Not really a meme meme, but i felt like i had to :s
Undoing all the gains made during the sexual revolution. Conservatives taking us back to the puritanical dark ages.
It’s not even conservative any more. It’s regressive.
Always has been
These conservatives are old, so they are trying to “conserve” ideals that were out of touch in their own time
No. Conservatism has always only been about conserving aristocratic/oligarchic socio-economic power structures and establishing them where absent. Those are the only ideals they’ve ever had. All of the test was just a facade to pretend that their ideology has any place in a free, open, and equitable society.
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Bitcoin is really bad for using as currency, due to the fact that there is a permanent, public ledger of all transactions. Why would you want anyone you pay to be able to see and trace every transaction you’ve ever made? Pay rent in bitcoin, now your landlord can calculate your spending and who you do transactions with. And yes, there are services that aggregate and obfuscate transactions in order to make them less traceable, but now you’ve just reinvented the same centralized payment processor system that the whole thing is supposed to be replacing… so… what’s the point?
Cash is good for using as currency.
so… what’s the point?
The point isn’t anonymity, but independence and autonomy. It’s hard to shut down and hard to tax. The banks/governments can’t freeze your bitcoins, nor can they simply print more or regulate the value otherwise.
The banks/governments can’t freeze your bitcoins, nor can they simply print more or regulate the value otherwise.
You’re just listing reasons why bitcoin sucks lol. Oh no!!! Flight risk criminals and terrorists had their accounts frozen!!! Oh no, ReGuLaTiOn BaD!!! Grow up.
Finite currencies (like gold/silver/bitcoin) are deflationary currencies and are genuinely absolutely terrible for an economy. That’s why we don’t use gold anymore.
“Flight risk criminals and terrorists had their accounts frozen!!!”
Yes, those criminals, for example, LGBT people who conservatives believe are pornographic simply for existing. God forbid LGBT artists want to have a way of earning a living. Crypto is relied on by a lot of marginalized groups. It’s used by artists who make perfectly legal art, but whose content conservatives object to. Crypto is used by many queer content creators as they face being cut off from payment processing systems, as again, conservatives consider queer people pornographic simply for existing. Crypto is used by sex workers, often people with few other employment options. Oh, and crypto is used by trans people to get access to healthcare that is quickly being criminalized.
How insane do you have to be, in 2025 Trump’s America, to fall back on the idea that anything criminal is bad. Republicans are trying to criminalize the existence of entire swathes of the population. And those people face being cut off from the banking system entirely, if folks like you, who blindly consider legality=morality, have their way.
Ah yes, that’s why the Trump administration is one of the biggest proponents of crypto, right?? 🙄 did you even try?
How are those related? It is possible for some conservatives to want to purge LGBT voices from the internet at the same time other conservatives want to advance crypto. These are not mutually exclusive goals.
It does however look really bad that such a massive criminal organization (trump and co) are pushing for it so hard.
All of this before getting into just how insanely wasteful and terrible for the world that crypto is.
Sorry that it helps a few artists, but the cost for everyone else is significantly higher to embrace what crypto is.
It wasn’t my intention to come off as supporting it. I was simply giving the objective reasons for its creation. I see it as a tool that can be useful in some situations, but can be problematic in others.
Finite currencies (like gold/silver/bitcoin) are deflationary currencies and are genuinely absolutely terrible for an economy.
Myth. Deflation is just negative inflation, and that’s been fine.
It’s a fact.
Deflation is just negative inflation
Yep, that’s a major problem. The total pool of currency needs to be able to grow with the economy. Take a first year econ course before speaking
It’s a myth.
The total pool of currency needs to be able to grow with the economy.
Go on, back up that statement with references from your first year econ course notes.
Under your model, how was the economy able to grow before 1976?
Under your model, how was the economy able to grow before 1976?
Gold can be mined.
