eBay will enact a sex ban starting June 15th - Wont someone think of the coomers

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eBay will enact a sex ban starting June 15th​

No female presenting nipples please
By Alex Cranz May 14, 2021, 6:47pm EDT
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If you’re hoping to turn a dollar on that extremely explicit hentai you picked up in college, you won’t be selling it on eBay. As first noticed by Adult Video News, eBay is banning the sale of most sexually explicit materials starting June 15th, 2021.
Everyone has a different definition of what constitutes “sexually explicit” and eBay’s is extremely PG. While the policy is confusing in that it appears to conflate nudity and sexually explicit content, it carefully defines nudity as “showing any part of male or female genitalia, anus, or female breasts where the areola or nipple is visible.” It goes on to say that those same bits don’t get a pass if they’re covered by see-through material or confined by tight clothing. The policy also classifies “people engaged in sexual contact or activity” as nudity.
It goes on to say “most adult-only items are prohibited” and includes “sexually explicit anime, comics, books, films, animation, manga, hentai, yaoi” as among the things considered adult only.
The policy, as written, would appear to ban the sale of Game of Thrones, where “sexposition” was all the rage, as well as films like Blue is the Warmest Color. Your favorite romance novel would be safe (images, not words, appear to be the problem) but Alan Moore’s epic comic collection Lost Girls, where Wendy from Peter Pan and Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz just really go at it in more pages than I personally wanted to see, would not. Explicit comics, explicit manga, hentai, and yaoi, which a pedantic might say are all the same thing, would be forbidden under the policy as well.
The policy does, however, carve out an exemption for Playboy, Playgirl, Mayfair, and Penthouse. Tasteful nudes sold in the Art section would also be allowed provided poses are acceptable and there are no sexual acts. What that means for prints of any version of Leda and the Swan is up to eBay. The same would likely go for the complete works of Katsushika Hokusai. The artist is best known for his woodblock print series featuring Mount Fuji, but was also known for his extremely explicit woodblock print erotica—including one of the earliest instances of “tentacle porn”.
Sex toys in unopened packages will continue to be permitted provided the packaging isn’t sexually explicit.
Censorship, even in a relatively open marketplace like eBay, is a notoriously tricky business. When Tumblr attempted to deal with its porn problem in 2018, it saw traffic take a nosedive as horny users went elsewhere. eBay told Vice that this new ban was in the interest of safety. Banning all adult content should make it more difficult for bad actors to monetize revenge porn or other content published without the consent of all participants.
When reached for comment eBay told The Verge:

eBay is committed to maintaining a safe and trusted marketplace. Starting June 15, 2021, items showing sexual content or sexually suggestive poses will no longer be allowed on eBay.com. The “Everything Else > Adult Only” will no longer be available as a category. No new listings will be allowed in the Adult Only category and good-til-cancelled listings will be ended upon their renewal date.

Hmm I wonder if this is a way to purge loli

 

[Haramburger]

I'm sure facebook market and etsy will be happy to pick up the slack. Revenue bad, lol

 

[Weed Eater]

This honestly kind of sucks, considering that I like eBay's interface, and how reliable it's been over the years. Not that I've ever bought porn or doujins on eBay, it just will make the online selling or re-selling of said items to be more tedious through markets on Facebook or similar.

 

[The Cunting Death]

So whats up with literally everyone banning adult content

 

[make_it_so]

What is even the reason for this? Age verification is a fucking thing. Or are they too fucking cheap/lazy to hire someone to ensure that works?

 

[Joe Swanson]

So whats up with literally everyone banning adult content

My tinfoil hat theory: it's so they can just keep a few entities to regulate the sexual appetite of the masses, in order to give us deprived fetishes

 

[Otis Boi]

So whats up with literally everyone banning adult content

I think it has to do with the general sterilization of the internet along with the rise of moral busy bodies (both the left and write wing). That and I think some bean counter in some department some where thinks that will attract more customers some how.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Banning all adult content should make it more difficult for bad actors to monetize revenge porn or other content published without the consent of all participants.

