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Sex work between consenting independent adults is something (while illegal) many do not find unethical. The main issue with backpage was they were supposedly no
by fossuser 6y ago
Sex work between consenting independent adults is something (while illegal) many do not find unethical. The main issue with backpage was they were supposedly not taking down or helping with trafficked people and children (at least this is vaguely what I recall when they got shut down).
(As an aside, the legality and ubiquitous acceptance of pornography and the illegality of sex work is a weird inconsistency in modern culture that I really don’t understand.)
Free speech protections in the US are pretty strong, but I’d suspect the harassment from that farms site is probably illegal.
Credit card processors are within their right to refuse to support white supremacy content (which I think is reasonable). BTC enabling these people isn’t great, but it also enables people in situations where it’s the government that’s objectionable (someone taking money for a blog about banned topics in China or Saudi for example).
In many hostile countries just getting your money out without it being taken by bad actors can be hard.
This resilience is a strength of BTC which can be used for good or evil. It’s also clearly an existing use case of the blockchain.