Just ban it worldwide and have the police arrest anyone running a node
oh wow, it’s that easy? we should do it with other things like piracy, human trafficking, tax evasion, insider trading, bribery, cyberattacks and environmental violations as well. oh wait, we did? it didn’t stop it? i’m shocked. /s
Tax evasion is legal several places.
So monero?
You can use a p2p service, like Lightning with onion routing.
Cash is good for using as currency.
But so insanely annoying to handle and carry with you.
You can make intermediate wallets to obfuscate transfers, like throwaways, so the wallet that pays your rent is different from the one ordering a dragon dildo and it’s hard to say if it’s the same person, but it’s a hassle and you’ll get extra transaction fees.
It’s trivial to trace the funding of these “throwaways” to link them together… unless this entire system is supposed to just rely on using a standard bank account to fund them, which… circling back to “so what’s the point?” you could pay from that account directly to get the same benefits. Using bitcoin is completely redundant in that scenario
Obfuscation is not security.
Amazing username
yeah, just grants you plausible deniability
That’s a bad argument. Visa, MasterCard, etc. know who you’re transacting with anyway. That is functionally equivalent to just paying from a Coinbase Bitcoin wallet. On the public ledger, it’ll only show a transaction from a Coinbase wallet. No one would know it’s you other than Coinbase and the porn provider
Woth crypto you could at least send it to your wallet, throw it through Tornado Cash, then put it in another wallet, making it extremely difficult to track
In general though, if the government wants to know who made a digital transaction, they’ll be able to find out. Doesn’t matter if you use a credit card or crypto
What makes Bitcoin bad as a currency is the slow, expensive transaction times
I’m cool with not trying the money that isn’t money but instead is an environmental disaster wrapped in explosive deflation.
Looks like Bitcoin does indeed suck, but Etherium and one called Avalanche(?) Are more environmentally friendly.
Oh cool. Minor environmental disasters wrapped in explosive deflation.
It takes one wind turbine to run all of Ethereum.
Deflation is not relevant for a transaction.
Deflation is not relevant for a transaction
What are you trying to say with this? Cause I’m stuck between the very literal and wildly confusing.
I will say, regardless of your further explanation, that deflation makes transactions less likely to happen, which is the whole point of a currency to begin with. Would you rather pay a debt to a friend off with dollars or a cryptocoin? Cause my money is that most people would say the dollars since the crypto could grow, whereas the dollar is always shrinking. A speculative asset is not something most people would give away like they would money.
If you are storing money in a certain currency then inflation is a problem.
If you owe money in a certain currency then deflation is a problem.
If you are quickly moving money from one currency to another then making an instant one off payment, the time span is too small for either inflation or deflation to have an impact.
The price of the service can be quoted as fixed in USD and adjusted in real time on the crypto side.
Cool. So why would I ever want that? Why would I willingly buy a crypto to pay for a transaction when doing so is always detrimental to me over the person who I am paying? I’ll spend more than the amount of debt I have (thanks to various fees) in order to give the person I’m buying from an asset that’s more likely to gain value than lose. Instead of a dollar, a thing made to do the actual job of a currency that everyone already has and accepts.
If this really does drive people to crypto then I hope it goes to monero or a fork of it. Try blocking or tracking transactions then.
I’ll pass on the tree burning coins
VISA and MasterCard get to build the digital dollar so they don’t care how any of it is manipulated so long as their position as middlemen is secure.
Probably simpler than all that, at least in the US. The Puritans get something like so passed. Fine. Now who in their right mind is going to stand up and say STOP. Imagine the political smear campaign. And it will all be “for the children”.
Let’s make a community run payment processor then. We’ll valiantly process porn payments.
Having worked in the payment industry, there is a lot of work to be done.
Even if you use the EMV standard, which almost all of the payment processor are based on, the challenge is to interface with the banks and making sure that every cards and terminals follow your standard.
And that’s if you can convince banks to even accept you payment standard in the first place.
