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Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ... by Barrin92 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:51PM (#25379219)
They should (as far as they can), and Mastercard should take responsibility as far as they can. Both should take appropriate levels of responsibility given the capacity and scope that they have. I assume Pornhub already does try to directly address child abuse that is obvious from the content, I assume Mastercard can go further and identify child abuse based on known entities in their payment system, and so on. And if both fail, they should delegate information upwards, but only then.
Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ... by Spooky23 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @07:12PM (#25380628)
Porn isn’t business any processor wants to be publicly associated with.

If there’s evidence that the site isn’t policing itself, they are gone.

Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ... by ogre_codes on Friday December 11, 2020 @12:46AM (#25382731)
MC & Visa do business with thousands (millions?) of adult shops in the US. They have no moral compass or concerns about being involved in financial transactions with porn purveyors.

They do have a tremendous aversion to people involved in criminal activity or at high risk of doing so. Once PH started publicly flirting with that threshold they got dumped.

Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ... by Spooky23 on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:41AM (#25387657)
The morality police are the police.

It's a different scope. Porn shops sell product in one place and local authorities deal with that. A bigger entity with interstate impact is a federal matter and penalties are much more severe.