No doubt the threat of a Stripe ban on Kickstarter is predicated on the expected ban on Stripe by MasterCard and or Visa.
In other words, online censorship is being controlled by two credit card companies.
We really need more payment processors, preferably not based in the USA.
Businesses deciding what rights we have is the part of capitalism no one talks about. I'm so tired of unelected people making rules for my life.
We desperately need sovereign digital currency like the digital euro project
We're due for a second sexual revolution.
Just curious if kickstarter is in the wrong here or not. Because when it was Valve, lots of folks were losing their minds blaming Valve for capitulating to Stripe and Visa/MC.
Puritans
Dumbasses, should have told stripe to pound sand like Master card and visa. This platform is going to die in this econ if they pull that.
And they still wont introduce crypto payments
I read Kickstarter and thought Patreon. That would be a huge blow to nsfw content. This is still upsetting.
I understand why people would think that this could be due to influence from the morality police type groups, but there's also a pretty boring explanation. Kickstarter is seeing an increase in NSFW content and Stripe has never allowed that.
So, knowing how risky it is to try to go on social media and examine a situation with nuance... It's pretty well understood in the industry that fraud rates are much higher for NSFW-related content
This is why your favorite porn website doesn't charge your card directly and uses a third-party processor who charge them an increased fee (insurance) to eat the charge backs and fraud claims rather than having Visa or Mastercard block them.
Stripe doesn't do adult-industry payments. Here's the oldest page I could find in the Wayback machine, from 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120511082217/https://stripe.com/terms
- Prohibited Businesses
[...](38) sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services, [...]
Kickstarter uses Stripe and so is bound by their terms. The terms are not new, they are at least 14 years old.
The thing that is new is Kickstarter is increasingly being used for NSFW content which violates the contract of the payment processor that they use.
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