I've gotten a few questions from non-SW folks about the impact of the #onlyfans news.

Again: you should listen to SWs talk about impacts (@whoreganizer @hackinghustling @DecodingStigma @melissagira etc., see my other tweets)

But, if you're seeing this, here's a short summary: These changes in rules can mean a huge & unexpected loss of income.

As far as we can tell from our still-in-progress research, many OF creators are new to S*x W*rk. While experienced S*x W*rkers were anticipating the realities of deplatforming, less experienced folks may not be.

Anti-adult work policies, often driven from American morality (for OF: the morality of their payment processors & the people lobbying them) put marginalized people - often women, people of color, and LGBTQ folk - at serious risk.

This is people's livelihood, not just "some tech"

https://twitter.com/inputmag/status/1428421204055052296

Academics & tech folks, read:

@hackinghustling's reports: hackinghustling.org/erased-the-imp… hackinghustling.org/posting-into-t…

+ our work on exactly this OF phenomena @TheOfficialACM:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/34…

& the dangers it creates @USENIXSecurity: usenix.org/conference/use…

Sometimes as a security researcher I'm shocked that the assumptions we make: that every system can be broken, that no system is truly private are rarely held by the broader CS community.

A short thread of recent examples. In preparing COVID19 ppr, I'm reminded of our efforts to submit the initial work on people's willingness to adopt based on privacy vs. accuracy @NeurIPSConf.

Reviewers claimed it was unnecessary to consider privacy in a decentralized system because it was perfectly private.

A thread for those who may not be aware.

@airbnb uses AI to detect whether a user is a sex worker, mentally ill, or otherwise "un-desirable".

Based on this algorithm, #airbnb bans these folks, even if they were *not* looking to use the property for e.g., #sexwork. Multiple sex workers we interviewed in Europe (Germany/Switzerland) reported this problem extensively, even though sex work is not illegal behavior.

This is a classic case, as many workers discussed, of Americanized-tech damagingly applying our "ethics" to the rest of the world