Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of the web

Re:Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of th... by dec0dedab0de on Monday October 11, 2021 @03:24PM (#28831982)

As for sex work, in particular, this one is tricky. While I fully support body autonomy and in an ideal world, sex-for-money and the like should be legal, it's not that simple in reality. Why? Because the sex industry is deeply tied to human trafficking. I have no idea how to solve that problem.

You can't solve that problem, but I believe you could mitigate it by making prostitution legal. Funny thing is that prostitution is legal at the federal level, it's just that all the states except Nevada have laws against it. So it's kind of the opposite of cannabis, and if the credit card companies wanted to be consistent in following federal law they would allow it.

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Re:Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of th... by snotrockets on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:22PM (#28856316)

The Netherlands can serve as a counter-example to your wrongly held belief

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Re:Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of th... by alsetmusic on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:00PM (#28859000)

> The Netherlands can serve as a counter-example to your wrongly held belief

This is vague. What are you saying? Please cite sources for whatever position you’re presenting (I’m not trying to be argumentative; truly can’t tell).

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Re:Credit-card firms are becoming reluctant regulators of th... by snotrockets on Thursday October 14, 2021 @12:37PM (#28866550)

Parent has unbased beliefs, and I should do the work of doing the leg work for him?

For those that has yet to learn about the Googles, then they should know that sex work is legal in the Nethelands: https://www.government.nl/topics/prostitution, yet human trafficking for prostitution is still a very real problem there: https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2017/10/some-6000-people-a-yea...

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