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Re:OnlyFans drops planned porn ban by fossuser on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:54PM (#28303914)
I thought the main cause of this was a recent law change regarding liability around sex trafficking: https://www.wired.com/story/how-a-controversial-new-sex-traf...

Rather than risk this liability it's easier for payment processors to just not work with high risk sites.

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Re:OnlyFans drops planned porn ban by toofy on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:16PM (#28304164)
NCOSE pressure campaign was heavily directed against payment companies. They're quite open about it. [0]

The first link is directly to NCOSE (Morality in Media) but heres a few other articles with quite a bit more information. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

[0] https://ncose.salsalabs.org/thankyou_mastercard_visa/index.h...

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/why-visa-mastercard-being-blamed-on...

[2] https://knock-la.com/onlyfans-bans-sex-work/

[3] https://reason.com/2021/08/20/why-onlyfans-is-double-crossin...

[4] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-52543508

[5] https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-real-reasons-why-onlyfans-...

[6] https://avn.com/business/articles/legal/mastercard-visa-ban-...

[7] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pornhub-policy/pornhub-pu...

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