OPINION | 'If Musk, or whoever the hell ends up owning Twitter, wants to protect free speech, they need to enshrine the speech of the porn club nobody wants to hear from, even if they disagree with our profession,' writes Cherie DeVille
. Critics argue he’s setting the stage for a troll free-for-all, while others are celebrating Musk for potentially ushering in a new golden age of free speech. Throughout the debate, we’ve heard everyone from Taylor Lorenz to Ben Shapiro, but we’ve yet to hear from one of the most silenced groups on social media:Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and other social media platforms censor us every day. Instagram seems to.
. Mastercard sets guidelines for what porn they will accept payments for, and they ban us from selling specific videos even if it depicts legal content . Since Twitter doesn’t sell videos, the platform should draw the line at legality and allow us to post any pornography enshrined by the First Amendment. With the legality rule, Twitter could boot someone for advertising illegal drug sales, but they could enable pornographers to publish legal adult content they can’t post on paid sites.
So far, Musk has pushed for an end to deplatforming and discussed identity verification. He’s yet to mention porn, but if he’s serious about free speech, he needs to protect the controversial, stigmatized community of pornographers that manufactures all the content people use for masturbation. After all, pornographers are the basis of the First Amendment Musk loves so much.
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