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BlackScythe0 posted...

Not really. I'd been hearing about pornhub apparently having videos of actual rapes and stuff for the last year or so. It seems that campaign actually bore fruit. Anyways the alternative to what you're saying is that Visa and Mastercard shouldn't have the right to choose who they do business with?

I would suspect that every pornsite with user content has that kinda shit. Not that I'm condoning it by any means but again I don't really need Visa to be the one to figure that out. I'd be curious why law enforcement wouldn't or didn't do anything about it.

As much of a libertarian as I usually am, I'm not certain payment processors should be able to deny service outside of specific circumstances. Maybe illegal content is one of those circumstances. If the purview of government is the regulation of currency, I might argue that card transactions fall under that. Now more than ever given COVID has shifted everything even more so to digital transactions and it won't be long before we're under an almost entirely digital transaction based system. Let's say Pornhub moves to those whatever verification model that they're purporting. What if that illegal content should happen to creep back in? Do we continue to not allow them to do business?

I'm not certain what Visa or MC or these other companies are getting out of the deal. To my knowledge there hasn't been an outcry against Visa in any of these cases which (potentially) would lead to a loss of a business for them. I'm not certain you could do that if you wanted to. As a consumer could I even effectively boycott Visa? You couldn't even do stuff like Venmo or Paypal or whatever because at the root of each of those is a payment processor.

In any case - if you're against the acts PH is being accused of, and you should be, boycott Pornhub and its parent company Mindgeek. If PH is doing something illegal the government can and should prosecute them. Why do these payment processors need to be involved in the fight?

Anyway, over the past few years I've seen this weird russian nesting doll of anti-company sentiment against companies that do business with companies you don't like and I find it somewhat unsettling. Not so much that people would speak out against those companies but rather that companies like these processors are opting out of doing business seemingly on a whim. I don't believe for a moment it's for any sort of altruistic purpose.

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