My friend Krisztianna has recently shared a post: My Patreon is 18+, And Staying As Such. Go read it, it goes into the limits one is obliged to accept when we use services with corporate rules which end up hiding content, deleting content, or even banning users.
It brought to mind two of Paul Watson’s pieces: September life-drawing: not safe for whose work? and NSFW on the IndieWeb.
There are many reasons to be skeptical about big websites that encourage artists to use their services. But the implicit deal, don’t create anything too suggestive really does stink.
My solution for myself is to attempt to center my own website for anything I put up. So if it’s deleted, I have a copy that would be accessible to folks who are interested.
But it’s a problem that artistic nudity or bodies are still scorned in corporate environments. Additionally it brings to mind parental browsing controls that categorize sites. I’ve worked in a number of workplaces which included filtering technologies to hide some sites. Given how many great tutorials and write-ups of programming things are on personal blogs I’ve run into such filters deciding those links were unsafe.
I’ve no idea what this all adds up to, but I’ll continue to post on my own site, though my own artistic works are pretty much tame.
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