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Eugene

(62,756 posts)
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 12:42 AM Dec 2020

Parler's got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Trump social network

Source: Washington Post

Parler’s got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Trump social network

Hashtags like #keepamericasexy proliferate alongside conspiracy theories and conservative politics

By Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell and Rachel Lerman
12/2/2020, 7:57:47 p.m.

Anyone following the #sexytrumpgirl hashtag on Parler, a social media site increasingly popular with conservatives, got an eyeful one recent Thursday evening as images of topless women and links to hardcore pornography websites appeared at a rapid-fire rate, often more than one per minute.

The surge of #sexytrumpgirl posts highlighted a broader dilemma for Parler: The site’s lax moderation policies, in keeping with its claims to being a bastion of free speech, could make it a magnet for pornographers, escort services and online sex merchants using hashtags targeting conservatives, such as #keepamericasexy and #milfsfortrump2020.

The pornography threatens to intrude on users not seeking sexual material and has the potential to complicate hopes the site may have to expand advertising, which is now limited. Experts on the impact of pornography say major companies typically avoid having their sales pitches appear alongside controversial imagery.

Purveyors of sexually explicit material have thrived online since the early days of the Internet, and determining what to allow — and how to block what’s not allowed — has been a challenge for most social media sites. Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, for example, prohibit sexually explicit images and videos, while Twitter generally allows them so long as they show the images or actions of consenting adults.

Parler once banned all pornography but in recent months revised its terms of service to permit essentially anything that’s legal, making its policy close to Twitter’s, if slightly more permissive. Twitter, however, also has automated systems that prevent excessively rapid posting, as well as other spammy behavior, and employs human moderators to enforce its policies.

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Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/02/parler-pornography-problem/
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Parler's got a porn problem: Adult businesses target pro-Trump social network (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2020 OP
Gee, who saw THAT coming? LisaM Dec 2020 #1
Talk to Jim Robison. OAITW r.2.0 Dec 2020 #2
Gee, it'd be a SHAME... Jirel Dec 2020 #3
It's a "massage parler" Blue Owl Dec 2020 #4
What is the business model of the pornography industry? Frasier Balzov Dec 2020 #5
Parler becomes a sewer? Who knew? RainCaster Dec 2020 #6
Like @ the RNC, transwomen sex workers are gonna make Top bank from these hypocrites. FreepFryer Dec 2020 #7
Come into my Parler said the spiders to the flies. tanyev Dec 2020 #8

LisaM

(28,742 posts)
1. Gee, who saw THAT coming?
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 12:59 AM
Dec 2020


I have noticed people who were going to move to Parler trickling back to Facebook.

Jirel

(2,259 posts)
3. Gee, it'd be a SHAME...
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 01:12 AM
Dec 2020

if every popular hashtag on there was filled with porn images, the nastier the better. What a pity if the whole platform became nothing but pornographers feeding each other, sending all those “family values” nut jobs running... or quietly lurking just for the porn.

Frasier Balzov

(3,552 posts)
5. What is the business model of the pornography industry?
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 02:34 AM
Dec 2020

So much of the product is given away for free.

FreepFryer

(7,086 posts)
7. Like @ the RNC, transwomen sex workers are gonna make Top bank from these hypocrites.
Thu Dec 3, 2020, 04:10 AM
Dec 2020

No pun

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