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Let’s get practical: Care about Internet privacy because it keeps your loved...
There is a key point continually getting glossed over in this whole FetLife disaster that I feel needs to be stated. It is the direct line that connects the dots between FetLife’s silencing of abuse...
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The privacy information FetLife doesn’t want you to read
EDITORIAL NOTE: This piece is long because it reiterates important information from prior posts published over the last several months. For those of you who haven’t the time or patience to read this in...
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FetLife Alleged Abusers Database Engine (FAADE) mentioned in NY Observer
Last week, the New York Observer published an article by Rachel R. White about the BDSM Scene’s endemic abuse problem. An excerpt: While the [BDSM] scene’s mantra—“safe, sane and consensual”—is heard...
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Tracking rape culture’s social license to operate online
The FetLife Alleged Abusers Database Engine (FAADE), a simple tool enabling any Internet user to report a profile on the fetish dating website FetLife.com as belonging to a person who allegedly...
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Help FetLife’s Rape Culture FAADE Away – Transcending Boundaries Conference 2012
Last October, I introduced the FetLife Alleged Abusers Database Engine (FAADE) at the 2012 Transcending Boundaries Conference. After the keynote, the conference organizers invited anyone attending to...
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My (satirical) application to be hired as a FetLife Media Caretaker
Today, FetLife.com announced they are looking to grow their team of administrators to deal with media issues. Since I’ve had a great many interactions around FetLife’s media policies, I thought I’d...
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FetLife iCalendar: Hate FetLife, but want to know what’s going on in your...
Hi folks! I imagine that we would be likely to have a conversation that goes something like this: ME: “FetLife is shit.” YOU: “I know, I hate FetLife. But it’s where I learn about what’s going on in my...
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Ready to ditch FetLife? Tools to make the transition easier.
All right folks. FetLife’s founder, John Baku, unleashed a wave of pedophilic comments on an unsuspecting 9 year old boy. (Disgusting.) FetLife’s new community manager, Susan Wright, is telling a woman...
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How to use the FetLife to WordPress exporter/converter (video)
In this video, I’ll show you how to move your FetLife Writings and Pictures to a WordPress blog with a few clicks of your mouse using the free FetLife to WordPress converter. If you found this tool...
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Last October, I introduced the FetLife Alleged Abusers Database Engine (FAADE)…
(Note: This post is a republication of my original post from January, 2013.) Last October, I introduced the FetLife Alleged Abusers Database Engine (FAADE) at the 2012 Transcending Boundaries...
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FetLife Video Sharer: share pay-walled content with the whole Internet, for free
Did you know? Premium content that you “have to” pay for to watch on FetLife can actually be viewed by anyone, even if they never log in to a FetLife account (because FetLife “privacy” and “security”...
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The Internet has been doing “report abuse” wrong, because its admins are...
The most recent report filed in the Predator Alert Tool for FetLife alleges abuse on the part of a FetLife Carebear: It reads, in full: Fetlife caretaker FAIL. This lady could see that I was being...
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Remember all those FetLife privacy problems? They’re still problems.
Anaiis Flox has a new feature over on the Slantist today titled, “You Can Browse FetLife Profiles Without Logging In.” I’ll suggest an alternate title: “Everything maymay said about FetLife years ago...
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Why attacking Predator Alert Tools backfire on attackers
One of the most contested features of the Predator Alert Tools is that the report forms are unmoderated. This means anyone can add any information they want to the databases without oversight. If...
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What happened to Predator Alert Tool for FetLife?
This post is a brief update in Q&A form to address the most common questions I’m getting about the Predator Alert Tool for FetLife service disruption. Why can’t I share information about a sexual...
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According to their customer records, FetLife is a porn site, not a social...
There was a predictable outcry from pro-BDSM bloggers like Rebecca Hiles when the “FetLife Meat List,” a simple spreadsheet cataloging the FetLife usernames and basic profile info of 30,000 users who...
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On release of 12th installment of the FetLife Meat List, publication of third...
Last week, Mikandi, the third-party app store entirely devoted to porn apps, published a feature article titled “The FetLife Meatlist: How A Social Network Failed Its Users” detailing the continued...
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Search for FetLife profiles by all profile fields...
So, this has been available for quite a while, but now that FetLife is actively removing links to it from venues they control (according to this tweet, which was part of this conversation, anyway), I...
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My (satirical) application to be hired as a FetLife Media Caretaker
Today, FetLife.com announced they are looking to grow their team of administrators to deal with media issues. Since I’ve had a great many interactions around FetLife’s media policies, I thought I’d...
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FetLife iCalendar: Hate FetLife, but want to know what’s going on in your...
Hi folks! I imagine that we would be likely to have a conversation that goes something like this: ME: “FetLife is shit.” YOU: “I know, I hate FetLife. But it’s where I learn about what’s going on in my...
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