I honestly don’t think there is any solution to the problem at a large scale. Automated systems are always going to miss some things, be it because they are not good or because people learn how to...
I honestly don’t think there is any solution to the problem at a large scale. Automated systems are always going to miss some things, be it because they are not good or because people learn how to exploit them over time. And manual systems just aren’t practical at the scale that even a “smaller” platform like OnlyFans operates at. You just can’t hire enough people to manually review thousands of submissions per day, every day.
As for Twitter itself having a program like this, I wouldn’t mind at all. The stigma around porn and adult performers has lessened over time but it’s still there. A major company explicitly supporting it (as opposed to implicitly as Twitter does now and Tumblr did for years) would be good for performers and society in general.
If anyone is interested in learning just how messed up the business side of pornography is, and why we need above board companies to step in, I highly recommend the Hot Money podcast from two reporters at The Financial Times.
One solution might be to limit scaling to what the platform can handle. But that probably works better for a specialized site that knows what challenges it’s going to face. A site devoted to adult...
One solution might be to limit scaling to what the platform can handle. But that probably works better for a specialized site that knows what challenges it’s going to face. A site devoted to adult content is going to know going in that their age verification needs to be solid.
And of course Twitter did know this; by putting a red team on it, they were doing the right thing. Apparently they have a much harder time doing anything about it, though.
Limiting the scale means that they’d only want to accept the top X% or X number of people, which would severely limit profitability. And as much as I dislike Twitter (both as a company, and for...
Limiting the scale means that they’d only want to accept the top X% or X number of people, which would severely limit profitability.
And as much as I dislike Twitter (both as a company, and for what they’ve done to the world in general), I will give them credit for realizing that this is an unsolved problem and putting a halt to the program.
And let's be honest, it's going to cause an uproar about it being a closed ecosystem. No one is going to be perfectly happy about who gets in and who doesn't. Inevitably someone is going to cause...
Limiting the scale means that they’d only want to accept the top X% or X number of people, which would severely limit profitability.
And let's be honest, it's going to cause an uproar about it being a closed ecosystem. No one is going to be perfectly happy about who gets in and who doesn't. Inevitably someone is going to cause internet drama because a person of [insert chosen demographic here] didn't get in during whatever invite wave was most recently admitted. If it doesn't allow anyone that can pass the ID checks in, it'll be seen as purposefully excluding a specific group and it's just not worth the bad press that headline readers will take from it.
I honestly don’t think there is any solution to the problem at a large scale. Automated systems are always going to miss some things, be it because they are not good or because people learn how to exploit them over time. And manual systems just aren’t practical at the scale that even a “smaller” platform like OnlyFans operates at. You just can’t hire enough people to manually review thousands of submissions per day, every day.
As for Twitter itself having a program like this, I wouldn’t mind at all. The stigma around porn and adult performers has lessened over time but it’s still there. A major company explicitly supporting it (as opposed to implicitly as Twitter does now and Tumblr did for years) would be good for performers and society in general.
If anyone is interested in learning just how messed up the business side of pornography is, and why we need above board companies to step in, I highly recommend the Hot Money podcast from two reporters at The Financial Times.
One solution might be to limit scaling to what the platform can handle. But that probably works better for a specialized site that knows what challenges it’s going to face. A site devoted to adult content is going to know going in that their age verification needs to be solid.
And of course Twitter did know this; by putting a red team on it, they were doing the right thing. Apparently they have a much harder time doing anything about it, though.
Limiting the scale means that they’d only want to accept the top X% or X number of people, which would severely limit profitability.
And as much as I dislike Twitter (both as a company, and for what they’ve done to the world in general), I will give them credit for realizing that this is an unsolved problem and putting a halt to the program.
And let's be honest, it's going to cause an uproar about it being a closed ecosystem. No one is going to be perfectly happy about who gets in and who doesn't. Inevitably someone is going to cause internet drama because a person of [insert chosen demographic here] didn't get in during whatever invite wave was most recently admitted. If it doesn't allow anyone that can pass the ID checks in, it'll be seen as purposefully excluding a specific group and it's just not worth the bad press that headline readers will take from it.
It might be more profitable, if you can figure out how to charge money?