Potential Rule 8 Question: Regarding the Recent Anti-NSFW Content Bans...

[xihute]

I don't think this helps people outside of the USA.
Porn needs to move too crypto as should more people IMHO.

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The solution is to force Visa/MasterCard to abide by the law: if porn/anything else is legal they have no right to refuse payments.

If the law allows them this: the law has to change.

As is now, a small group of people, above any national law, without any legitimacy, established their own shadowy de-facto laws.

 

[NumberSix]

The solution is to force Visa/MasterCard to abide by the law: if porn/anything else is legal they have no right to refuse payments.

If the law allows them this: the law has to change.

As is now, a small group of people, above any national law, without any legitimacy, established their own shadowy de-facto laws.

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Even more reason to bypass them via crypto or alternate payment processors and infrastructure.

It is not the 1980s anymore, tech has advanced a lot.

 

[Minimorrigu]

alternate payment processors and infrastructure.

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This i agree with.

crypto

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This is nonsense.

Crypto is the worst of the options that would work. It opens up a whole system of easy abuse. As you put it:

It is not the 1980s anymore, tech has advanced a lot.

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This is also true of bad actors looking to empty your wallet which, due to lack of regulation, you have no recourse for. And this is one of dozens immense drawbacks to crypto.

What we need is alternate payment systems and infrastucture. Hell, id take couriered cash over crypto any day.

 

[CriticalFailure]

"Begone, crypto shill."

Is my response whenever I hear someone suggest cryptocurrency.

 

[magic9mushroom]

I don't think this helps people outside of the USA.

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No, if it accepted worldwide customers it'd be a lot more than that. Visa/MasterCard debanked anything that touches the Australian prostitution industry, for instance, causing major headaches.

(Prostitution is legal in Australia.)

 

[NumberSix]

This i agree with.


This is nonsense.

Crypto is the worst of the options that would work. It opens up a whole system of easy abuse. As you put it:


This is also true of bad actors looking to empty your wallet which, due to lack of regulation, you have no recourse for. And this is one of dozens immense drawbacks to crypto.

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Bad actors can steal your money either way.

Especially with the digital ID push we have now.

Voices can be mimicked, phones with e-tokens can be taken over, and so forth.

Hell, id take couriered cash over crypto any day.

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I agree completely about the cash.

Too bad there is an active war on cash going on now.

And also the majority of lewd stuff does not have a cash option since you'd have to order it for physical delivery from another country or it is a purely digital good or service.
I mean, around here the courier agencies have this thing called "forced payment on delivery" but I doubt that will work with packages form japan, even worse they have to pass customs and you are forced to give the shipper temporary power of attorney and provide them with an invoice for the goods in some cases to get the stuff released.

Don't get me started on the loops I had to go through to get my first kindle...
I don't wanna think how getting a lewd Daki cover would have gone with that version of the system.


Oh, there are already alternatives, like direct bank transfer, but banks can be idiots and get shamed or legally pressured, too.

And alternative payment processors would still be vulnerable to trash idiot groups of slacktivists and government idiocy.

Transferring cash to crypto stable coins and paying for lewd stuff is the closest to paying with cash.

 

[Minimorrigu]

Bad actors can steal your money either way.

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Yes and no. They can take the money, sure, but if someone empties your bank account, at least in my country, banks are obligated to fix the mistake they made by letting someone access your account (Edit: additionally, trying to empty an account in the first place raises all sorts of red flags with a bank that usually cause them to delay any transfers until they can confirm its you). With crypto, the best you'll get is a polite go fuck yourself. So this response is reductive and inaccurate by way of ignoring context. But we're getting off topic.

 

[NumberSix]

Yes and no. They can take the money, sure, but if someone empties your bank account, at least in my country, banks are obligated to fix the mistake they made by letting someone access your account (Edit: additionally, trying to empty an account in the first place raises all sorts of red flags with a bank that usually cause them to delay any transfers until they can confirm its you). With crypto, the best you'll get is a polite go fuck yourself. So this response is reductive and inaccurate by way of ignoring context. But we're getting off topic.

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We have a saying around here.

A bank will shit blood before it returns money.

That and the transfers will likely happen through various mules and go to a different country, it is very hard to deal with such problems.

Worse yet there were situations where people's taken over phones were even used to take out so called fast loans.

But yeah, let us get back on topic.

 

[searcher8]

I don't think this helps people outside of the USA.
Porn needs to move too crypto as should more people IMHO.

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If cryptocurrencies actually worked as they were advertised, and weren't in fact little more than a total scam designed to let whoever runs the coin to pull the rug out of everyone at a moment's notice, this suggestion would have merit. Unfortunately as has been shown time and time again, that's all that cryptocurrencies are, so this is a terrible idea.