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That’s not why they want to do the it. They want to do it because money and power.

They meaning everybody.

What the fuck are you even talking about? I cant tell if youre defending this shit, or having some weird view where you think youre against it. Either way, eww.

This person is also a racist. Not worth talking to.

Every acccusation is a confession etc etc

There’s way more direct ways to manipulate the crypto market than whatever this would be.

You think Visa is run by crazy evangelicals?

And that attitude is exactly why the progressive movement is collapsing around you. I’m not talking about what you personally are into, I’m talking about the entitlement of assholes who are so perverted that they think they are OWED the delivery of pornography through public spaces. Get a fucking grip and people might take you seriously again.

People are entitled to equality in service. Porn is no more illegal then alcohol. If you can go to a grocery store and buy a bottle of whiskey on credit, then why should porn be treated any different?

Dude. Kids aren’t being delivered alcohol.

Get a fucking grip.

Dude. Stores have age restrictions. If they lie and steal their parents card… thats a parental issue.

I feel like I used to know but I’m getting kinda sleepy and it’s sorta hard to breathe

Sorry for the double reply.

In the short-ish term, I think a good way to address this would be if governments across the globe had laws like “a service provider cannot refuse to provide services to a platform based on the nature of the lawful content within that platform”.

Odds are Visa/MC/PP wouldn’t even try to fight against such a law - they don’t really mind servicing itch.io, from their PoV it would be yet another customer; the problem is pressure exerted by those Protestant nutjobs in Australia, but once a law is present they can’t exert that pressure.

You really can’t be honest at all about the MASSIVE difference in access, can you?

Try and take your hand out of your pants before you reply again.

And “how” did they pressure the payment processors? Pressure on central deciders or what? Spicy data on them?

And couldn’t they influence elections that way?

Personally i have no interest in such content. I simple do not wish to have corpations making decisions for us peasants without going throigh the proper democratic process.

And there isnt much difference, in fact nothing stops people from buying alcohol online.

Literally not one honest bone exists in your body, huh?

How am I being dishonest? Please explain.

This law sounds good in theory, but there’s a lot of lawful content that is really undesirable (scams, spam, deepfakes, hate speech, etc.) and platforms need to be able to deal with that. The law isn’t fast or flexible enough to keep up, and every country has different (or laughable) definitions of some of these things.

The YouTube community guidelines are a pretty good overview of whatever shady shit people are trying to pull these days: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9288567?hl=en

but there’s a lot of lawful content that is really undesirable (scams, spam, deepfakes, hate speech, etc.)

• scam - AFAIK already illegal in most of the world.
• spam - should be illegal, at least in the most egregious forms.
• deepfakes - it depends a lot on what is being done with the deepfake in question; plenty of them (like non-consensual sexualisation of someone) are either illegal or should be.
• hate speech - it targets the dignity, well-being and often the lives of marginalised groups. Should be illegal.

Are you noticing the pattern? Those are things that should be handled by a government in defence of the public interest of everyone, not by a platform in defence of private interest of its shareholders. Even if a population has weak control over its government, it’s more than it has over a corporation.

The law isn’t fast or flexible enough to keep up and every country has different (or laughable) definitions of some of these things.

This problem is not a good reason to create an even bigger problem. Like the one we’re seeing - private interest dictating what should be allowed or not in the public sphere.

And, seriously, if the problem was just porn who would give a fuck. (Okay, some people would, some wouldn’t.) The problem is that those corporations will happily target any group, any interest, any person, as soon as they deem profitable; because they have the power to do so, so porn is in this context only the canary of the mine. And this power needs to be curtailed.

But let’s say, for the sake of argument, that implementing such a wide law would be unviable. Well, focus on financial service providers then - banks, payment processors, and the likes. Problem solved.