OnlyFans Drifting towards Pornography: The Technological and Ethical Challenges of Open Platforms
商品編號：W27968
出版日期：2022/03/05
再版日期：2023/12/20
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商品主題：General Management/Strategy; Information Systems
商品類型：Case (Pub Mat)
涵蓋議題：platform;ethics;drifting;pornography;moral responsibility
難易度：4 - Undergraduate/MBA
內容長度：14 頁
地域：United Kingdom
產業：Arts; Entertainment; Sports and Recreation
事件年度：2020
OnlyFans, a paywalled platform primarily known for hosting adult content, had drifted towards sexually explicit content since COVID-19-related lockdowns began in March 2020. However, given pressure from its investors, in August 2021 OnlyFans announced it would ban sexually explicit content from its site later that year. Following the announcement, the company came under fierce criticism from its adult content creators, who maintained that OnlyFans owed its growth to pornography, an industry that had been evolving as technological advancements arose. On August 25, 2021, upon renegotiating with its capital providers, OnlyFans suspended the ban, though irreversible damage had been done. Considering the related information technology (IT) management and ethical issues, what should the chief executive officer of OnlyFans have done when OnlyFans’ different stakeholders pulled the platform in different directions and expressed opposing ethical views? How was an open platform like OnlyFans supposed to judge what was ethical and what was not? Was banning (or not banning) sexually explicit content ethical?
教學手冊：OnlyFans Drifting towards Pornography: The Technological and Ethical Challenges of Open Platforms - Teaching Note
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