This is throwing the baby out with the bath water.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

So whats up with literally everyone banning adult content

1. The less sources for a product there are, the easier it is to control that product.
2. Adult content is perhaps the single easiest thing for ordinary people to successfully produce. The harder it is for ordinary people to generate this on their own, the less competition large corporations will have.
3. Political gain. It's just as easy to celebrate sexual liberation as it is to claim you are battling sexually-abusive industry. Pick whichever is most convenient at the moment.
4. Divisive idiots will point the finger at the opposite side of the political spectrum and insist this is all their fault. Divisiveness is profitable.

 

[HumanHive]

So whats up with literally everyone banning adult content

Banks and payment processors.

 

[Caustic Gelatin]

Well that's just friggen great. Now what am I going to do with all this vintage pornography and "gently used" bondage gear?

 

[Kuchipatchi]

If there's demand, there's a market. Makes me wonder who would pick up the slack.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

monetize revenge porn

who the fuck is putting their ex’s noods on eBay

 

[Hollywood Hitler]

Banks and payment processors.

Banks are a private company, bro. They have the right to tell you how you use YOUR money. If you don't like it, make your own currency.

 

[kcbbq]

1. The less sources for a product there are, the easier it is to control that product.
2. Adult content is perhaps the single easiest thing for ordinary people to successfully produce. The harder it is for ordinary people to generate this on their own, the less competition large corporations will have.
3. Political gain. It's just as easy to celebrate sexual liberation as it is to claim you are battling sexually-abusive industry. Pick whichever is most convenient at the moment.
4. Divisive idiots will point the finger at the opposite side of the political spectrum and insist this is all their fault. Divisiveness is profitable.

If something is banned it is essentially unregulated. It's far easier for a 6th grader to get pot where it is still banned than it is for them to get cigarettes.

 

[Horizontal Horror]

I would say that ebay is now the slave of the US government since their harassment campaign against ecommercebytes.com was revealed by federal investigators last year.

Beginning in August of last year, Baugh allegedly directed the employees to set up anonymous email and phone accounts and use them to send the couple disturbing packages, paid for with pre-paid debit cards.

The couple also allegedly received threatening letters online and were allegedly surveilled in the Boston area.

The packages sent to the couple's home included fly larvae, spiders, a box of live cockroaches, a sympathy wreath on the occasion of the death of a loved one, a book of advice on how to survive the death of a spouse and pornography sent to neighbors under the couple's names, Lelling said.

Other packages included a Halloween mask featuring the face of a bloody pig. A bloody pig fetus was ordered, but never sent due to questions from the supplier, Lelling added.

"This was a determined, systematic effort by senior employees of a major company to destroy the lives of a couple in Natick, all because they published content the company executives didn't like.

Former eBay Employees Sent Cockroaches, Bloody Pig Mask to Mass. Couple In Harassment Campaign

Six former employees of eBay have been charged with cyberstalking for allegedly waging a harassment campaign against a Natick, Massachusetts couple behind an online newsletter that criticized the e-commerce company. In a news conference, U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling said Monday the former...

www.nbcboston.com

They are doing all they can to not be fucked by the DOJ again.

 

[Atatata]

and includes “sexually explicit anime, comics, books, films, animation, manga, hentai, yaoi” as among the things considered adult only.

Interesting that they specify yaoi. Guess women would try to sneak it in under erotic lit. or some shit like that.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Ebay is still a thing?

 

[MrJokerRager]

So whats up with literally everyone banning adult content

Banning adult content is a national pastime that has gone on since at least the turn of the 20th century.

Well it's not as bad as when Lady Chatterly's Lover landed people in the federal pound town. There used to be laws against mailing porn over the USPS till SCOTUS ruled on it.

 

[CaesarCzech]

Any alternatives to having people simp to fat pinkhaired landwhales needs to be destroyed apparently. Still wont work and they are gonna die alone, they will just be a pain in the ass in meantime.