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** Sadly, TA isn't the only "review" board sponsored by the very vendors being reviewed. ''Yelp'' sells ads to restaurateurs, then makes some less-than-transparent decisions to selectively remove reviews as allegedly being from [[The Shill|shills]] or [[Sock Puppet|sockpuppets]]. The inherent conflict of interest hasn't gone unnoticed ([https://www.inc.com/staff-blog/2009/02/19/in_defense_of_yelp.html Inc], [https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericgoldman/2014/09/03/court-says-yelp-doesnt-extort-businesses/ Forbes]).

** There are even a few sites on the web which "review" call girls – guess who buys the intrusive ads which pay the bills there.

* OnlyFans, a online subscription plataform known by its high proportion of adult content and which became popular during 2020 thanks to the Covid-19 lockdowns limiting conventional sex work, as of 2021 has been making moves that point out to minimize, if not outright ban sex content, [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-16/onlyfans-is-said-to-seek-funding-at-valuation-above-1-billion in a quest to become more mainstream and get a higher valuation]. They already have silently changed their TOS to limit what kind of sex content is allowable in the plataform, as this [https://www.insider.com/onlyfans-creators-scrambling-after-public-sex-content-ban-2021-3 Insider report] explains.

* OnlyFans, a online subscription plataform known by its high proportion of adult content and which became popular during 2020 thanks to the Covid-19 lockdowns limiting conventional sex work, as of 2021 has been making moves that point out to minimize, if not outright ban sex content, [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-16/onlyfans-is-said-to-seek-funding-at-valuation-above-1-billion in a quest to become more mainstream and get a higher valuation]. They already have silently changed their TOS to limit what kind of sex content is allowable in the plataform, as this [https://www.insider.com/onlyfans-creators-scrambling-after-public-sex-content-ban-2021-3 Insider report] explains, and as of late summer of 2021 they have announced that [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/onlyfans-to-block-sexually-explicit-videos-starting-in-october they''ll ban sexually explicit videos starting in October].

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