The Anti-'Cancel Culture' Republican Party Is Trying to Cancel OnlyFans
Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar paints himself as a free speech advocate, but he’s never seen a sex worker he didn’t want to censor. This week, Gosar, the GOP author of the “Stop Censorship Act of 2020,” penned a letter begging Attorney General Merrick Garland to shut down OnlyFans and investigate the porn platform for violating the Mann Act. Known as the “white-slave” law, the 1910 law forbids paying to transport women over state lines for prostitution.
Gosar falsely believes that, “On this site, individuals can advertise their willingness to travel across state lines for illegal or immoral activities, and the platform providing publicity for these individuals appears to subsidize and capitalize off this travel. It is worth investigating this issue further.”
To prosecute OnlyFans, Garland would have to prove the company intended users to organize prostitution over state lines, but OnlyFans has done its best to make it impossible to arrange prostitution services on the site. OnlyFans goes out of its way to prevent users from even attempting to facilitate in-person sex work (they forbid users from even direct messaging about prostitution fantasies). OnlyFans even blocks performers and fans from typing the words meet or meeting in direct messages. If I wanted to meet a fan for coffee, I couldn’t even discuss it on OnlyFans. I would have to ask a follower to tweet me, then reply to them on Twitter with the message, “Can we meet for coffee?”
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