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That's the real story here - payment processors and the US gov are policing morality by making it impossible to run a for-profit NSFW business: https://www.eff

That's the real story here - payment processors and the US gov are policing morality by making it impossible to run a for-profit NSFW business: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/payment-processors-are-still-policing-your-sex-life https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/payment-processors-are... Tumblr and similar sites are just a casualty of monopolistic payment processors doing the bidding of the government. IMO - as long as what you're doing is legal you should be able to make money for it. Anything less is censorship.

nopriorarrests 8y ago
oh come on. tumbler is aiming for sweet sweet sweet branding advertising dollars, which has nothing to do with payment processors. they are looking for a hefty 1-10-100M transaction from BMW, P&G or Unilever. payment processors are not in this business at all.
- halfjoking 8y ago
  Tons of advertisers pay them (large and small). How is that not using a payment processor to process advertiser payments? It's true that there might be other reasons though... like SESTA/FOSTA scaring them enough that they self-censor. Whatever the reasons are the climate for making a NSFW business are terrible... you're way better off making a marijauna startup these days.
- ndnxhs 8y ago
  Most payment processors ban selling adult content and the ones that don't explicitly ban it will often kick you off. A developer posted about it a little bit ago (since deleted). People pay for porn subs and then their wives see it on the bank account so the one who paid makes up a story about how they must have been hacked and calls the bank to report the transaction. All these reports end up with the websites account getting shut down. Its also an issue with selling marijuana in the places where its legal. In the modern world, visa and MasterCard have the final word on what businesses can exist.
- romwell 8y ago
  >oh come on. tumbler is aiming for sweet sweet sweet branding advertising dollars Right, because with all the data collected about users, and all the data mined from all the pages, in the year 2019 it's still impossible to tell that a particular blog is NSFW to avoid showing an shampoo ad on it. What is targeting for 5000.

nopriorarrests 8y ago

oh come on. tumbler is aiming for sweet sweet sweet branding advertising dollars, which has nothing to do with payment processors. they are looking for a hefty 1-10-100M transaction from BMW, P&G or Unilever. payment processors are not in this business at all.

halfjoking 8y ago
Tons of advertisers pay them (large and small). How is that not using a payment processor to process advertiser payments? It's true that there might be other reasons though... like SESTA/FOSTA scaring them enough that they self-censor. Whatever the reasons are the climate for making a NSFW business are terrible... you're way better off making a marijauna startup these days.
ndnxhs 8y ago
Most payment processors ban selling adult content and the ones that don't explicitly ban it will often kick you off. A developer posted about it a little bit ago (since deleted). People pay for porn subs and then their wives see it on the bank account so the one who paid makes up a story about how they must have been hacked and calls the bank to report the transaction. All these reports end up with the websites account getting shut down. Its also an issue with selling marijuana in the places where its legal. In the modern world, visa and MasterCard have the final word on what businesses can exist.
romwell 8y ago
>oh come on. tumbler is aiming for sweet sweet sweet branding advertising dollars Right, because with all the data collected about users, and all the data mined from all the pages, in the year 2019 it's still impossible to tell that a particular blog is NSFW to avoid showing an shampoo ad on it. What is targeting for 5000.