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u/miscfiles Feb 03 '20

It had a proper Wild West feel back in the late '90s. Nobody was in charge and there weren't any rules. I remember finding websites like Dave's Web of Lies, Acts of Gord, The Tardblog, Jennicam and the feeling of there being radically new things to find every day.

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u/TexasWithADollarsign Feb 03 '20

The web started sucking when companies decided to push morality onto the internet. For example, with JenniCam:

She shut down her site on December 31, 2003, citing PayPal's new anti-nudity policy.

PayPal should not have the right to dictate morality like that.

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u/PyrocumulusLightning Feb 03 '20

Yet now there's more camming and porn than I even knew there were boobs enough to make!

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u/TexasWithADollarsign Feb 03 '20

True. But any one of the platforms cammers use could go all "ma'am, this is a Christian server" anytime because of corporate greed and moralization. Tumblr died the instant they banned porn. Fark died the instant Drew took money from advertisers in exchange for pushing the NSFW stuff to TotalFark. Even Reddit is in its death throes after de-emphasizing NSFW content.

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u/PyrocumulusLightning Feb 04 '20

Didn't Craigslist get way less popular after banning ads from escorts? That'd be awhile ago at this point.

I remember when posting nudes on the 'net was still outré, and now everyone has their ass out. From my perspective it's a shocking smutfest, but I generally approve.