This meme¹ made the rounds here on Lemmy some days back.

And NSFW artists in the Furry fandom will often talk about how payment processors give them guff.

It holds true in lived memory, but like…

… Why?

I actually understand it for Google Ads and the like – Google, Metabook, Bytedance et al. are really just advertisement companies with a side-gig in providing online services, and if you’re an advertisement company, then “how other corporations perceive you” is what you live and die by, which forces the whole “corporate sanitisation” thing down on the users. – So like. It does make sense, even if it’s hateable.

But for the likes of Visa, and Master Card, and whatnot – It doesn’t? As I understand it their whole thing is they transfer money between parties and take a cut of the transactions. (and also give credit and charge interests on that and such) – Why the fuck would they care what those transactions are about, so long as people are… Transacting, and thus giving them their cut?

¹ Reuploaded as an image because I couldn’t be fucked to find it again.

  • vvilld@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I know when they were threatening to pull out of OnlyFans and Pornhub, the big concern the payment processors cited was child abuse. I don’t know to what degree that’s the entire story, so take it with a grain of salt.

    Their complaint was that the primary method those sites had to prevent child porn from being uploaded was reports from other users. By definition, this means that the site has to allow the child porn to be uploaded, and only then takes it down after it’s been reported. So someone must have seen it before it gets removed. They said they didn’t want to be associated with sites that share child porn. That’s why PornHub removed a TON of amateur content and changed their rules so that all users who upload content have to be verified on the site. That’s their new control to prevent child porn.