LOS ANGELES—Jaaden Kyrelle, an OnlyFans creator who recently earned a degree in criminology and criminal Justice, is paying close attention to the laws that may be undermining online adult entertainers and urges others to pay attention as well.
Four years after the controversial FOSTA-SESTA "sex trafficking" legislation was put into motion, shutting down many adult websites and sex workers’ professional livelihoods and threatening the OnlyFans platform with exhaustive investigations under the guise of "safety" and "stopping human trafficking," the fight continues.
“This month, the Supreme Court is taking on the possible removal of Section 230 liability protections… which means the freedom we currently enjoy on, for example, our social media pages or OnlyFans, can be taken away from us,” Kyrelle explains. “Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has enabled free speech and expression in a variety of ways, and we’ve taken this for granted. If Section 230 goes, adult content as we know it is in serious jeopardy.”
Kyrelle goes on to add that FOSTA-SESTA, in its quest to fight online sex trafficking, restricted Section 230 protections for civil and criminal cases involving sex trafficking or, more broadly, "sex work."
“This means that the law can be interpreted to mean that certain online platforms, whether Twitter or OnlyFans, are liable for the content that is posted by content creators—leaving us open to censorship, or having our pages shut down arbitrarily in an effort to not have their companies penalized, sued or indirectly shut down as a result.”
She reminds adult online creators that supporting sites like StopSESTA.org and spreading the word that “we are once again in danger of losing our livelihoods because the government can simply ‘amend’ Section 230 protections ‘for our own good’… and there isn’t a thing we can do about it.”
“This month, the Supreme Court is taking on the possible removal of Section 230 liability protections… which means the freedom we currently enjoy on, for example, our social media pages or OnlyFans, can be taken away from us,” Kyrelle explains. “Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act has enabled free speech and expression in a variety of ways, and we’ve taken this for granted. If Section 230 goes, adult content as we know it is in serious jeopardy.”
Kyrelle goes on to add that FOSTA-SESTA, in its quest to fight online sex trafficking, restricted Section 230 protections for civil and criminal cases involving sex trafficking or, more broadly, "sex work."
“This means that the law can be interpreted to mean that certain online platforms, whether Twitter or OnlyFans, are liable for the content that is posted by content creators—leaving us open to censorship, or having our pages shut down arbitrarily in an effort to not have their companies penalized, sued or indirectly shut down as a result.”
She reminds adult online creators that supporting sites like StopSESTA.org and spreading the word that “we are once again in danger of losing our livelihoods because the government can simply ‘amend’ Section 230 protections ‘for our own good’… and there isn’t a thing we can do about it.”
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