They seem to claim that “anything legal is ok with them”, but they’ve always tightly controlled (legal) porn and did this with OnlyFans too. I’ll paste a previous comment of mine here:
I didn’t know this till I heard a podcast series about this, but the global rule makes for porn are Visa and Mastercard. They decide what “goes too far” and remove a site from their service if they don’t like it, effectively cutting off all revenue streams and killing the site. They did this with porn sites and threatened OnlyFans. There are a bunch of rules they’ve written for the industry (e.g. fingering an orofice with4 fingers was acceptable, but when the thumb goes in then it becomes “fisting” and this used to be unacceptable), but many rules are unwritten and have to be guessed.
I think this is the podcast series for anyone interested (although I heard this a long time ago and I’m not sure if it was a different series and I’m not going to listen again to confirm).
While I find this fascinating, what these monopolies do with their power, I wonder more what the alternatives are… There where some interesting Economist articles on major changes to financial techs aiming to break this though that was years ago and I don’t remember much other then discussion of micro loans and government cryptos schemes
They seem to claim that “anything legal is ok with them”, but they’ve always tightly controlled (legal) porn and did this with OnlyFans too. I’ll paste a previous comment of mine here:
I didn’t know this till I heard a podcast series about this, but the global rule makes for porn are Visa and Mastercard. They decide what “goes too far” and remove a site from their service if they don’t like it, effectively cutting off all revenue streams and killing the site. They did this with porn sites and threatened OnlyFans. There are a bunch of rules they’ve written for the industry (e.g. fingering an orofice with4 fingers was acceptable, but when the thumb goes in then it becomes “fisting” and this used to be unacceptable), but many rules are unwritten and have to be guessed.
I think this is the podcast series for anyone interested (although I heard this a long time ago and I’m not sure if it was a different series and I’m not going to listen again to confirm).
While I find this fascinating, what these monopolies do with their power, I wonder more what the alternatives are… There where some interesting Economist articles on major changes to financial techs aiming to break this though that was years ago and I don’t remember much other then discussion of micro loans and government cryptos schemes
Fix would be government regulation.
Alternatives are sending cash by mail, accepting bank ACH, and of course, cryptocurrency.
I wonder if the Canadian e transfer system would be helpful. I literally used to buy drugs using e-transfer and I’m pretty confident they still deal.
Crypto. I mean everything except the banking system