Singapore:
A Singapore courtroom on Wednesday jailed and fined an OnlyFans star in a case his lawyer mentioned indicated authorities won’t tolerate the sharing of express content material on the adults-only platform.
Titus Low, 22, was fined Sg$3,000 ($2,087) for importing obscene pictures and movies, making him the primary content material creator on OnlyFans to be convicted for the offence within the city-state.
He was additionally sentenced to a few weeks in jail for defying a police order to not entry his OnlyFans account whereas he was underneath investigation.
He pleaded responsible to each prices.
Low posted on Twitter that he was “glad that is lastly over” and that he was “prepared to begin in a brand new chapter in life”.
“Errors have been made. A part of life’s studying course of, I suppose?”
His lawyer Kirpal Singh mentioned the case units a precedent for express content material on OnlyFans in Singapore.
Possession and transmission of obscene supplies are thought of offences within the conservative city-state.
“Since they’ve taken motion in opposition to Mr Titus Low, the federal government appears to have taken the stance that it doesn’t tolerate the sharing of obscene supplies on the OF platform,” Singh informed AFP.
“For different OF creators, this can be a query for them to undertake on their very own, particularly so in mild of what has transpired in Titus’ case.”
Low opened his account in April final 12 months, importing express pictures and video for paying subscribers that made him greater than US$240,000 after taxes.
He amassed greater than 6,000 energetic and inactive subscribers inside six months.
OnlyFans says it has at the least 150 million customers worldwide.
Police started investigating Low when a girl filed a police report final 12 months after discovering a video of him masturbating on her 12-year-old niece’s telephone, in line with courtroom paperwork.
Officers then seized Low’s OnlyFans account, modified his password and ordered him to not entry it.
However Low recovered the password, logged in and uploaded extra express pictures and movies.
Prosecutors within the case mentioned there have been no safeguards in place to make sure OnlyFans subscribers didn’t disseminate materials to the broader public.
Singh argued Low’s content material had been illegally leaked to web customers exterior the platform with out Low’s consent.
Anybody discovered transmitting obscene materials electronically in Singapore could be jailed for as much as three months, fined, or each.
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