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Mike Stabile Profile picture
@mikestabile
Apr 26 • 7 tweets • 6 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
You want to really deprive El No of income, without depriving marginalized communities of one of their only chances to be visible? #BlockTheBlue selectively (fascists! trolls!) and block advertisers aggressively.

Sacrificing SWers voices is not the answer.
Twitter is one of the only platforms where people who trade sex or make adult content have ANY voice. And even here, they're constantly shadowbanned and harassed. Protect yourself by all means, but understand that a flat #blocktheblue is a campaign of erasure.
The work that @Esqueer_ has been doing is incredible and vital, and the vitriol that trans people (including trans SWers) face is unreal. This isn't about shaming, it's about flagging the fact that #BlockTheBlue will also do real harm.
SWers don't deserve to be labelled as collaborators here. They're trying to survive in an incredibly hostile environment, using some of the only tools at their disposal. All of our presence on this site feeds the beast in some way, but for many of us it's only option we have.
You really want to starve the beast of income? #BlockTheGold. Those are the people paying $1000 a month for the privilege. Block @Chevron and @amazon and @IBM and @DisneyCruise. Those are the people paying for advertising. ImageImageImageImage
Block @belVita and @salesforce and @NBA and @CapitalOne and @MotleyFool.

Not some 25 year old trying to make rent.
#blocktheblue campaigners now gleefully blocking trans sex workers li @_look_its_sarah who admit to using it. Image

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Apr 27
Mindgeek’s 3 lawsuits against German regulator KJM were dismissed yesterday by a German court. KJM — which has threatened adult creators on Twitter with arrest — says they’ll proceed with a nationwide block of their domains. Only it’s not that easy… 1/ computerbild.de/artikel/cb-New…
First, because telecom companies are largely unwilling to get roped the German regulator's sex censorship campaign. One is even suing. 2/ spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzp…
The reason their suing — and why MG was also — was because Germany wants to have control of content outside of Germany. (MG is based in Cyprus, which has ... different laws). Germany wants to treat the internet like airspace, essentially. If it can be accessed in Germany ... 3/
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Apr 27
Legislators in Alabama want to force Apple, Samsung, Google and Jitterbug to mandate that phones, tablets and laptops come with porn filters on and activated — whether you want it or not.

Republicans: the party of personal responsibility.
al.com/news/2023/04/b…
Now, device level filters are shockingly effective. They're also super easy to use. Which is why it's stunning to think that they can not trust someone buying a device to decide whether or not to turn it on.
And of course, there's a litany of horror stories that ... I'm willing to bet did not happen. Image
Read 6 tweets
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Apr 25
New audio recordings in the Abby Grossman suit reveal Tucker Carlson calling sex workers "slutty and pathetic" ... and in the next breath defending child marriage and fantasizing about underage girls.

These assholes really work to top themselves, but they always do. Image
What's "slutty and pathetic" is selling your soul to a billionaire mogul, only to have him dump you when you cost him too much money.
Sluttier and pathetic-ier? Having no moral core at all. As in:

attending the funeral of a man who made his living off of sex workers,  taking photos with sex workers and then coming home and trashing them as beneath you.

vanityfair.com/style/2018/11/… ImageImage
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Mar 22
They’re finally doing it — Texas is reviving the Comstock Act, which bans the mailing of anything related to contraception and abortion. And porn. And sex toys. And anything else the American Taliban finds “immoral” under his eye.
For those not aware, the Comstock Act was a series of 19th c. federal laws prohibiting the use of the mail to send books, ads, medicine, tools or any 'thing' that "can, be used or applied for producing abortion, or for any indecent or immoral purpose" law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
Obviously, it covered A LOT. Mailing romance novels, family planning pamphlets, sex toys, personal letters with sexy bits, the pioneering gay magazine "ONE" and anything that discussed sexuality at all were ... federal crimes.
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Mar 15
A lot of people are going to be watching "Money Shot" tonight. Many of the claims in the doc — especially those from the evangelical #traffickinghub campaign — are confusing or deceitful. If you're not familiar with the industry, here's what you need to know: 1/
The #traffickinghub campaign is not neutral. It is the byproduct of an evangelical ministry, International House of Prayer (IHOP!)) of Kansas City. Exodus Cry, the org behind the hashtag, emerged from an IHOP prayer session. 2/
thedailybeast.com/inside-exodus-…
#Traffickinghub is not IHOP’s first foray into morality politics.

The 2013 doc ‘God Loves Uganda' follows IHOP missionaries in Africa fueling the rhetoric that ultimately leads to Uganda's controversial ‘Kill the Gays’ law. hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-n…
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Mar 14
So good to be in a room with so many of the strongest defenders of our rights —@thesiridahl @GwenAdora @TheBreeMills @GustavoTurnerX @allieeveknox @AsaAkira @CherieDeVille @NATASSIADREAMSX, onscreen and off — watching NCOSE squirm and Exodus Cry be exposed for charlatans. Image
It's incumbent upon all of us to push back against the #traffickinghub narrative created by evangelical Christians like Exodus Cry. It is and always has been a front to censor — or in their words, the abolition — of sexually explicit media.
Exodus Cry and NCOSE are both antiporn/anti-sex work organizations that misrepresent their true goals, and use victims of trafficking as a means to an end — banning adult content and sex work.
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