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Tumblr is reportedly on life support as its latest owner reassigns staff
(arstechnica.com)
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Why would banks care about porn? All they should care about is making money. They're literal banks afterall.
It's usually the credit cards. They don't want to be associated with the porn. Their brands show on the website.
Nobody knows what bank any company uses.
This makes sense
It seems that way to us on the face of it but the lines that've been trotted out are firstly the worry that money is coming from an illegal source whether underaged or trafficked and secondly that money laundering could be happening, OF would be/is an extremely easy way to clean dirty money.
They used to have to set up actual businesses that did actual work in case a genuine customer appeared, now they can buy feet pics and jars of farts or whatever.
Hmm I don't think that's it. They can still publish bullshit content and launder money that way. Also, jars of farts aren't porn and presumably still allowed
Tough to sell any old jar of farts without somebody wanting it for some reason (like having already seen pics of your butthole and becoming a perverted fan of everything your butthole ejects).
I agree. Supposedly it was about adult sites having higher rates of chargebacks, fraud, etc. But to me that sounds easily solvable with increased fees from the banks for that industry instead of trying to push morals.