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hobbyist game developer, professional procrastinator, and kink trash goblin


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nicky
@nicky

i cant wrap my head around why we're letting payment processors determine if we get to buy/sell pornography? the system is just like that? and the system's definition of what counts as porn is getting, shall we say... broad?

im no booklearnin politics knower but i feel like we gotta start doing some. stuff. soon


distressedegg
@distressedegg

it's never, ever been about "the children". it's always been about wringing the joy from our bodies until we're too weak to stand. as porn creators and porn fans, we need to have each other's backs right now, because it looks increasingly likely that no one else will until our current hegemony breaks.


SixArmedSweater
@SixArmedSweater

Christianity, capitalism, and white supremacy thrive off desperation and misery, and seek to inflict it whenever possible. It breeds vulnerability, vulnerability to emotional manipulation, vulnerability to abuse, vulnerability to radicalization. Happy people are harder to control, so they are crushed.

Until we destroy Christianity, until the last capitalist rots in their grace, until white supremacy and the very concept of race are wiped from this Earth, we will never be free.

Arm yourselves. Defend yourselves. We have only each other.


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in reply to @nicky's post:

this is a big reason why i hope someone figures out how to do a cash-like payment method that doesn't involve enormous energy and pollution production bc a big part of the issue is that these are the kinds of problems we would just solve by, using cash

the short answer is that allowing consolidation in payment processors, and the decline of cash with the rise of online transactions, created this situation where it only took some vague legislation to create this massive multi-year crackdown

payment processors are being used as a cudgel more than acting of their own accord, i think. the rumors i've heard is that they're afraid of getting slapped down by some federal regulator who decides to look just a little closer at how "risky" the transactions they're processing are. since "porn" is classified as "high risk," financial institutions that deal with it are required to do more extensive.... finance stuff i guess to derisk it. most don't want to bother, so they don't deal with anything that smells like it could get them slapped with a fine.

i believe the keyword is "operation choke point" if you want to take psychological damage. there are people working on it but it's damn hard vs conservative oil barons/tech airheads.

it's worth noting here that there are a number of payment processors that will process adult content

but they're more expensive than the big payment processors. this is for a variety of reasons, at least some of which are actually good reasons that make sense. for example, nsfw content tends to see high rates of chargebacks and fraud, which is inconvenient and expensive for payment processors to deal with

a big general platform that serves mostly SFW material is going to be using one of the big, cheap, mainstream payment processors. if that payment processor complains about content, what is that big general platform going to do? dump their payment processor for one that charges 2-3 times as much for every transaction, including the SFW stuff that makes up most of their sales? unlikely.

so NSFW creators get pushed off of general platforms and onto separate, dedicated platforms that have much smaller customer bases and pass those higher costs onto creators

in reply to @distressedegg's post:

even if i gotta make shit for "free" and accept "equivalent donations" i will never stop making smut. the amount of fucking joy and affirmation that it brings the people and communities i care about is too incredible to ever give up.