Could you provide the source? I can only see the mismatch in frequencies, which, well, seems like bs

I worked for a self publishing company long, long ago. It turns out, most of our best selling authors made NSFW stuff. Eventually our payment processor complained. So our CFO called around to a bunch of big porn companies and asked them which payment processors they used. Those companies were fine.

A guide book to female domination. Some sissy stuff with mature cover art. Right next to history books and Earthbound fan art. I felt good about it. Serving a real need.

A shame we never got Chuck.

I'm laughing, man. Made my day

I'm wondering if this is Visa and MasterCard covering their arses legally.

When you buy on credit card you get extra protections like chargebacks and section 75 so if a company goes bust or doesn't do what you paid then for then the credit card company gives you your money back and the company owes them money rather than you.

But is that a double edged sword so if you buy something technically illegal where you live (and there's a lot of odd local porn laws), then they're somehow on the hook for that too?

I suspect a lot of stores are just pulling what is probably a tiny percent of their revenue because they don't have a good way to prevent you buying just that on CC or working out which territory it's legal in, under threat of having all their credit card charging facilities taken away...

The problem is not so much "paying for stuff without payment processors". On an individual level, that can fairly easily be achieved.

The problem is the chilling effect that the puritanical positions of these payment processors have on the creation of art. What are you going to do with your crypto if the game or art you wanted to buy gets self-censored for "compliance" or simply isn't created anymore?

Crypto without capitalists is pretty cool

Here's the issue: How do you put money into crypto or take it out? A payment processor is how.

Crypto mostly just reinvents the same things. Its also usually not actually anonymous, as has been proved many times.

The problem has been solved to some extent, at least. Unregulated casinos and Polymarket are entirely banned in the US, but citizens here regularly bypass it with VPNs and transferring stablecoin. In the case of obscene games, it's not illegal (yet at least) so the only thing needed would be the infrastructure for accepting and distributing crypto payments.

None of it is without flaws, but many small websites managed to make it work without issues. The main issue would probably be convincing enough people to move to crypto to create a stable user base. I'd imagine some would be "driven" enough to jump through all these hoops though. Personally I'd like to see a platform that is free of this anti-democratic fuckery going on.

Personally, I hate crypto, but I like the idea of crypto. Like decentralized currency, useable anywhere by anyone, independent of locale/government, is an awesome ideal. What drives me away from it is the fact that it’s not reliable (it fluctuates all over the place, and there’s no guarantee what you have one day will be there tomorrow), it eats more power than a country just to track transactions, there’s tons of different ones, and it’s generally used for scams and illicit purchases. Which I suppose is part of its reason it be, but no legit storefront I use takes it.. probably for the first reason.

It also doesn’t help that it’s got a bad rap from all the crazy crypto-bro/fly-by-night scams and NFT stuff.

Payment processors should have no authority whatsoever to monitor or police the transactions they facilitate. This would be true even if these two companies weren’t an illegal trust. Between the two of them, they effectively have a global monopoly on digital commerce.

I fully admit in advance I know very little about crypto, so please someone correct me if I’m wrong.

Isn’t part of crypto a detailed log of transactions?

Didn't they get that really fun single dev Indy game "Schedule 1" blocked in Australia because you make and sell drugs?

Also shout out to the dev, very fun game! Hope they get the game unblocked.

It took just over a thousand of these shitheads badgering these companies to make this happen.

May I suggest adopting Brazil's pix system, which has been the latest target of these companies and the reason why Trump is now trying to bully the country? Would be quite funny if Visa ended up losing even more ground to the very same system it is trying to sabotage.