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I'm against misuse of real life likeness AI content, but also against credit card companies deciding what we get to see and hear based on the whims of the backw

I'm against misuse of real life likeness AI content, but also against credit card companies deciding what we get to see and hear based on the whims of the backwards ultra hard right conservative leadership at the credit card companies. I'm aware of a site that was blocked by credit card companies due to some controversial content, but survived and kept growing with a high rate of paying members. The payments space is now a bit more compilcated than just credit cards. There's alot of country/region specific methods i.e. SEPA in Europe, PayID in Australia, QR payments in Thailand and of course crypto. Many of these options are just as easy or easier to use than credit cards. Basically, the site started accepting lots of these different payment methods, you see different options depending on your country. Free members kept upgrading to paid members using these new options. This was more than 6 years ago and they still are blocked from taking credit cards.

nullc 1y ago
> whims of the backwards ultra hard right conservative leadership at the credit card companies the credit card companies executives like money, this isn't originating with them. It originated in the US federal government. (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point ) It works quite similar to the great firewall in China. ISPs are not so much told what they are to block, they're told Do Not Embarrass the Party or Else. So even as the pressure has come off in this administration, the memory of the or Else remains, and processors will continue to swat random shit in the hopes of appeasing an uncommunicative but clearly spiteful god.