OPINION: “The revelations were particularly terrifying for me and my fellow porn stars and sex workers because we know firsthand what it’s like for tech giants to censor our free speech, often for opaque reasons.”
, and other findings, sharing them via lengthy tweet threads and Substack posts.
The revelations were particularly terrifying for me and my fellow porn stars and sex workers because we know firsthand what it’s like for tech giants to censor our free speech, often for opaque reasons. For years, we’ve faced censorship on platform after platform, only for critics to yell at us that “social media isn’t the public square” and “you should build your own adult platforms.
We are the perfect group for the Twitter Files to analyze, but thus far, the Files have failed to divulge how the company handles sex workers, despite plenty of avenues for these reporters to investigate. For one, Taibbi and Weiss were able to prove that Twitter was guilty of “,” i.e., preventing certain accounts and tweets from appearing in users’ feeds and searches.
For years, many porn stars felt like Twitter treated us as criminals—even though the law protects our occupation—so these reporters could also examine how Twitter classified porn stars.
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