• acab_means_cop_Dva [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      At the risk of hentai-free but adult art is art and it has long been infuriating that these monolithic payment processing services basically function as an arbitrary online Hays Code based on absolutely nothing but market fear that association will tarnish the reputation for the same entities that have been over and over revealed to launder money for the most malignant presences on the planet. Panama Papers, HSBC, etc.

      So many talented creators washed out banned and debanked so that the void can be filled with more Adin Ross’ getting middle schoolers hooked on gambling addiction and those payments get processed just fine.

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        market fear that association will tarnish the reputation

        I really doubt that’s anything more than a cover story, especially given that the processors are near monopolies.

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          Precarity is a profitable venture for these institutions. Impoverish the creators and pick and choose winners and losers. No one is coming to protect the expression and speech rights of adult media creators and no one in that space has real access to court protections.

          And slap on top of that a side-helping of AI sexploitation. So many firms have gotten RICH feeding uncompensated scraped data into the machine.