This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Website/social starts, queers, LGTBQ+ and furries go there to find refuge from the mainstream oppression. There is fun, art, and porn. Sex drives traffic. Website becomes important. Company see the cash, they want investors or sell but big investors in the west are Christo fascist so no sex anymore.
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I fund a ton of queer yaoi/yuri visual novels. This sucks. I hate the trend of absolute puritanical governing (which is just used to attack queer people).
If it helps it's the payment processors doing this, not Kickstarter themselves. They are somewhat being held to ransom like a few of the other places that stopped allowing sexual nsfw content. Murder and mayhem, as usual, totally okay. Boobies bad. Death and hate totally fine...
This dystopia is sofa king boring.
For those who haven't read it: it's Stripe, their payment processor, behind this. Kickstarter isn't doing a Tumblr; they're just handling it like amateurs, rather than just yeeting those puritanical morons.
Tumblr was also caused by the nanny state behavior of Verizon when they bought it.
Its such a good thing to see a pretty normal part of the human experience get ripped out of every place humans gather because it makes the money holders uncomfortable.
Is not even money holders. It's those small but loud "Christian" groups, like that one from Australia that kicked up a shit storm with Steam not long ago.
Sure but they donβt make the final decisions, visa and Mastercard, the money holders do
Backed by their US based founders, dont put this solely on Australia.
Shh. You'll anger your future shareholder king!
Wait... Kickstarter had NSFW content?
Ah, trash. Or atleast the slop I wish wasnβt on the steam store.
I donβt like it so therefore Iβts slop
I know that there's the occasional spicy comic or photoshoot, and I think I recently came across a kind of squishy ball you could insert rectally to make anal sex less messy. So there was some stuff at least.
I saw an interview with the founders not too long ago. Itβs golf ball sized, soft/firm thing and itβs designed to be pushed in. Iβll leave the details out, but it is engineered to dissolve after a few hours. Itβs meant as a way to bypass douching prior to the act.
Found the YT link. Itβs 30 minutes of education and entertainment.
A ball? 2 things internet has thought me...
The jar was pretty solid. Don't recommend it though.
Iβve seen people push out billiard balls and whole apples out of their backend. These were of course trained professionals, but a small ball that turns soft wouldnβt be much of a problem.
The idea apparently was that the warmth of the rectum makes the ball very squishy again, allowing you to easily push it out again.
That hole already serves the function of pushing out squishy things though.
*flared base
What counts as NSFW when you work in porn?
Drugs? Taxes?
Unless you're a politician. Then it is infact safe for work.
Behold the results of negotiating with the terrorists that we call evangelicals
and musk and thiel apparently
Osama bin Thiel
Is it an ad revenue thing or a purity thing? Either way, booooo.
It's Stripe. The CEO has ties with Palantir and Elon Musk and wants all porn to be banned.
Ironic, 100% chance he's a pedo
"Nobody gets adult porn if I can't get my pedophile porn!"
both are pedos, thiel just havnt been investigated heavily hes into younger men, boys where he can use thier blood to make him younger.
It sounds like it's just insertable toys, so it might be a liability thing if they're afraid people are selling unsafe toys? Who knows. That's a really weird distinction and definitely one that payment processors don't make.
Nope, Monster Girl Academy got the axe too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krazykrow/monster-girl-academy-3-succubi-oni-centaurs-and-more
Another article confirmed it was payment processors again. This is why we can't have nice things.
Does Kickstarter have liability in general for Kickstarted projects? I'd kind of assume that that's on the specific project. I can't imagine that Kickstarter is in any kind of position to really do a domain-specific evaluation of whether a given project is in line with local regulations.
IIRC, no, they don't. They put the onus of proving the project is legit on the project maker and on the backers to be vigilant not falling for too good to be true projects.
Over the years kickstarter has become just another big marketing platform for big brands (for their niche) and pushing out smaller projects.
As a former serial backer, over the years I "only" have backed 40 or so (I don't remember the exact number and don't want to check now) and only 2 that failed to deliver. One, in hindsight, is blatantly a scam and kickstarter didn't do anything about it. The other one that didn't deliver is just mismanagement. At least it looked like it. Could still be a scam.
Why would Kickstarter be liable for someone else project.
Thatβs like trying to sue UberEats for delivering food that gave you food poisoning.
You can't really legalese yourself out of being liable if it can be shown you knew of an issue and did nothing to prevent it.
I hope some NSFW only kickstarter clone comes from this, it'd be both really fun to browse and I think it'd make some cool, fun, weird etc. products real.
That will never happen unfortunately. Kickstarter got rid of NSFW because Visa and Mastercard are run by American religious extremists who want to criminalize porn.
You'd need a whole different international payment system that isn't run or influenced by religious extremism.