I’ve been thinking this too. I’ll use it everywhere just because
Mastercard? No sorry, we only take WokeCoin 🤷♂️
MasterbationCard
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That spelling normally infuriates me, but in service of the pun, we’re going to have to allow it.
I am a world renowned bad speller, so I thank you for your patience with me.
So crypto?
:(
I wonder how long this will last. The NSFW industry is insanely huge. If the current payment processors cut it off, that leaves a giant gap in the market just waiting to get filled (😏).
If they hold firm on this, it might just be a rare opportunity for a new (and hopefully better) payment processor to enter the market.
Or maybe just wider crypto adoption, idk.
I have no idea why all of a sudden payment processors care bout anything but money. What happened ?
Collective Shout happened, an australian organisation decided to wage global war on anything NSFW in games (so far), their key talking points are allegedly being feminist and anti-exploitation of women.
i wonder if they asked the women they’re saying they’re protecting if they want that “protection”, or if they’re imagining that women just don’t make NSFW art
Why would they ask? They know what’s best for everyone. All people. All around the world.
/s
Their (collective shout) open letter to these companies has a headline like “you are profiting from exploitation” basically, but worse. I guess the card networks were thinking about their stock price or something when they made the decision.
Bad press?
Speed running the porn companies making their own payment processor
AFAIK there’s pay processing business that will do nsfw transactions but they ask for extra money.
I’d open a KinkPay account, when offered.
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So, this means that pretty much any paid adult content can’t accept visa, right? Or are they just stomping in the small creators for not being profitable enough?
Looking at you, OnlyFans…
For now, they are targeting more niche “taboo” kinks like incest and bdsm. But as we’ve seen time and time again with bigoted, puritanical christofascists, they will not stop there. Next, they come for the queer content. My guess is furry stuff is next under the bad faith argument of “bestiality”, then more standard queer content, including tame non-erotic content. Finally, all erotic content.
Remember, everything sexual is sinful and evil unless its a straight white cis Christian married couple having joyless missionary sex for the purposes of procreation only.
They’re already attacking furry content featuring “animal-esque genitalia”, as there were people who thought that was “zoophilic”. However, I still remember how much anime fans needed to fight, so that kemonomimi (catgirls, etc.) wouldn’t been labeled as “zoophilic”, which might be the source for the furry/anime divide in the west.
Valve has changed their content guidelines due to the requirements of the credit card processors. Itch.io, too. I wouldn’t call Valve niche.
OnlyFans felt the pressure not too long ago. It’s just when they announced they were banning porn, they realized they didn’t have anything else. So they reversed course and somehow can still take payments.
Wait what? OF banning porn? Is it 2021 again?
This isn’t new. It’s been happening for a while now.
Imagine how many more “Thomas Matthew Crooks” are gonna come out of their basements if you ban their porn. Conservatives secretly love their porn. Might wanna rethink the ban.
Or not, I don’t mind watching a IRL live movie about a rebellion instigated by…
checks notes
…banning porn 🤦♂️🤣
They supposedly love their children too.
My God… All the “pro life” movements make so much more sense now! They actually don’t care about the women, they only want the children around. And worse off the children, the better for them!
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So, why doesn’t some other payment processor step in to fill in the demand gap that the others are willfully abdicating?
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Yoid be starting in 1st position for all these transactions that just lost a market.
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have no idea why the chargebacks were such a massive deal to the processors.
They don’t have a lot of things to measure when attempting to address fraud, but that’s one of them.
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Crypto it is, then.
The most likely to succeed at the moment, IMHO, would be a standardization of the various local payment systems in Europe, and there is already some movement in that direction in a growing group of countries, but it probably needs a push from the EU itself, similarly to how GSM was pushed as a standard for mobile communications by European governments as a group and ended up dominating globally (which is also why, for a period and until smartphones became a thing, European mobile telephony companies were wildly successful).
I’m sorry for Americans who aren’t assholes (most here in Lemmy as far as I can tell) but the rest of the World does need to decouple from speed-running-to-Gilead America at all levels before it’s too late.
