Bluesky Cracks Down on NSFW Art
With a recent change of their guidelines, social network Bluesky is dropping the hammer on certain adult art depictions. Critics compare the move to bans happening on Steam and itch, while pointing out that bans like these can harm other artful expression as well.
With a change in their terms of service active from 15 October onward, social network Bluesky has began implementing similar banning of adult content in art as digital game storefronts did recently under pressure from payment processors and anti-porn groups. The recent update of Bluesky’s community guidelines added the paragraph “We do not allow sexual content involving non-consensual activity including synthetic, simulated, illustrated, or animated versions”. Specifically, the indication of artificial depictions is new. In its earlier version, the guideline forbade “depictions of non-consensual sexual activity”.