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Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by Redhill on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:11AM (#36969327)
That is very outdated text, — 09/05/2023 00:16, we changed directions 2 months ago and we already had a notice about this from stripe and this is the main reason we decided to pivot directions... but yes we do not do NSFW, that was just an outdated text since that was 3 months ago, since I've been busy I did forget about that but I will change it, but that isn't the issue I'm having with stripe, the issue is them closing my account for "fraudulent charges".. but yeah I'll be changing that ASAP since you brought it to my attention

and also to further explain, we offer AI tools that can be used on a wide array of use cases- that being said do you outlaw knives because they can be used for murder when in face they can be used to cut vegatables? stripe should base their prohibited business list off the content sold and distributed mainly by the service, not what the consumers do with the service.. and like I said i've been allowed to operate on stripe and I am passed that as they have already allowed me to operate selling AI tools but an example from this is that amazon (that uses stripe or has used stripe) has tons of media attention of people doing fraud, will they shut down amazon because the consumers do fraud? no, so why should they play with peoples money like that?

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Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by figassis on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @07:58AM (#36969644)
The knives argument holds no water. I think Stripe would be in the right regarding NSFW content as it relates to their TOS (maybe at fault for using outdated info and not communicating with you so you didn’t have to find out this reason on HN).
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Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by Brian_K_White on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:11AM (#36971156)
And yet, nsfw content is not fraudulent charges.
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Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by Redhill on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @10:42AM (#36971596)
Knives argument was correct in the fact that stripe should decide to punish businesses for the production of user generated content that they cannot prevent. putting restrictions on it will not work, ask sam altman how restricting GPT4 is going, you cannot beat the people at censoring your technologies, so penalizing the business for something out of their control is stupid.. and as for the stripe being in the right, they have let popular NSFW content platform Onlyfans operate on their site before.. not sure if they do so now but they have allowed Onlyfans on stripe.. so ToS is out the window when the most popular NSFW selling content site is on stripe
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Re:Stripe is no longer a suitable payment processor by figassis on Thursday August 03, 2023 @11:54PM (#36995309)
Maybe they have, but Onlyfans would not be able to complain if Stripe decided to kick them out for that. It would be at their discretion. I think what you want is consistency, but companies, and even governments have shown us we cannot expect policies/laws to be applied the same for every one. A cop will stop only one of 3 speeding cars.
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