It’s not a policy change. It’s a business opportunity.
took over, Twitter had stood out among major social networks for its tacit tolerance of pornography. This week, the social media platform now called Xto explicitly permit “consensually produced and distributed adult nudity or sexual behavior,” as long as it’s properly labeled at the time it’s shared.
Those new “Adult Content” labels will appear as a content warning that people have to click to see the post, according to X’s policy. Users who are under 18 or who don’t provide their birth date to X will not be able to view it, and those who don’t want to view sensitive content canThe move isn’t so much a policy shift as a signal that X sees adult content as a business opportunity.on Tuesday that it is in the process of updating and clarifying many of its help pages.
“They still have to increase enforcement against illegal content” like child sexual abuse material and nonconsensual porn, he added. “But this announcement will save them time with policymakers who don’t know that nudity has always been allowed on Twitter and X.” Perhaps more importantly, the new policy signals to adult-content creators that “X is open for business.
It has traditionally been the only major social media network that allows sex workers and other artists who portray nudity to share their work without censure. Meta, for instance, has taken down sex workers’ accounts when it deems their photos have crossed the line from sensual to sexual.
“We’ve always posted porn on Twitter,” she told Tech Brief in a text message. “If they un-shadow-ban us and let monetize on their accounts, that would be a step in the right direction, but considering the past promises X/Twitter made with removing bots and free speech, I don’t expect much to change.”, “The global cyberthreat landscape in 2024,” Thursday at 12 p.m. The event features the State Department’s top cyber diplomat, Nathaniel C. Fick; former National Security Agency director Gen.
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