More from the OpEd:

... I've no problem with porn per se. After all, as the musical Avenue Q pointed out, "The Internet is for Porn." But, when X/Twitter decided it would let people "share consensually produced and distributed adult nudity or sexual behavior," I wonder if company execs really thought it out.

We know why the company is doing this -- it's been losing money hand over fist. No matter how owner Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino try to twist the numbers, the social network is still bleeding money. It's hard to make a profit when you're paying $300 million a quarter to stay on top of your debt. ...

@#4 ... But Twitter was filled with porn long before Elon took it over. ...

I do not disagree.

But was XXX-rated porn encouraged by the CEO for its profit-generating ability?

@#7 ... For who ...

My guess would be, Mr Musk, hoping for more revenue.

More from the article...

... Porn makes money. It's as simple as that. According to Gitnux, a market research site, "In the United States alone, the pornography industry generates $12-14 billion in annual revenue." Globally, it generates about $97 billion. That's real money. Better still from where X sits, the platform doesn't need to play a penny for content. How porn creators make and pay for their content isn't their problem. X is just providing the funnel.

Mind you, the platform has long opened its doors to porn. Back in 2022, Dyson, Mazda, Forbes, and PBS Kids suspended their marketing campaigns and removed ads because they were appearing alongside tweets soliciting child pornography.

I myself have seen more than my fair share of vanilla porn ads featuring young women with blue checkmarks offering me love at reasonable prices. Really, I'm just there for tech and chess conversations, dad jokes, cute cat and dog photos, and to promote stories I find interesting. If I were looking for love in all the wrong places, I wouldn't be looking for it on X.

I'm far from the only one. As one Redditor put it recently, "Is Twitter just porn and porn bots now?" That, mind you, was before the company officially welcomed "Adult Content ... any consensually produced and distributed material depicting adult nudity or sexual behavior that is pornographic or intended to cause sexual arousal." (By the way, the consensus on that Reddit thread was that yes, X is little more than porn and right-wing rants these days.)
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@#1 ... It's hard to make a profit when you're paying $300 million a quarter to stay on top of your debt. ...

Yup.