> If they explain this with risk, then there should be some special state run bank...

Reasonable...but could you describe the elected politicians who will vote to establish that special state-run bank, and keep it going?

The risk here is that someone against porn etc will 9and have) sued them for helping bad activities. TYhe cost is too high for the credit card companies.

In this case the pressure on a government payment system would be even higher as no politician could afford to support something helping porn.

> banks and payment processors

OTOH, I doubt the banks themselves are doing it for personal moral reasons, rather because of outside pressure. They're doing it out of fear of the power that picketers have over their actual livelihood.

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