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>violations that result in administrative action are permanent with no chance of appeal. Any funds on the account will not be eligible for payout. This is just

>violations that result in administrative action are permanent with no chance of appeal. Any funds on the account will not be eligible for payout. This is just theft, no? I'm sure they've got a ToS that lets them do whatever they want, but it's nevertheless ironic to commit an actual immoral act in order to prevent depictions of immoral[1] acts. If they don't want people making money off of this stuff on their platform, they need to stop it before they allow the developer to sell their work to a customer there. [1] Presumably this includes, eg., consensual BDSM, which I wouldn't consider immoral. But then, I'm not Australian, so what right do I have to determine what other people should be allowed to do?

ToucanLoucan 1y ago
> If they don't want people making money off of this stuff on their platform They don't care if people make money off anything as long as they get a slice. This is strictly about cutting costs. As said elsewhere, adult content has much higher rates of "fraud" (both actual fraud, and what people lie saying is fraud when the Mrs. sees it on the statement) especially charge-backs. The companies don't want to deal with the charge-backs so they're pressuring platforms to remove the content from sale. None of this is about morality, sex workers, sex work or any of the other THINK OF THE CHILDWEN nonsense. It's just cheap fuck corpos trying to weasel out of as many of the expenses of their businesses as they can fucking manage, because fuck knows VISA is really hurting for money these days. This shit is exhausting.
- jhanschoo 1y ago
  I don't see prima facie how this reason holds up for Valve which also faced similar pressure. Valve has robust internal refund processes, that I suppose many people use instead of chargebacks because it is more convenient. Perhaps it also suffers from the same problem as adult content and service operators with respect to just its adult content, but I would need more proof of that.

ToucanLoucan 1y ago

> If they don't want people making money off of this stuff on their platform They don't care if people make money off anything as long as they get a slice. This is strictly about cutting costs. As said elsewhere, adult content has much higher rates of "fraud" (both actual fraud, and what people lie saying is fraud when the Mrs. sees it on the statement) especially charge-backs. The companies don't want to deal with the charge-backs so they're pressuring platforms to remove the content from sale. None of this is about morality, sex workers, sex work or any of the other THINK OF THE CHILDWEN nonsense. It's just cheap fuck corpos trying to weasel out of as many of the expenses of their businesses as they can fucking manage, because fuck knows VISA is really hurting for money these days. This shit is exhausting.

jhanschoo 1y ago
I don't see prima facie how this reason holds up for Valve which also faced similar pressure. Valve has robust internal refund processes, that I suppose many people use instead of chargebacks because it is more convenient. Perhaps it also suffers from the same problem as adult content and service operators with respect to just its adult content, but I would need more proof of that.