🙏 Our thoughts are with Leonid’s family and friends during this difficult time.

Q&A with Valentine Vonbettie Q&A with Valentine Vonbettie

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📰 Our newest SpankByte is out now!

We spoke with @valentinevonbettie.bsky.social about her journey through advocacy, outreach, and community care, and how her roles with the @oswcoalition.bsky.social and @cupcakegirlsorg.bsky.social have shaped her perspective on what adult workers really need.

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We are hosting Office Hours for PASS Members next week! ✅

Sign up for PASS Membership by March 24th for the invitation!

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Lobby day on The Hill with the @fsc.bsky.social!

Meta is funding all the age verification laws to create a global surveillance state of which they'll hugely benefit (absolutely serious)

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with

Age verification laws are really just censorship mandates clothed as child safety proposals—here’s why. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

We learned some interesting & share-worthy information from our “Love is in the Air” survey! 🤓

Are you surprised by these stats?

Ok great we’ll take a look and get back to you!

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EDITION 87 Spank officially launched SpankBytes, a collection of easily digestible digital content to keep you educated and aware of critical events in the adult industry. It also helps keep the brain juices flo...

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📰 Edition 87 of our newsletter is LIVE!

Inside:

✨ AVN & XBIZ highlights (plus an @fsc.bsky.social advocacy win)
✨ The CLARITY Act + the future of crypto
✨ PornHub breach fallout + security tips
✨ New SpankBytes drops

Catch up at the link below ⬇️

Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control When Rep. Leigh Finke spoke last month before the Minnesota House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee to testify against HF1434, a broad-sweeping proposal to age-gate the internet, she began with

In defending free speech, privacy, and the right of young people to access truthful information about themselves, Rep. Leigh Finke (leighfinke.bsky.social) was not radical—she was right. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws | KQED Requiring internet users to verify their ages before accessing mature content may sound reasonable. Shouldn’t we be doing a better job protecting kids from online vulgarities? But free speech advocate...

"Sex Workers Tried to Warn Us About Age Verification Laws." We did not listen.

This International Sex Worker Rights Day, FSC invites you to our Know Your Rights webinar on Thursday, March 12th at 11am PT! 🗓️ Lotus Lain and Board Chair Jeffrey Douglas will cover First Amendment rights for spicy creators and staying safe at protests. Register here: tinyurl.com/KYR-FSC

A graphic that features a hand holding a megaphone & the following text: "March 3rd is International Sex Worker Rights Day This marks the 25th anniversary of the 2001 festival in Kolkata, India, where over 25,000 sex workers gathered, despite opposition from prohibitionist groups that pressured the government to revoke their permit. Today, as the current administration’s deep cuts to Title X & Medicaid gut public STI programs & reproductive care, the sexual economy is being pushed into a corner. As a self-regulatory body, PASS: Provides industry-standard STI testing policies that public systems are abandoning. Advocates for workers whose safety is most at risk under these new federal restrictions. Builds policies through a diverse community of volunteer public & sexual health practitioners, researchers, & adult industry workers - NOT by a government that seeks to ignore us. Stay safe, stay strong, stay PASS Certified. PASS"

Today is International Sex Worker Rights Day.
Stay safe, stay strong, stay PASS Certified. ✅

Free Speech Coalition Launches Affordable, Privacy-First Age Verification Solution for Members — Free Speech Coalition A private, compliant, and affordable age verification service that financially supports FSC's advocacy work. Starting today, Free Speech Coalition membership has a new benefit: access to …

Starting today, FSC members get access to PrivateAV, a privacy-first, cost-effective age verification solution built exclusively for our community.

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Right?! 😂

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#cornfactfriday

We do what we can! 🫶

A great opportunity for students! ⤵️

🚨 ATTENTION ADULT CREATORS!

Make sure you delete your Amazon wishlists before March 25th, unless you have a PO Box that you’re ok with being seen by buyers.

Fighting the Financial Discrimination Hydra Risk arguments are often used to circumvent constitutional rights of undesirable industries and lead to censorship, and their enforcement creates moving goal posts.

Read our latest article here: www.spankchain.com/newsroom/fig...

The war on #debanking didn’t end, it evolved.

After reputational risk was banned, institutions quietly replaced it with “financial risk” and “compliance risk.”

We break down:
• The Wise policy shift
• The loophole
• How regulators track complaints
• Steps to push back

No to Digital ID posted world map indicating leaks per country: BREAKING: ID age verification just had its biggest data leak yet, even bigger than Persona's. An unsecured database linked to IDMerit exposed ONE BILLION personal records across 26 countries. Age verification was always about one thing: violating your privacy. Source: Cybernews

And that's why we say NO to #AgeVerification

👉 Check the status in your country & whether you need to contact your lawmakers: tuta.com/blog/age-ver...

The Age Verification Trap Platforms are caught in a dilemma: enforce age restrictions or protect user privacy. How are they navigating this tricky terrain?

Age verification laws aren’t just about “protecting kids.” They’re about surveillance, data collection, and forcing adults to hand over sensitive info to access legal content.

This @spectrum.ieee.org article breaks down the real tech risks behind age verification.

spectrum.ieee.org/age-verifica...

When in Rome 😉

#cornfactfriday

Thank you for your thoughts 🩷

DO NOT SETTLE! 🚫

Wise words from @gloriahole420.bsky.social from our Love is in the Air SpankByte!

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💌 February is the month of love, and love inside the adult industry rarely fits into tidy boxes.

It exists alongside stigma, disclosure, vulnerability, power, politics, and radical honesty.

We asked creators directly about what love is like for them as SWers.