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Exactly. Mastercard, Visa & Discover were perfectly happy to process PornHub payments for years - until enough external political pressure was applied. Religi
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Exactly. Mastercard, Visa & Discover were perfectly happy to process PornHub payments for years - until enough external political pressure was applied. Religious special interest lobbying groups like like Focus on the Family and NCOSE (formerly known as Morality in Media) were celebrating when they stopped, as were Republican politicians like Josh Hawley (https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1337111830976753672 https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1337111830976753672).
- Alupis 2y ago> until enough external political pressure was applied This doesn't pass the sniff test. You have been able to purchase porn for decades in various mediums - why would a website suddenly invoke the ire of the "morality police"? Even more-so when porn is freely available in almost every case when it comes to the internet. Really though, it has nothing to do with morality - it is straight up the risk profile of those websites. There's even a movie about the start of the online paid-porn industry and all the stuff they had to do to figure out how not to bleed money on chargebacks etc.
- pessimizer 2y ago> You have been able to purchase porn for decades in various mediums Have you? Or has it been patchwork and limited and volatile, with people being fined and jailed fairly arbitrarily? There were periods in the 80s and 90s where people were going through pornographic tapes and removing the swearing. > suddenly invoke Suddenly, after decades. Is the adjective just to make it sound more unlikely?