LOS ANGELES — After a few days of positive mainstream media coverage of sex worker rights and hours after OnlyFans announced it had reversed their decision to ban porn from their platform beginning October 1, conservative voices renewed their call for adult content censorship through Fox News and the official organ of leading think tank the Claremont Institute.
Yesterday, Fox News’ host Laura Ingraham invited leading anti-porn activist, Laila Mickelwait, to offer commentary on OnlyFans’ decision.
Mickelwait — the mouthpiece of anti-porn ministry Exodus Cry and also currently the CEO of her own organization, which she describes as “non-profit,” that matches people with lawyers putting together class action lawsuits against porn companies using the FOSTA-SESTA exception to Section 230 — summarized her appearance via Twitter as, “Visa was sued for knowingly benefiting from the Pornhub sex trafficking venture, because of this card companies & banks are rightly afraid of the liability they face for doing business with Big Porn sites exposed for enabling and profiting from sex crimes.”
She added that, “credit card companies and banks have enacted strict moderation as well as age and unambiguous consent verification regulations for doing business with Big Porn sites to protect themselves from legal liability.”
Speaking to Fox News’ audience, Mickelwait demanded that OnlyFans ”clean up their mess and comply by October 1.”
Threats to Physical Violence
Today, the American Mind, the official organ of leading U.S. conservative think tank the Claremont Institute, published an essay by writer Spencer Klavan repeating NCOSE (formerly Morality in Media) talking points, which have included misinformation about the issues surrounding OnlyFans’ decisions, and blaming 1970s feminism for encouraging women to be employed outside the house as the source of the problem.
Based in Southern California, the Claremont Institute and their doctrines became central to the Republican Party and the Trump movement during the 2016 campaign, when they published a now notorious essay called “The Flight 93 Election,” arguing that moderate conservatives should become ardent Trump supporters because a Trump loss would mean a Hilary Clinton victory which would be equivalent to terrorists hijacking a plane. The job of all conservatives, particularly moderate ones, the essay argued, was to fall in line behind Trump and “storm the cockpit” of America.
Michael Anton, the author of “The Flight 93 Election,” was rewarded with a seat at the National Security Council after Trump’s victory.
Today’s Claremont Institute article also made a not-so-veiled call to physical violence against the owners of OnlyFans, which Klavan called “pimps,” “dirtbags,” “seedy low-lifes” and “secretive London millionaires.”
“In better days, anyone who suggested a scheme as noxious as OnlyFans would be hounded out of town with pitchforks,” the Claremont Institute incited.