Not really a meme meme, but i felt like i had to :s

  • @[email protected]
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    I wonder how long this will last. The NSFW industry is insanely huge. If the current payment processors cut it off, that leaves a giant gap in the market just waiting to get filled (😏).

    If they hold firm on this, it might just be a rare opportunity for a new (and hopefully better) payment processor to enter the market.

    Or maybe just wider crypto adoption, idk.

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      I have no idea why all of a sudden payment processors care bout anything but money. What happened ?

  • niva
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    I don’t get it. Will they also ban sex shops, adult cinemas and every other offline adult entertainment thing that exist?

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      517 hours ago

      Now that weed is being widely accepted legally, porn is the new prohibition.

    • @[email protected]
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      616 hours ago

      cryptocurrency is absolutely not going to be a substitute. what happens when your client’s money drops in value halfway through working on their commission?

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    Imagine how many more “Thomas Matthew Crooks” are gonna come out of their basements if you ban their porn. Conservatives secretly love their porn. Might wanna rethink the ban.

    Or not, I don’t mind watching a IRL live movie about a rebellion instigated by…

    checks notes

    …banning porn 🤦‍♂️🤣

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        320 hours ago

        My God… All the “pro life” movements make so much more sense now! They actually don’t care about the women, they only want the children around. And worse off the children, the better for them!

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    This comic goes from 2020 to 1984, was this comic originally about idiots that compared wearing a face mask to wearing a jew star?

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      Worse, it was when Twitter banned Trump. This is just like when the Savage John asked to be exiled from the World State but the Controller forces him to engage in society to torture him.

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      There was a reddit sub where they take in unfunny comics (usually sexist) and then edit them to be funny. That’s how this actually became a meme.

  • Meursault
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    So, why doesn’t some other payment processor step in to fill in the demand gap that the others are willfully abdicating?

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      the economic moat of regulations and infrastructure that has to be overcome before you even can start acquiring customers. You would need a massive capital outlay just to start in last position to compete. Then you have to pay your sydadmins and sales and help desk and administration for how long before you have enough customers to break even? all on a gamble that the government won’t hamstring you on behalf of their corporate sponsors. and who is to say the rest of the financial world won’t cut you off; you can’t process payments if you can’t access users banks, it’s all cooperative between entities that benefit from it being a small club.

      all of this risk to capture the relatively small nsfw market looks like a bad gamble to me, even though i strongly support the nsfw market myself! I spent decades in e-commerce and nsfw ecommerce and it’s trickier than it might look.

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          that’s not just the smallest market it’s the most troublesome market which is one of the reasons it’s a hot potato. If you limited yourself to just nsfw you would still need the infrastructure to process any types of payments and still be at the bottom of the current players. You would be hamstringing yourself and it would be even tougher.

          NSFW and borderline legal stuff (like phone spyware apps) have a chargeback rate that is way higher than traditional retail. Users buy porn then charge it back to their credit card when the post nut clarity sets in. When i worked in the industry that was the constant battle from the retailer side; processors like CCBill were the most lenient but even they would cut you off if your chargeback rate was too high and it was always right on the border. Even on sex toys the chargeback rate is more than double just selling t shirts and stuffies.

          I don’t know the financial side and have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors. I can imagine being a small outfit it would be very difficult though if the margins were super thin.

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            have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors.

            They don’t have a lot of things to measure when attempting to address fraud, but that’s one of them.

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    121 day ago

    I was worried that this could make bitcoin seem useful but other people in here are explaining why bitcoin would still be an awful solution for this.

    So… are we going back to cash and checks? Will people need to mail envelopes of cash to furry vore artists?

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      Bitcoin wouldn’t be an awful solution to this, but there’s certainly a few better ones, such as

      • Visa and MC just being the opinionless payment providers they ought to be.
      • Regulation enforcing all payment providers to be similarly opinionless.
      • Ethereum, or another crypto more suited to many, fast payments
      • A layer-2 network over Bitcoin that can enable many fast payments, such as the lightning network.
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        • Monero for private, almost untraceable transaction, keep furry vore artist under cover and still paid in oppressive country.
  • @[email protected]
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    1762 days ago

    Undoing all the gains made during the sexual revolution. Conservatives taking us back to the puritanical dark ages.