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. @luxalptraum.com and @erikamoen.bsky.social made a comic for The Nib explaining the underlying barrier to NSFW content being hosted on major platforms: The Credit Card Companies. Read the much longer comic at thenib.com/payment-proc...
Text: At the core of the porn business is one very unsexy factor: if you want to make money selling naked photos, you need a way to get money from your customer's bank accounts to yours. Image: Two simple icons of banks, one labeled BUYER and the other SELLER, with an arrow going from BUYER to SELLER IMAGE: Drawing of a Visa credit card resting on top of a marionette control stick-thing with strings that connect to icons of Apple, PayPal, and Google. Text: Even services like PayPal or Apple Pay or Google Pay are really just a fancy way of using a credit card. And that gives credit card companies a tremendous amount of power. Image: An angry credit card stands on top of a blindfolded dollar bill. A human hand is recoiling from the credit card, which holds up a STOP hand (blocking the hand's attempted purchase), while the blindfolded dollar bill shrugs because it has no idea what it may have been used to buy. Text: Cash can't tell you what you can and can't use it for. But credit cards can. Lux Alptraum peeks behind a curtain that is labeled with icons for NO BLOOD, NO ALCOHOL, NO FISTING. On the other side is an angry credit card person with their arms crossed. Lux: Even payment processors that do work with porn- like CCBill and Epoch, for instance - have strict rules about what you can and can't sell. Ever wonder why there's not much period porn out there? Payment processors will drop you as a client if they learn that you're selling it. People don't usually talk openly about it, but if you scratch the surface it's pretty clear that at the root of all of this is Visa, Mastercard, and their distaste for adult content. Lux balances a personified credit card in one hand against a personified 18+ symbol that is posing for a sexy selfie as she says, "Read the rest of The Payment Processors vs. Porn by Lux Alptraum and Erika Moen https://thenib.com/payment-processors-vs-porn/
March 15, 2024 at 9:05 PM