I thought this was a bit interesting, for seemingly no reason their payment processor decided to drop them with 0 notice and 0 communication. For anyone who isn't aware, as the name suggest....they host posters. That's it. Fans make posters, fans upload posters. As you'd expect this likely result in huge hosting costs, and they've had to shut down the website for now while they try to find a different way to take payments.
It definitely shows what the internet is on the way to look like, and despite the trannies reeeeeing it won't just be sites like Kiwifarms that are censored and chased offline but anything at anytime for any reason if some company feels slighted. Once they have that power good luck every taking it away
Credit card companies and payment processors are too anti-gun to be right-wing and too anti-porn to be left-wing. Do they just wanna grill or something?
Credit card companies and payment processors are too anti-gun to be right-wing and too anti-porn to be left-wing. Do they just wanna grill or something?
That's the one thing holding me back from just assuming all the major payment processors are just one giant globohomo conspiratorial entity designed to give the common man the illusion of choice. There are obviously concerted efforts within these organizations but if you try to look at the organizations as a whole they're being pulled in both directions
My best guess as to what's actually happening is that there are motivated individuals within these organizations who are able to exert inordinate amounts of authority over customers because the system is just too bloated and rotten to try and keep track of what anyone is actually doing, and because of the near-infinite amounts of money that these companies deal with only the most massive, your wal-marts, amazons, etc, amount to anything perceivable. I'm not familiar with ThePosterDB but something like a Kiwi Farms isn't even going to amount to a rounding error on their bottom line. You're probably going to have to get into multiple 0s of a percentage (0.0001, 0.00001, maybe even more) before you can even try to track not just something the size of the KF, but every KF sized entity that they service combined
The only other thing I can think of is that they're attempting to self-regulate in order to avoid legal regulation. Right leaning politicians are far more anti-porn than they are pro-gun so giving the pornographers a hard (but not that hard) time is probably enough to appease any mainstream republican, certainly enough of them that no one will be willing or able to put in the effort required and expend the political capital to pass any level of meaningful regulation. It wouldn't take that much coordination between CEOs (or probably someone a step or two removed from the CEO to give the CEO plausible deniability) to say "We're catching some heat and I might have to testify before congress later this year. We're going to halt processing for porn sites so that we can say we're doing our best to protect the kids so it's your turn to hold the hot potato for a while" and just pass them between themselves so that the porn industry is never actually at risk
