As spotted by TechCrunch, X updated its guidelines to fto users “share consensually produced and distributed big nudity aliases intersexual behavior” arsenic agelong arsenic it’s branded and not successful a salient location, specified arsenic a floor plan image aliases banner.
In nan past, X — formerly known arsenic Twitter — didn’t explicitly prohibition porn. It became a location for immoderate NSFW creators following nan motorboat of Twitter Blue (now X Premium), arsenic creators could promote followers to salary to position content, akin to OnlyFans. NSFW contented could beryllium different shape of gross for X, which has seen a dip successful advertisement income pursuing Elon Musk’s takeover.
The level will require users who “regularly post” NSFW contented to set their settings to people nan images and videos they station arsenic delicate content. X’s rules use to each big content, whether AI-generated, photographic, aliases animated. By default, users who aren’t 18 aliases haven’t entered their commencement day can’t position NSFW material. The caller rules besides prohibition contented “promoting exploitation, nonconsent, objectification, sexualization aliases harm to minors, and obscene behaviors.”
X said successful March that it would commencement letting NSFW communities apply an “Adult Content” explanation to forestall posts from getting automatically filtered. The level besides said it would start hiding likes connected profiles, thing that had often exposed accounts (Ted Cruz) for liking contented that was big aliases objectionable successful different ways.
Despite nan caller position of work changes, cracking down connected rule-breakers will beryllium easier said than done, which is thing nan Twitter squad considered when exploring monetizing big contented successful 2022. We’ve already seen explicit AI-generated images of Taylor Swift flood X successful January, and nan level wasn’t instantly successful successful stopping them from spreading.
Other societal platforms person tally into issues pinch maintaining NSFW communities. Tumblr most notably banned big content successful 2018 (before updating nan policy to let immoderate big worldly a fewer years later), not agelong aft its app was removed from nan App Store because of posts containing kid intersexual maltreatment material, and postulation quickly dipped. Meanwhile, costs processors for illustration Mastercard and Visa trim disconnected payments connected Pornhub and started enforcing bans connected different platforms, starring Patreon, eBay, and even OnlyFans to present stricter rules astir nan big contented they allow.