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I wonder what’s the force behind the “PayPal / Stripe won’t accept transactions on NSFW content” drive;
Somehow marketplace owners are not allowed to disclose who is threatening to pull the plug behind their negotiations.
It is not like they are threaten by a 3-letter national agency and secret court orders?
Or are these 4-6 letter corporations (PAYPAL, STRIPE, VISA etc.) so powerful they effectively have the same chokehold on everyone?
@bitinn When I worked at Stripe, the two justifications I heard regularly (not sure how true they were), were:
- Card processors don't like handling this, and will kick us off if we started accepting them.
- Lots of risk associated as lots of chargeback from things like kids stealing their parents credits cards, and then the parents issuing a chargeback, lots of risk not only costs us more money but makes processors mad at us.
@bitinn There's no need for any conspiracies. US "anti pimping" bills have very broad rules about "knowingly" profiting from sex work or trafficking. This is what gets sex workers e.g. kicked out of rentals and other just normal services. Because making money from them for any reason might be construed as knowingly profiting. The payment oligopolists are the same: When a service serves nsfw content, some of which might be sex work, becomes big enough to not be deniable, they shut it down.