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Lol, so now banning pornographers from your site equals to discriminating against the lgbtquerty community.

I have nothing against erotica/porn and nothing against LBGT, but yeah, the open letter writer seems to be using "Why won't you think of the LBGT community?" line as a talking point, probably because accusing a company of being anti-gay is an effective weapon nowadays... somehow, saying more of this community uses their sexuality to make money (through Patreon) makes me feel "I'm sure the LGBT* accountants and bus drivers would disagree with this..."

Hey, most porn out there is straight. In fact it's a multi-billion dollar industry. Really shows how the straight community uses their sexuality to make money, doesn't it?

If you don't fit the target audience of the porn industry, you have to look elsewhere, like Patreon. The mainstream porn business does not cater to everyone. That's fine. The queer market is much smaller. But it also means its over-represented on platforms like Patreon, and thus particularly hit by this change.

So what exactly do you take issue with?

See the comment by "nippples" above:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15548719

> If you don't fit the target audience of the porn industry, you have to look elsewhere, like Patreon.

Except, you know, maybe Patreon doesn't want that.

I'm skeptical of this idea that the porn industry is discriminatory. Do you have any stats to back that up?

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