I wonder what’s the force behind the “PayPal / Stripe won’t accept transactions on NSFW content” drive;
Somehow marketplace owners are not allowed to disclose who is threatening to pull the plug behind their negotiations.
It is not like they are threaten by a 3-letter national agency and secret court orders?
Or are these 4-6 letter corporations (PAYPAL, STRIPE, VISA etc.) so powerful they effectively have the same chokehold on everyone?
TechCrunch · Gumroad no longer allows most NSFW art, leaving its adult creators panicked | TechCrunchGumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updated its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing restrictions from payment processors like
@bitinn When I worked at Stripe, the two justifications I heard regularly (not sure how true they were), were:
- Card processors don't like handling this, and will kick us off if we started accepting them.
- Lots of risk associated as lots of chargeback from things like kids stealing their parents credits cards, and then the parents issuing a chargeback, lots of risk not only costs us more money but makes processors mad at us.