“Nearly 80 rights groups on Wednesday accused Facebook of “racially biased censorship” and failing to be more transparent about its removal policies and cooperation with law enforcement, adding to criticism the company has faced in recent months over its management of content on its network of 1.8 billion users.”.* Changes (FetLife, log-in required – thanks Viviane)
… The card brand also required the banks to add us to the list which will make it tough for us to ever get a merchant account again, at least for the foreseeable future.” VB note: Coinbase also dropped FetLife for being a kinky site. This time they were told it was for “Illegal or Immoral” reasons. They got a similar call from the same card company, and they were asked to close our account. The bank asked for more information, but the only thing they could get from the card company was that part of it had to do with “blood, needles, and vampirism.” … Three days later, we get another notice, this time from our other merchant account. One of the card companies contacted them directly and told the bank to stop processing for us. This was in response to to significant pressure from FetLife’s credit card processor.įetLife’s founder John Baku said today in an apologetic post, “Last Tuesday we got a notice that one of our merchant accounts was shutting us down. It began for users one week ago when FetLife announced changes to content guidelines, stating “We can no longer allow FetLifers to publicly share sexual pics and vids containing blood visible in them.” Then without warning, Fetlife deleted hundreds of groups and literally thousands of fetish categories that represented a range of kinky communities (like ones with hypnosis, blood, and humiliation in the name).
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