Visa and Mastercard have surged over the past two decades, reaching a combined $1 trillion market cap. That has attracted unwanted attention from regulators.
Not exactly puritan to expect that if you’re serving porn you’ve done at least the base line vetting to make sure it’s not child porn or non-consensual.
Not exactly puritan to expect that if you’re serving porn you’ve done at least the base line vetting to make sure it’s not child porn or non-consensual.
No, puritan ass values like not being a porn site. It is the government’s job to regulate illegal content, not payment processors.
Then what about the fact they also ban payments for legalized weed? Nothing CP or non-consensual there.
Weed is not legal, unfortunately, so that one actually makes sense.
Because weed is still federally illegal. So regardless of what each individual state says, Visa is beholden to federal law, just like banks.