No offense, but all of you screeching about censorship or puritans or whatever are being extremely silly and/or are really bad at parsing information. OnlyFans will never say it, but this has nothing to do with payment providers being against porn or whatever. It's because
OnlyFans sucks at moderating illegal shit and the BBC's had multiple stories about. Payment providers don't give a shit what you're paying for until it puts them at legal risk.
My issue there is that, shit like that propagates on Facebook at (I'll have to find the articles, perhaps it was in the comment discussion on the Ars articles about Pornhub where the ones citing that stuff on Pornhub also showed it happens on Facebook) higher levels yet no such ban on Facebook. Why is that?
And the crackdown that I mentioned that happened under Obama happened to a lot of people in the established porn industry, over stuff that was fully legal (although I do wonder how much might be sketchy because of payment - i.e. transfer from offshore bank account or something that is more difficult to track the money value of like stocks or jewelry, etc, and wasn't taxed properly; there's not much transparency from either side with regards to what was all happening) and had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with child porn.
You're delusional if you think its just about child porn, that's just the way they excuse it so that people like you will act like no big deal. Same reason that QAnon has been posting insane obviously (if you actually bother to vet them) bullshit statistics about human/sex trafficking. They know it works. Hell, look at Apple going to start scanning your photos for child porn. Its an easy way to start.
Which absolutely I guarantee that OnlyFans (and PornHub, and others) need to do a better job of dealing with abhorrent sexual conduct (underage, forced/coerced, exploited, etc) so my issue isn't even that really, its that other bigger players are also having that issue whilst nothing is actually being done about them. So why are only the sex sites being singled out? If they can show proof of behavior of them trying to cover it up then ok (but then I think that was true of Facebook as well, so again, why the difference?). That was what sunk backpage was that there was proof that they actively looked at and edited posts to hide that shit for the ones posting it. In which case, ok, then why the fuck are they not being charged with criminal behavior instead of just threatened with payment processor removal? If they want companies to take this shit seriously then they need to start holding them actually accountable. But they're not. That's why this rings incredibly hollow.
That statement is rather comical if you know anything about the industry in legalized states, and how the financial side is still heavily weighed upon by federal laws. If you think it matters what color skin you have, well...that's just silly.
Yeah, talk to black people that tried going legit. You're clueless dude. There's a shitload of racism in the legal cannabis industry. Well perhaps not in the industry but rather the powers that grant legal status and financial avenues for making it legit.
Sean Kemp had trouble getting his own marijuana store going in Seattle of all places, because he couldn't get financing so he had to join with a company run by a bunch of white guys.
Stuff like that is not uncommon. And it happens outside the cannabis industry as well, but my point being so much of what the person I responded to was saying is institutionalized racism and isn't because of the illicit nature of the industry.