Karistina Lafae
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I'm trying to listen to the Spaces Q&A from earlier today.

CB, you are calling someone else disingenuous, but you are being very disingenuous in your characterization of the people asking questions yesterday.

I'm #Queer . I'm #disabled . I'm #sexpositive . This was not cishet white women 1/
05:55 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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telling you, a Black man, that you have to change your policies. They were asking for clarifications in your policy that is very unclear. The "romance writers" you're demonizing include queer, trans, Black, POC, disabled, and otherwise diverse. It is not an insult to include the queer community 2/
05:57 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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among the concerned users whose work is sex-adjacent. As a nonbinary bisexual person who has tried the OnlyFans route but didn't have the energy to promote my account. I don't think it's unreasonable to ask if sex workers can share links to their work as long as the spout isn't sexually explicit. 3/
06:00 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
No one was equating you with Musk for not allowing porn on here. The Musk-like behavior is how you're characterizing the concerned individuals as trouble makers who want to post porn on here, that they're all white, all cishet, and that they want Spoutible to fail. These are people who wanted 4/
06:01 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
Spoutible to be their new home. They wanted to know whether or not they could share their explicit work in a nonexplicit way. ("Hey, I make sexy art on OnlyFans. Here's a link to my page." I still don't know if #Spoutible allows it or not. I'm not active on OF, but my disabled queer friends are.) 5/
06:04 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
People asking for clarification about edge cases in the adult content policy is NOT "negativity." People were trying to ask good faith questions and were called trolls and accused of bullying. CB, you're the one who's still bullying more than the 30 people who were active when this started. 6/
06:06 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
I have a blind Black queer friend on Twitter who is a sex worker watching this whole thing unfold. She is offended that you've made this out to be a racist attack on you. Your spouts demonizing people and misrepresenting their questions as wanting to post porn make people like her unsafe. 7/
06:11 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
And she's not the only one. I don't have just "1 Black friend." The people who want more clarification about what "sexually suggestive" includes are diverse and a FAR larger population than the "30 trolls" you keep referring to in order to make yourself out to be a victim.

Yes you are a Black 8/
06:13 PM - Feb 21, 2023 (Edited)
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Karistina Lafae
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man, but you are cishet, you're financially secure & in a position of power, who is wielding that power as a bludgeon against people who have LEGITIMATE QUESTIONS about nuances and edge cases that AREN'T PORN but could be considered "sexually suggestive." People's livelihoods are rarely G-rated. 9/
06:17 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
A lot of us are neurodivergent and need concrete answers to questions rather than just having the same wording copied and pasted as a response. (Currently listening to the furry question which mentioned neurodivergence.) It's upsetting that those of us still asking these questions are getting 10/
06:19 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
labelled as "coordinated attacks" because we have valid concerns about the way other people asking questions and suggesting that clarifications are needed are "attacking" Spoutible. The platform is young & it's concerning that constructive criticism is still being characterized as an unjustified 11/
06:23 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
attack. Your apology at the beginning of this recording was NOT adequate for the harm you've caused people. This includes the users you suspended AND those who share the concerns of those users.

P.S. Long threads are common among neurodivergent people, disabled people, and activities of all 12/
06:26 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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kinds. The fact that people came up with long Twitter threads about what happened with Courtney et al is NOT a sign that this was any type of "planned, coordinated attack." It was the result of marginalized people getting upset about how the CEO interacted with marginalized people who wanted to 13/
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06:28 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
know where the boundaries actually are. Asking questions is not an attack. When you don't answer questions & people are left to speculate, ennumerating their concerns about edge cases on Twitter isn't disinformation. It's a list of unanswered questions & concerns because your spouts are HOSTILE 14/
06:31 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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Karistina Lafae
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In response to Karistina Lafae.
to people who can't find clarification from statements like "we support sex workers" because that doesn't answer specific concerns. People are making Twitter threads because they are afraid they will be met with the same hostility if they bring those concerns to you on here. 15/
06:38 PM - Feb 21, 2023
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