This month has been a heck of a year
A news roundup edition of hate mail from your tired, but dedicated, hate mail editors.
Editor’s Note: We’re freaking tired. It may seem like we have been saying that a lot lately, but it’s true. This issue of hatemail will be a brief collection of the stuff that’s been stirring us up.
Fallout from the OnlyFans payment scandal
- Reversing A Planned Ban, OnlyFans Will Allow Pornography On Its Site After All
- OnlyFans Will Ban Pornography Starting in October, Citing Need to Comply With Financial Partners
- OnlyFans CEO Says Site Would ‘Absolutely’ Allow Porn Again, If Banks Agree to Pay Creators
- The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks | Jillian York
- OnlyFans has tons of users, but can't find investors
- OnlyFans Is Banning 'Sexually-Explicit Content' on Oct. 1
- OnlyFans: How it handles illegal sex videos
- OnlyFans Says It Won't Ban Sexually Explicit Content
- OnlyFans suspends proposed ban on sexually explicit content
- OnlyFans Decision to Ban and Un-Ban Porn Is About More Than Porn
- OnlyFans Creators React to Site’s Porn Ban With Anger, Confusion
- Why OnlyFans had second thoughts on banning sexually explicit content
- The payments mess that almost scared OnlyFans away from sex work
- Sex Workers Describe the Instability—and Necessity—of OnlyFans
Fight for Reproductive Rights
- TikTok Is Using Shrek Porn to Fight an Anti-Abortion Website
- TikToker Makes Script to Flood Texas Abortion 'Whistleblower' Site With Fake Info
Tragedy in Afghanistan
Ethical Tech
- Facebook Said to Consider Forming an Election Commission
- A New Chip Cluster Will Make Massive AI Models Possible
- How Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet
- U.S. Forgives $1.1 Billion in Debt for Former ITT Tech Students
- A new wave of Hacktivists is turning the surveillance state against itself
- San Francisco Sues Three Online Retailers for Selling ‘Ghost Guns’
Misinformation