Puritans
Businesses deciding what rights we have is the part of capitalism no one talks about. I’m so tired of unelected people making rules for my life.
Fuck them all why can a company decide what is “right” If Kickstarter doesn’t want NFSW content then fine that is their choice it is their platform. But why should a payment processor be able to tell you what you can and can’t have.
True. We’ve been there for ages with the advertisement ecosystem we live in ofc
And they still wont introduce crypto payments
Crypto is only better because of the hosters.
Watch the Video Line go up by Folding ideas. Crypto is just as much controlled by the people having the means as the banks are
What people controlling means? These are decentralized automated systems.
The ones with the most servers can just fork the chain when something that they don’t like happens
Generally, zero trust means zero privacy: they can at any point just discriminate anyone
But now its everyone instead of those who have money, so yay I guess?
Not really, at best large opearators in BTC can censor transactions, ETH devs are working on encrypted mempool, so even that shouldn’t be possible there soon.
We desperately need sovereign digital currency like the digital euro project
Just curious if kickstarter is in the wrong here or not. Because when it was Valve, lots of folks were losing their minds blaming Valve for capitulating to Stripe and Visa/MC.
People really like to hate on Valve. Well, some people and lots of bots.
Valve didn’t capitulate tho.
The way you’d have heard them tell it, Valve folded like a cardboard box.
They did, they removed all content that Mastercard / Collective shout doesn’t like.
And what was this material, still seems to be hentai on the store. This is basic shit that can be disprove immediately.
Dumbasses, should have told stripe to pound sand like Master card and visa. This platform is going to die in this econ if they pull that.
Mastercard and visa are likely who made stripe do this
We’re due for a second sexual revolution.
I read Kickstarter and thought Patreon. That would be a huge blow to nsfw content. This is still upsetting.
I understand why people would think that this could be due to influence from the morality police type groups, but there’s also a pretty boring explanation. Kickstarter is seeing an increase in NSFW content and Stripe has never allowed that.
So, knowing how risky it is to try to go on social media and examine a situation with nuance… It’s pretty well understood in the industry that fraud rates are much higher for NSFW-related content
This is why your favorite porn website doesn’t charge your card directly and uses a third-party processor who charge them an increased fee (insurance) to eat the charge backs and fraud claims rather than having Visa or Mastercard block them.
Stripe doesn’t do adult-industry payments. Here’s the oldest page I could find in the Wayback machine, from 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120511082217/https://stripe.com/terms
- Prohibited Businesses
[…](38) sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services, […]
Kickstarter uses Stripe and so is bound by their terms. The terms are not new, they are at least 14 years old.
The thing that is new is Kickstarter is increasingly being used for NSFW content which violates the contract of the payment processor that they use.
