* Mastercard and Visa cut off Pornhub, declining payments from customers who wanted to subscribe to its premium adult entertainment.
* The move came in response to a searing New York Times story that showed instances of children engaged in sex and women being assaulted in videos on the site.
* Pornhub changed its policies to clamp down on abuse, and today said it was accepting crypto only as its default payment.
Apparently, they've also "suspended" 2/3 of user-uploaded content as well[0].
As for being blocked by Visa/MC, I don't frequent PornHub, so I don't understand what folks would be paying for. Storage space? "Premium" content (if that, what is that?)?
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 18.0 ms ] thread* Mastercard and Visa cut off Pornhub, declining payments from customers who wanted to subscribe to its premium adult entertainment.
* The move came in response to a searing New York Times story that showed instances of children engaged in sex and women being assaulted in videos on the site.
* Pornhub changed its policies to clamp down on abuse, and today said it was accepting crypto only as its default payment.
As for being blocked by Visa/MC, I don't frequent PornHub, so I don't understand what folks would be paying for. Storage space? "Premium" content (if that, what is that?)?
[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/pornhub-purges-a...