This comic goes from 2020 to 1984, was this comic originally about idiots that compared wearing a face mask to wearing a jew star?
Worse, it was when Twitter banned Trump. This is just like when the Savage John asked to be exiled from the World State but the Controller forces him to engage in society to torture him.
There was a reddit sub where they take in unfunny comics (usually sexist) and then edit them to be funny. That’s how this actually became a meme.
I think that was r/bonehurtingjuice
Nah, I’m pretty sure it was r/comedynecromancy. They took unfunny comics/memes and made them funny. They were an offshoot of r/comedycemetary, they just reposted unfunny comics/memes to poke fun at.
Could be a case of parallel evolution.
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Gnu Taler sounds like a good idea now
Wow, i didn’t know they had made that? Well, never heard about it, but that’s cool! I love everything made by/with the GNU Project :p
I don’t get it. Will they also ban sex shops, adult cinemas and every other offline adult entertainment thing that exist?
Now that weed is being widely accepted legally, porn is the new prohibition.
two steps forward ten steps back, eh?
Man. I remember being a kid and dreaming about a world where puritans got laughed out of existence. Then we had the “woke” era which shocked me sideways. I never dreamed that progressive thinking people would get hung up on regressive shit like policing language, it reminded me of being in church as a kid and hearing about those dreaded, awful, naughty words. But hey, at least their goals were well meaning and driven by empathy and concern for how other people have it in this world.
Who did they piss off though? The fucking puritans. The very people who policed language all of my childhood. It turns out that nothing ever meant anything to them, they just wanted to control people. “Don’t tell me I can’t call a little person a midget! Bad words is fuck and shit! Not me making fun of people!!!” One group said, “if it’s fun it’s bad.” The other group said, “if anyone is hurt by it, it’s bad.”
Now the puritans have gone full fascist because they felt like they were losing some culture war, so they want it all, and they scream loud enough to be heard.
It’s like this tug of war that is just going to end with regular people who don’t raise hell when they get upset being shoved into the dirt by a loud crybaby minority of people.
Before I had any grasp of history, I just assumed that people were always heading toward being more liberal in how they deal with the world.
Nope, this is what we do. We have cycles of enlightenment and cycles of assholes responding to said enlightenment. Somebody always has to be morally superior, fighting some ugly enemy. If we ran out of reasons to fight tomorrow, we’d just argue over some other dumb shit.
I’m drunk, so please don’t take me too seriously. I’ll probably wake up tomorrow and argue with myself about deleting this comment haha.
Whatever happens, I really hope we have freedom at the end of the day. I don’t care what it costs. Maybe we aren’t meant to have it. Maybe our nature is just too ugly.
Yeah, that’s literally what these people want.
Time for Europe to get its own payment processor and stop being dependent on companies from Gilead.
Gilead? The Pharma company??
Hoover? The vacuum guy?
It’s legal until someone challenges it in court and they say it isn’t. Sue.
Absolutely. I suspect the courts will find that if you are picky about what you allow, then you are responsible for it. It might force a push back to safe harbor type situations absolving them of caring about processing porn.
Capitalism is actually the fix for this one for once. Just be the only payment processor that lets you buy anything legal. Demand for your services guarantees your success and the others die out.
Let’s see if republicans still like capitalism now.
Capitalism isn’t the fix, banks are in cahoots with visa/mastercard and they will absolutely shut down any competition.
fuck it, crypto.
Who said anything about banks? Republicans are all in on crypto. let’s play this game.
Lol, that’s not a thing. The infrastructure required is too kuch, and most banks are conservative.
Money is now the enemy.
Ah, and here is where the commenter learns that “capitalist” competitors have legislated their opponents out of business, bought them out, or colluded with them.
Oh, and it’s not just payment processors.
It’s not “capitalist”, it’s capitalist. This is what capitalism does.
