PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub

Post by StavrosK » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 12:14 AM UTC

stoptypingnow wrote: post #265

stale2002 wrote: post #227

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Ok, but the buyers and sellers of BTC are discriminating very little, against perfectly legal activities, in the way that PayPal is doing it a lot. If I buy or sell BTC from coinbase, for example, they aren't going to care if the money came from the porn industry or not. That's the difference. Apparently, for some reason, PayPal is shutting down people who are doing perfectly legal stuff, but coinbase isn't, to the s…

I'm in the US and bought perfectly legal supplements from a US company using BTC from my Coinbase wallet. I and several other customers of this US company had our accounts terminated by Coinbase. This US company we bought supplements from also accepted and still accepts major credit cards. Coinbase certainly cares.

Post by 9nGQluzmnq3M » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 12:15 AM UTC

briandear wrote: post #225

aazaa wrote: post #135

Financial deplatforming is a monster, long-term trend to watch over the next decades. Deplatforming happens with sex workers. It also happens in the US marijuana industry. It happens with perfectly legal political content. The number of ways in which someone, somewhere will be offended by products or services for sale is growing, driven by a rapidly improving worldwide communication network and delivery system, and b…

> It also happens in the US marijuana industry Most of the marijuana industry is illegal in the US. States making it legal doesn’t change the Controlled Substances Act. As banking is federally regulated, banks don’t have the freedom to knowingly allow illegal businesses. Porn however, is legal, and deplatforming a legal product/business is wrong in my opinion. To be clear, I am not suggesting marijuana should be ille…

Post by cortesoft » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 12:16 AM UTC

int_19h wrote: post #198

zamadatix wrote: post #131

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Water/power are utilities and are regulated differently than other industries. But your general question is an open debate. If you run a hosting company do you have to host things you disagree with? If you run a transaction company doy you have to exchange with parties you disagree with? What if a certain type of transaction is too high risk, do they have to do it anyways? Personally I'd like to see things lean more…

The answer to those questions depends on what your market dominance is. If you're one of many players in the market, and you're all actively competing against each other, then discriminate all you want - somebody else will cover that niche. But if you're the only option for many people, or there are so few options that the market is not really competitive, then yeah, I think it's perfectly legitimate to force compani…

Post by xtracto » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 12:18 AM UTC

linuxhansl wrote: post #123

Whatever you might think of the various professions... As long as it is legal, it seems the major payment service providers should not pass on their moral code onto everybody else. What's next? You get no water/power/whatever if you run a business that the service providers simply do not agree with?

Post by levismaina » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 12:22 AM UTC