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The article mentions that sone sites were banned by Visa and Mastercard. This is quite distopian. If those sites are illegal, then they should be closed by the
by rvba 5y ago
The article mentions that sone sites were banned by Visa and Mastercard. This is quite distopian. If those sites are illegal, then they should be closed by the court.
Now it looks that credit card companies are moral police who can close whoever they dont like (mostly because of some bad press that looked like a "hit piece" by other porn site competition).
Payment processors should start be consodered utilities at this point. One cannot run a business without that and without a bank account. Yet those processors seem to think that they are moral police.
- TheCoelacanth 5y agoPayment processors aren't shutting them down because of morality. They're doing it because of high risk of chargebacks.
- Beltalowda 5y agoSo they stopped taking payments for PornHub due to the high risk of chargebacks after people campaigned for them to stop taking PornHub payments for entirely different reasons. Right. That's one hell of a coincidence.
- ilove196884 5y agoAn expensive lawsuit is a no go.
- qball 5y ago>One cannot run a business without that and without a bank account. Yet those processors seem to think that they are moral police. A fact that the US government has been most eager to exploit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point). Whether the most recent denial of service attacks by payment processing utilities on pornography-serving sites are back-channel mandates or not, of course, is still an open question- but to the citizen the result is the same.