Payment processors are controlled by puritanical conservatives and have been for decades. It’s not about anime, sex workers have been pushed to worse and worse places because of these evil companies.
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radiant_bloom@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Can someone explain what this is about in a way that I can understand ? I know nothing about this situation, in fact I don’t even know much about animé in general which this seems to be about.
shani66@ani.social 6 months ago
poplargrove@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Reading the sources you’ll see the puritanical conservatives pushed to ban sexual depictions of minors and rape on one website, and changing the names of such tags on the other two.
Not exactly deserving sympathy like in cases of credit card companies not allowing usage to pay sex workers.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Some things others didn’t mention:
- FOSTA and SESTA, they’re laws designed to remove the “good Samaritarian” clauses from many service providers when it comes to sex related stuff. It is very vaguely written, so likely it is the thing that made Visa and Mastercard overpolice things, not the anti-proshippers.
- I have read that the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (formerly Morality in Media) uses bad faith arguments to get a de-facto ban on porn. One of these efforts included the aforementioned FOSTA and SESTA. The other seems to be there being a pressure campain to get Visa and Mastercard drop porn altoghether, thus the only real option for paying for it being in either cash or crypto.
A lot of these organizations try to first make more reasonable sounding arguments before they push for less and less reasonable ones. In the UK, they banned not just the “just drawings”, but also forms of “extreme” pornography, as it could normalize “dangerous sexual acts”. I have a feeling that it has the very same people behind both of them.
Heavybell@lemmy.world 6 months ago
These other guys have given a good gist of the issue, but IMO it’s inaccurate. The problem lies with society and capitalism at the end of the day. Basically, credit processors are in it for the money, obviously. And they view porn as a risk to profits, because puritanical society means that statistically a lot of sex related purchases lead to charge backs when someone finds out and the purchaser denies having any knowledge of it. So as a result the credit processors don’t allow their services to be used for sex stuff.
This is not to say that the credit processors AREN’T led by puritans with an agenda. Just that their profit motive probably has more to do with it.
Dreadfighter23@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Basically the major credit card companies are forcing their puritism and morality onto others. They are forcing these services that host nsfw content to remove or hide it or they won’t be allowed to use the credit card services. That’s where the big debate of censorship comes in. Where its okay to see violence but god forbid you see a boob.