'The young white male founders of the giant tech platforms that dominate our lives today are not the primary targets online and offline of harassment, abuse, sexual assault, racism, rape, revenge porn. Therefore they did not and they do not proactively design for the prevention of any of those things on their platforms. And we see the results around us every single day. Those of us who are at risk every single day- women, Black people, people of color, LGBTQ, the disabled- we design safe spaces and safe experiences. I and my tiny team spent literally years concepting and designing MakeLoveNotPorn before we ever built it, because we knew to invite people to do something they’d never done before- socially share their real-world sex- we had to think through every possible ramification to create a completely safe and trustworthy space.
And as a result, not only does MakeLoveNotPorn operate unlike anybody else in the adult sphere, we operate unlike anybody else on the internet period. .....We are tiny. We’re bootstrapping. We have no money. We’ve been human curating everything for nine years. If MakeLoveNotPorn can do it, OnlyFans with that revenue, Facebook, Instagram, boy oh boy, they could do it as well. You know, it’s like diversity and inclusion. If you really want to do it, you can. If you really want to human curate, you can.'
From 2021. Still true.
Justin Hendrix Tech Policy Press
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