01-03-2015, 05:50 AM
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Phonetically Sexy
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: USA
Posts: 312
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Best articles about business Violet Blue read in 2014 were about sex work
Violet Blue wrote a nice piece about the censorship and discrimination she faces in running her legal business as a sex blogger, and linked to two solid business articles articles at the end of her testimony. This sounds familiar:
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This year officially marks my tenth year as a full-time freelance writer. In 2005, Jonno convinced me to quit Good Vibrations and run Fleshbot with him, while writing books, and I went for it. (As an aside, December 2014 was the ten-tear birthday of Open Source Sex.) Since quitting my day job as a copywriter and retail superheroine, I?ve authored and edited many books, and reported/blogged/wrote feature pieces for a lot of great news outlets, magazines, newspapers and blogs.
But it?s never entirely stable, especially with a publishing industry in constant identity and financial crisis ? and on top of that, my first and continuing challenge is self-regulation. Every freelancer knows what I mean.
Then, there?s the figuring out how to run my business part, which is very very far from any cookie-cutter startup, author, freelance journo or small business template.
I?ll just put it this way: If it wasn?t for sex censorship by so many major companies, financial institutions, tools and platforms, I?d *only* have to face the typical set of challenges all women face who run their own business. The limitations of censorship, plus the danger of doing business with companies who routinely deal unfairly (and occasionally behave harmfully) to independent businesses/businesspeople (whose business might be sex-related), has absolutely hurt me as a businessperson.
That?s everything from having my name blacklisted in search engine autocompletes, to getting accounts revoked without actually breaking any rules, being disallowed to advertise (or take advertising) through everyday channels like AdSense, worrying payment processors and social media sites (and more) will delete my account, unable to plan around Amazon and Google who may de-list (or deep-six) sexuality searches without notice, being unable to do a Kickstarter or put an app about human sexuality in Apple or Google?s marketplaces, constantly being reported on sites I have accounts on simply because some people think what I do is wrong, not being able to use any of the decent mailing list companies to have a newsletter? I could go on.
I just write about sex. That?s it.
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You should read the article. Follow the links. And then build more clever internet stuff to defeat the casual censorship and financial bottlenecks that constrict sexual free expression here in Kim Jung Un's North Korea, um, I mean Amazon/Visa's America.
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