Tech companies have appointed themselves as our moral police, forcing organizers everywhere to walk a fine line between visibility and safety. Our movements use these platforms to shape political narratives, distribute capital, and shift power. But big tech censorship increasingly influences how we can share information.

Adult content creators and sex workers are often the first victims of censorship and silencing on digital platforms. When those policies go unchallenged, tech companies are emboldened to continue tightening the moral leash on all of us. The ambiguity and lack of transparency of platform policies that try to describe what types of bodies are offensive quickly become the policies that describe what type of ideologies are offensive – always targeting women, trans people, and people of color most of all.

Sex workers and adult content creators have been here before. They share information within the community on how to use platforms to stay visible and connected, while keeping each other safe. The risks they face in terms of exclusion from financial platforms (Stripe, PayPal), content platforms (Patreon, Steam), social platforms (Instagram, X), are rolling out for everyone, if we step out of line of the moral mandates set by big tech.