[vvarrior]

If I'm not mistaken all this started because of PornHub not checking on what content was being uploaded about 5 or so years ago

Way before that. Big banks have been cracking down on porn for quite some time. Google chase bank and Veronica Avluv. That was back in 2014 and they literally shut down the bank accounts of porn stars for basically making a living in the adult industry.

This is only the beginning, if Project 2025 goes through with their agenda I fear we'll be in deep shit when it comes to these type of things. Supposed to be land and of the free and yet adults can't buy porn legally because of the moral police trying to tell us what's good for us.

[angrmgmt]

Gumroad used Stripe, the same payment processor who abandoned Wishtender which was due to Mastercard and Visa pressure...

Marketplaces have the power to change processors. Ebay demonstrated this recently by dropping American Express due to their high fees.

Processors also face increased competition from competitors like Paypal and Bitcoin. Remarkably, Paypal manages to partner with - and compete against - Visa and MC.

VISA and MC may indeed be guilty of using their clout to force media marketplaces to filter their content.

But, as I've stated, if a marketplace allows a processor to filter their content, it is a business decision. They have the freedom to change processors.

[angrmgmt]

If I'm not mistaken all this started because of PornHub not checking on what content was being uploaded about 5 or so years ago

The issue with Pornhub was not that it was adult content, per se.

Rather, it was that some of that content was illegal. For example, some content was obtained through illicit means, without the consent of the participants.

This caused the content to be legally suspect, and this brought about several consequences, such as the abandonment of the payment processors and the site being blocked in various places.