Earlier this month, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter altered its guidelines with regard to adult content. Where before it only prohibited "pornographic" and illegal content, it changed to be more restrictive and almost comically detailed, banning everything from "implied sex acts" to "MILF/DILF" content. Tuesday, the company reverted this change, saying—you guessed it—it was under pressure from its payment processor, Stripe.
People were not happy when the rules first changed. "I thought we had been making progress fighting against antiquated ideas that human sexuality is somehow shameful or evil, but nope," wrote Reddit user literroy last Wednesday. On Bluesky, user 81632bitretro said, "Censorship by financial means. That's what this is."
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