countryside in MD |
Danny O’Brien and Rainey Reitman speak well when they
write on Electronic Frontier Foundation, “Visa and Mastercard are trying to
dictate what you can watch on Pornhub.” Nicholas Kristof had written an expose about Pornhub in Canada in the New York Times.
Right, credit card behemoths were not elected to be censors
of what Americans can watch. However,
the finance industry as a whole has to worry about “know your customer” rules
(and racketeering laws and the like, which have been mentioned as a possible
way around Section 230 in some criminal cases). But payment processors have
also come under social pressure especially from the progressive Left to deny
banking services to villains in the culture wars over hate speech, as if they
had a say on a customer’s “social credit” (like literally so in China). Paypal has been involved in this problem.
Pornhub has recently removed a lot of videos where it
is alleged underaged performers were used (which could invoke child pornography
prosecution risks even for consumers if you take seriously the idea of strict
liability, as used to be the case in some states like Arizona).
Pornhub may be offering “complete” endings for some tempting
videos on YouTube that set up edgy situations and then stop.