The Internet's Largest Kink Community Isn't Going To Moderate Itself

“In March 2017, Sandra, a 48-year-old submissive living in Alberta, Canada awoke to discover that the Erotic Hypnosis group she'd been a member of for years had suddenly disappeared from Fetlife.com, the largest online kink community in the world. The erasure had come without warning or explanations, and Erotic Hypnosis wasn't the only victim: groups and fetishes involving needles, blood play, race play and consensual non-consent also went away. The weeks after disappearances were a turbulent time. The kink community was scared. "It was like Fetlife was cut in half," Sandra said. "We felt we lost such a community of like-minded people. Some of us were scrambling to go to other places, and people were so fragmented and lost." 

This Digg article by Laura Yan looks into FetLife’s fight to meet censorship culture with self-moderation (or lack there of). Find the full piece here.