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Re:The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry... by lotsofpulp on Sunday April 17, 2022 @12:34PM (#31062061)
No need to remove chargebacks. But there does need to be an electronic analogue to paying with cash, a utility provided by the federal government. Supposedly it is being worked on and called "FedNow".

https://frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/

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Re:The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry... by anamax on Sunday April 17, 2022 @01:34PM (#31062571)
What are the odds that FedNow will service the adult industry?
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Re:The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry... by Nasrudith on Sunday April 17, 2022 @05:40PM (#31064741)
Pretty good given the first ammendment and lack of other rationale such as scarcity of airwaved. A pretext to deny would be difficult for domestic companies.
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Re:The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry... by anamax on Sunday April 17, 2022 @07:54PM (#31065723)
The feds have been pressuring financial services companies to "de-platform" legal businesses, including those in the adult industry, for years.

The govt's pretext has been "reputational risk." Isn't it nice of the feds to tell a bank that "someone" might not think well of them if they provide services to "those" people?

It is established law that a business that acts at govt behest is a state actor, so that "pressure" is enough to bring the 1st amendment in. That is, if there's a 1st amendment argument. However, said de-plaforming doesn't seem to succumbed to a 1st amendment challenge.

Maybe such a business would win with a first amendment argument on FedNow, but how many can survive until that decision comes down?

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Re:The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry... by lotsofpulp on Sunday April 17, 2022 @08:05PM (#31065799)
>The feds have been pressuring financial services companies to "de-platform" legal businesses, including those in the adult industry, for years.

Source? I have never heard of this.

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Re:The off-screen workers who keep the adult webcam industry... by anamax on Monday April 18, 2022 @03:10AM (#31068166)
https://www.freespeechcoalition.com/blog/blog/2018/09/07/ban...

and https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-252B-6265

see also

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3353847

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