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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.

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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.

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