had just been made final, and we spoke about how her book’s thesis—that we owe some of our greatest innovations on the internet to the enduring yet ever-evolving needs of adult content—already carries major implications for at least one of Musk’s reported schemes: to create aon Twitter.
There have been some big recent developments that could carry implications for the future of online connection. The first one I want to ask you about, of course, is Twitter. Amongst the many, many things Elon Musk is reportedly toying with for the platform’s future, one of them is the possibility of aThat’s certainly something I'm keeping an eye on.
If they are going to try it, they're going to realize very quickly that things like discrimination from banks and Square all of these payment processors that people take advantage of on the mainstream aren't friendly to adult transactions.
But you know, Twitter is already under attack from people who hate porn and hate sex on the internet in general. That's a real risk for him. And it's a real shame to open people who are using Twitter up to that risk—people who use Twitter to advertise their OnlyFans or their clip sites and meet clients, stuff like that. Twitter is one of the last places where you can just post adult content where you're in it with everybody else; It's not like the adult section of Twitter.
is porn or something, so it makes sense that he wants to monetize that. He's in for a world of issues that I don't think he's ready for. But that’s applicable to everything he's doing.—though not necessarily all NSFW content. Are these two shifts related in any way?