VISA and Mastercard have cut off all payments to PornHub after the discovery of child porn.
This has me concerned because it's a slippery slope. VISA blacklisted Gab over hate speech too. And where is the GOVERNMENT? 😴 😴 😴 You'd think child porn on a popular website would be a priority??
Nah instead we live in a world where billionaire corporations make the law by fighting each other with giant gundams. Whatever I guess. I'm glad PornHub is being held accountable, but payment companies should not get to dole out death sentences to whoever they want.
@alex Do you know what payment system bans no one? Bitcoin.
@valleyforge No shit, been spending the past 2 weeks integrating it. It comes with major trade-offs tho.
@valleyforge @uoya Yep. Centralization also has some advantages. You can dispute charges and have a chance of getting it back. With Bitcoin you can accidentally send funds to an invalid address and the money becomes lost in a void forever.
@alex @valleyforge @uoya What we’d need is just a crypto platform with protections for that sort of thing. Like an eBank I guess, which now that I think of it sounds similar to what #Apple has made
@realcaseyrollins @alex @uoya but that gives centralized power to an organization that can exert that power in the same way that visa and mastercard do
