Visa and Mastercard stop payments to parent company Pornhub – IT Pro – News

That really has nothing to do with it. If a customer violates your terms of use, then you as a company may decide to end the collaboration. And if there are indeed images of minors on Pornhub, then this will undoubtedly get a legal tail.

The problem is that in America it is still difficult to legally challenge when it comes to porn or other sexually explicit material. Then you get the problem that the judges will also make political decisions.

Another example is FetLife. Under pressure from the credit card companies, that site has increasingly imposed strict content rules on things that are not illegal at all, but according to the payment providers are seen as ‘perverse’ (FetLife is a BDSM-focused social network) and the providers could therefore threaten unilaterally with stopping payments. And it is difficult to challenge them judicially, because if FetLife goes to court they are immediately dismissed with “You have pictures on it of all kinds of filth, what do you think yourself?”

In the meantime, the content disappears so really problems arise, such as movies of rapes or children, or revenge pornography, simply behind closed doors and is exchanged through closed groups. Case in point, if the curtains are closed well enough, then the problem does not exist because we can no longer see it.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Stoney3K op 11 december 2020 10:21]

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