A Singapore court on Tuesday sentenced a content creator OnlyFans to three weeks in prison for violating a police order to stay off the adult subscription site while he was under investigation for allegedly violating obscenity laws.
Titus Low, 22, pleaded guilty to the charge and another charge of transmitting obscene material for which he was fined 3,000 Singapore dollars (about US$2,000), according to court documents. He will begin his prison term on October 26, his lawyer told CNN .
The sale and production of pornographic materials is illegal in singapore but that hasn’t stopped OnlyFans from building a following in the conservative city-state — where watching pornography isn’t against the law, but sites are restricted by state censors.
Low is the first OnlyFans creator to be sued in Singapore. He joined the site famous for its “Not safe for work” (NSFW) content in April 2021 and at one point had over 3,000 paid subscribers to his channel – mostly men.
His bisexual image defied taboos in the country, which in August announced it would repeal a colonial-era law that criminalized gay sex.
Police arrested Low in December last year after a man complained three months earlier that he found an obscene video of the OnlyFans star on his 12-year-old niece’s phone.
Low was later released on bail on the condition that he not access his OnlyFans account.
In court on Tuesday, prosecutors said that Low had violated that order and “impaired police investigations to further his financial interests” on multiple occasions.
Low admitted to the court that he did not comply with the police order. He told the court that he contacted OnlyFans to regain access to his account several times because he felt “obliged” to continue providing content to his subscribers.
Defense attorney Kirpal Singh told CNN that Low’s adult content was “redistributed without his knowledge, authorization or consent”.
“He’s also not posting on the platform and wants to finally move on from this episode,” Singh said, adding that Low had no plans to appeal.
THE CNN reached out to OnlyFans for comment but had no response at the time of publishing.
Low told CNN on Wednesday (12) that he was “prepared” to serve his sentence in prison. “I plan to meditate a lot and read,” he said. And he also refused to rule out a return to OnlyFans.
“It would not be fair if the ban continued. I love what I do and that’s what I’m known for. My nudes are already out there,” he said.
“But that is also the nature of OnlyFans. The creators have little control over our material leaking or recirculating without our knowledge and this is not something I can control, but I will definitely be more careful going forward.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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