty darn good idea what somebody's breasts look like before you actually see them.
But all that censorship does have one significant effect: People being more willing to shell out hard-earned cash at strip clubs, brothels, and Internet pr0n sites.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 18 2021, @10:16AM
No. Nobody ever got off by looking at an oil painting in a museum or online. That has no connection, censored or otherwise, to places or things dedicated to getting your rocks off. Strip clubs function that way in that they typically are fronts for freelance prostitution. The men who go there just to look and not do anything else spend all their money and go home with nothing to show for it (but frustration), as a pimp in the strip club told a young me. He offered me the real thing standing next to him, but ghetto whores do not appeal to me.