Apparently FetLife has been forced to massively self-censor, due to pressure from banks and the current political climate on both sides of the Atlantic.
While I am not pro-censorship the content removed was rather repulsive and I'm not sure why it was allowed to be on there to begin with. According to fetlife this is their new content policy:
"Nothing non-consensual (abduction, rape, etc.) Nothing that impairs consent (drugs, alcohol, etc.) No permanent or lasting damage (snuff, lacerations, deep cutting, etc.) No hate speech (Nazi roleplay, race play, etc.) Nothing that falls under obscenity (incest, etc. )"
I'm glad there won't be pictures of people bleeding horribly showing up on my feed anymore.
But with the political climate there will probably be more censorship coming which is hypocritical since so many republicans are perverts.
On both sides of the Atlantic, conservatives (GOP in the US) ALWAYS ruin the fun for everyone yet like Leila says, they have freaks and perverts among their ranks.
Regis said: One wonders if quicksand content, however obviously staged, will be banned as snuff...?
That's always been a concern of mine so when I film I like to show the part where the model comes up out of the mud afterwards. But yeah it's basically a fake snuff film so that could piss some people off no matter how clearly I make it obvious that no one is actually being injured. And people are idiots, I have gotten youtube comments where people say "OMG why wouldn't you help the person instead of filming them?".
I think a big issue with a lot of the amateur stuff posted on fetlife is that it's hard to tell if something is really consensual or not. I would see people post some photos & videos that were really violent looking and if you don't have a professional model release saying the person was willingly engaging in that activity how do you know it wasn't rape? For a site like fetlife they really are putting themselves in a bad legal position if they let people upload questionable material. But in contrast if you are uploading the same type of content to a site like clips4sale you also have to upload model releases and 2257 records so that puts the responsibility on the producers and not the website.
But in the past people have been arrested for breaking the obscenity law by writing fictional stories that were clearly labeled as fictional. So with our government who the fuck knows what is going to happen.
LeilaHazlett said: While I am not pro-censorship the content removed was rather repulsive and I'm not sure why it was allowed to be on there to begin with. According to fetlife this is their new content policy:
"Nothing non-consensual (abduction, rape, etc.) Nothing that impairs consent (drugs, alcohol, etc.) No permanent or lasting damage (snuff, lacerations, deep cutting, etc.) No hate speech (Nazi roleplay, race play, etc.) Nothing that falls under obscenity (incest, etc. )"
I'm glad there won't be pictures of people bleeding horribly showing up on my feed anymore.
But with the political climate there will probably be more censorship coming which is hypocritical since so many republicans are perverts.
Agreed, but this is how things always work. Its people that take things to the nth degree that RUIN the rest for everyone. So for example there could be changes that remove any form of cosplay from kink or porn sites because the characters being portrayed are below a certain age or something similar.
Sadly, this kind of shit has been happening with video and computer games for decades. Nintendo even had a long time policy early on in censoring ANY religious or spiritual content from games. Entire patches to games like Street Fighter V have been devoted to changing victory poses or camera angles because they were "too bouncy" or showed too much of Cammy's or Chun-Li's asses.
Now there are wannabe SJWs (no REAL SJWs who ACTUALLY fight for civil and social right) that complain about Wonder Woman (enter ANY female IP) is too sexualized, while at the at the same time running around with their tits out saying the female body is beautiful and should not be repressed. Makes me think those people only care about female sexuality or equality if the character/person in question isn't "prettier" than them.
Its a fucking joke...and bad one at that.
I do have some issues with how women are over-sexualized in video games and the media in general which of course seems ridiculous coming from someone who makes a living getting nude and making videos for men to jerk off too. But that is a complicated topic that would take too long to go into.
However I do think it's sexist and ridiculous to say any female superhero is too sexualized without making the same complaint about male superheros. I think it was in the 2nd Thor movie they had a shot of him nude from behind for no reason other than it made straight women and gay men want to watch the movie, lol.
People love getting mad about shit and I will never understand that.
The politicians, and the worthless mentally inferior subhuman voters who vote for those politicians, who try to ban kink/fetish/porn, have too much time & unearned undeserved money on their hands, living off welfare from the government/taxpayer.
Anything is justified to do to these subhumans if they DARE insult animal rights activists or climate activists with their bullshit accusations that protestors "need to get a job" or are protesting "just because they have nothing better to do" or "have easy privileged lives", no matter how unimportant & irrelevant that is to the issue at hand.
Everybody thinks they are doing good. Therefore, by definition, everybody IS good. However, either everybody or absolutely nobody can be held responsible for knowing what the consequences of their actions are.
"Apparently FetLife has been forced to massively self-censor, due to pressure from banks and the current political climate on both sides of the Atlantic. "
What "current political climate"? There is ALWAYS current political climate. EVERY fucking moment in time thinks its moment in time is "special". NOBODY should "self-censor" until they are violently forced to by law.
What happened to all the BULLSHIT I've heard from the past 30 years about revolution & people standing up to big government & banks?