Porn, Mastercard Moderation and How Bitcoin Doesn’t Fix It

Porn, Mastercard Moderation and How Bitcoin Doesn’t Fix It
As huge financial intermediaries increasingly censor online content providers, decentralized technologies de-censor them. It’s not always clear which side to cheer for.Allie Eve Knox, a sex worker who specializes in financial-related fetishes, woke up on Oct. 15 to find that of the thousand or so videos that she has uploaded to iWantClips, a site that allows models to sell adult-oriented content, only a dozen were available for sale. A week later, only a handful of others have been made accessible.J.P. Koning, a CoinDesk columnist, worked as an equity researcher at a Canadian brokerage firm and a financial writer at a…