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Jennifer Granick

Jennifer Granick

American attorney and educator

May 21, 2026

7:05
So do you wanna explain those two stories that you found?
7:08
Yeah, sure.
7:09
So, you know, Kickstarter recently made some rule changes about how it manages sexually explicit campaigns on its site, and it was trying to address a discrepancy between the payment processor, Stripe, which Kickstarter people use, and their rules about sexually explicit materials, and Kickstarter's rules, which were a little more liberal.
7:34
They also have regulations about sexually explicit material, but, you know, the devil is in the details, so there was some space there, and sometimes people's Kickstarters were getting frozen by Stripe, and Kickstarter wasn't really able to help them out or unfreeze the funds or that sort of thing.
7:49
So they decided, "Well, you know, here's our trust and safety decision.
7:52
Let's, like, close the gap between these two." And then they had to back down from that.
7:57
There was a cry out from the Kickstarter users that this was not what they wanted and interfered with their creativity and their campaigns and that sort of thing.

13 MINS LATER

20:44
Yeah

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