LogFAQs > #948390744

Mead posted...

Some people are acting like there is suddenly no porn on the internet anymore

Do you not find it at all disturbing that a couple of companies (Visa and Mastercard) can just decide that the business in question is no longer allowed to do business? Because thats kinda what happened. The cause is good in that they're, at least attempting, to reduce the amount of disgusting acts done to these women and men. But what's to stop Visa and/or Mastercard from doing it any other circumstance?

I also find it odd that Visa, Mastercard, and Discover appear to be in lockstep with each other. There are a few other situations where they've refused to process payments for other sites/people as well. Seems like collusion to me. Furthermore, I don't need those companies to be the arbiters of justice. That's what the government exists for. If sites like PH are doing things that are illegal, then the gov needs to investigate the issue.

The justification from each of the processors is 'violations of our standards prohibiting unlawful content on their site'. If that's their justification then virtually every website with user generated content is going to violate that rule because every website with user generated content will at some point have illegal content on it. Even Gamefaqs has been host to illegal content at some point. Should they shut this site down too?

I just find the whole thing to be bizarre that these payment processors can and do decide who gets to do business in the world and if you're doing something they don't like that they can just say 'Fuck you guy' and you're done.

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I promise that if the game stinks I will make a topic about how I hate it and you can all laugh at me - Mead on Fallout 76