PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub

Post by ClumsyPilot » Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 12:31 AM UTC

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This is the rationalisation of a legal kludge that is only necessary to assuage consciences that the state has not become "immoral". The facts on the ground are that, dissuasion or not, these economies will never go away ("oldest profession", after all). Full legalisation would allow for complete oversight of such murky sectors, which would ensure everyone's safety better than the current arrangements, at all levels.…

I agree that prostitution should be legalised and regulated to make it safer for everybody involved (because I too don't think it'll ever go away). Cannabis? Probably — I don't know that it's that much worse than tobacco. Full-on legalisation is not universally desirable, though — there's always heroine, cocaine, crack, meth... — and the asymmetric legality thing is still a very useful tool in those circumstances.

Post by r3drock » Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 2:11 AM UTC

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Don’t know if it’s only in Germany but banks here don’t need to give you any reason to close your account. There are some stories of how every time they tweak N26 Risk ML there’s a wave of termination letters to customers that didn’t do anything wrong. A bunch of friends got affected by this a while a go, they didn’t do anything wrong and the bank refused to give any reason at all for the termination.

Does closing your account also mean you lose your money or they give it to you somehow?

Post by wyclif » Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 5:57 AM UTC

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I've been with my bank for 15+ years. One time I sent a payment of several hundred £s to a friend who's paid my share of a holiday when booking. In the description I put "fun times". I had a call from my bank asking me to explain the payment the next day. I've never been called before nor since that. It certainly feels like they're a bit touchy about certain references.

> In the description I put "fun times". I recently started using Venmo to pay a few people and the things I have wrote are awful. Recent examples include: "Human organ trafficking" "Lunch and murder for hire", "sack of shrunken heads" and so on. Let them call me.

Post by takeda » Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 6:19 AM UTC

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Generally the advice in Germany is not to use "funny" descriptions, but not because the bank might have no sense of humor but because the tax agency might take it literally. If your friend sends you money "for sexual favors", that might be considered taxable income and you'll find yourself having some explaining to do.

Not just tax authorities, but (more importantly) police ones. The laws around things like sex work or drug consumptions, in most countries, are full of grey areas and willfully-contradictory positions (e.g. one can buy but the other can't sell, etc). So as soon as a transaction is categorised as part of a "problematic" economy, then police can get involved. If your bank lets through "hooker money" unchallenged, the p…

Post by takeda » Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 6:51 AM UTC

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Obama was the direct opposite of fantastically anti government and this deplatforming peaked under him. This isn’t about anti government sentiment, it’s about pro abuse of government sentiment to use the force of law to push your morality on others. At least unless you weirdly classify Obama as anti government. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

Read up on corporatism. It describes the overlap of moderate Democratic and moderate Republican ideology pretty well. It is a shortening of “corporate fascism”, and is the idea that the government exists to protect the economy, which is best done by strengthening existing power structures that power the current economic system. Therefore the government should defer to corporations whenever possible.