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Mike Stabile

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Mike Stabile

@mikestabile

First Amendment Rodeo Clown. Co-founder, SWR Data. Director of Public Policy, Free Speech Coalition. Bad takes all my own.

Los Angeles, CA

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Joined December 2008

Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Aug 20, 2024
The DNC needs to stop using "p**nstar" as a punchline. It's cheap, it's punching down, it's respectability politics at the expense of a community already dealing with harassment, discrimination and disrespect Her willingness to come forward is how you got those damn convictions.
Matthew Rettenmund
@mattrett
Aug 20, 2024
Jasmine Crockett calls Trump "a career criminal, with 34 felonies, two impeachments and one porn star to prove it." #DNC #jasminecrockett
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Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Aug 22, 2021
I know a lot of you feel hopeless right now, but I watching this unfold, I want to contextualize a few things about the battle ahead. #1 Exodus Cry and NCOSE are scrambling: 95% of coverage about OnlyFans supports SWers. They didn't expect this, and now want to shift blame. 1/
Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Jan 25, 2024
You may think these bills don’t affect you due to their alleged targets. But underneath the moral panic, these bills are really about locking down the internet, ending anonymity online, increasing surveillance and limiting access to educational, legal and medical resources.
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Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Mar 15, 2023
A lot of people are going to be watching "Money Shot" tonight. Many of the claims in the doc — especially those from the evangelical #traffickinghub campaign — are confusing or deceitful. If you're not familiar with the industry, here's what you need to know: 1/
Netflix
@netflix
Mar 15, 2023
Pornography is a billion dollar industry that accounts for 35% of all internet traffic — but who protects the people they profit off? Money Shot: The Pornhub Story is now on Netflix
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Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Feb 1, 2024
Age verification has always been a Trojan horse. Colossally ineffective at what it proposes to do (keep kids from accessing adult content), frighteningly effective at what it says it won’t do (surveil adults, censor speech, punish queers).
Kate Sinclaire
@MsKateSinclaire
Jan 31, 2024
Age verification is gearing up to be like SESTA/FOSTA. A bill that claims to save children that never fulfills its purpose but oversteps into everyone's privacy rights and deplatforms countless women, 2SLGBTQ folks and sex workers.
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Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Feb 5, 2024
Absolutely stunning investigation by NPR into the racist, antisemitic, misogynist roots of “porn addiction” junk science — the very stuff being peddled by antipoorn groups in order to pass age-verification bills and other censorship. It’s all nonsense.
npr.org
Masturbation abstinence is popular online. Doctors and therapists are worried : Consider This from...
More than two decades of growing internet use has surfaced fears about the social and psychological impacts of nearly unfettered access to pornography. But many researchers and sex therapists worry...
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Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Jan 12, 2024
Antiporn laws and language are now being applied to people.
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Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Aug 22, 2021
Replying to @mikestabile
So be proud. This is work YOU did. MasterCard and the antis are on their backheels, at least temporarily. It's our job to keep them there. It won't stop OnlyFans, but it will delay future attacks (and give us all time to regroup for the next fight). Here's how:
Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Aug 22, 2021
Replying to @mikestabile
They didn't expect so much of the coverage to paint them as bad guys, or to talk about their religious campaign, or how it's hurting sex workers. They're nervous. 2/
Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Aug 22, 2021
Replying to @mikestabile
This is largely due to the efforts of SWers who, for the last 9 months, have made sure journalists knew who these groups really were. In Dec, most articles ran quotes with no context or qualifiers. Here, journalists are speaking almost exclusively with SWers. 4/
Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Aug 22, 2021
Replying to @mikestabile
That's why you also see @Mastercard trying to wash its hands of this as well. Very few people are talking about illegal content (as they did with PH), everyone is talking about banking censorship. 6/
Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Aug 23, 2021
Replying to @mikestabile
One last point: only sex workers could have done this! Not studios, not OnlyFans, not me. Nobody cares about a billion dollar company. But they do care about every day people fighting to survive — and thrive — in a harsh world. Never forget how powerful you are.
Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Aug 22, 2021
Replying to @mikestabile
This is markedly different than the Pornhub coverage in the fall, which repeated the Kristof misinformation about widespread illegal content. This time, with a few notable exceptions, the voices of Exodus Cry and NCOSE are excluded from the conversation. 3/
Mike Stabile
@mikestabile
Aug 22, 2021
Replying to @mikestabile
1. Post about what this is costing you! The money you're losing. If you're skittish about $$$ figures, talk about your concerns: the house payments, rent, food, the percentage of your income lost. This is powerful, visceral stuff. 8/