Fetlife & Porn Censorship

[CapturedDoll]

"Mass FetLife censorship via financial discrimination, Kink moves to Vegas, Facebook censorship in crosshairs."

https://www.tinynibbles.com/blogarc...ves-vegas-facebook-censorship-crosshairs.html

"Dear Fetlife & other Kinky People: You don't have the luxury of being Apolitical anymore."

http://www.theferrett.com/ferrettwo...-have-the-luxury-of-being-apolitical-anymore/

 

[sonnymadler]

I got this from the second link above. The sheer hypocrisy is utterly ridiculous and depressing. https://www.engadget.com/2015/12/02/paypal-square-and-big-bankings-war-on-the-sex-industry/

Anything sex related, even the production of condoms, is suddenly bad, illegal, immoral and a myriad of other things, and banks and credit card companies roll over. Yet they themselves probably indulge in the very same kinky stuff, but would of course never admit it. What next?...

 

[rdhd]

Black market?.......

 

[CapturedDoll]

I got this from the second link above. The sheer hypocrisy is utterly ridiculous and depressing. https://www.engadget.com/2015/12/02/paypal-square-and-big-bankings-war-on-the-sex-industry/

Anything sex related, even the production of condoms, is suddenly bad, illegal, immoral and a myriad of other things, and banks and credit card companies roll over. Yet they themselves probably indulge in the very same kinky stuff, but would of course never admit it. What next?...

I honestly don't know. Maybe offshore bank accounts?

 

[Mrcool]

This is ridiculous

 

[FeatherEndeavor]

Does anyone know if they're gonna eventually go after companies that sell fetish material? Clips4Sale, IWantClips, FM Concepts, etc. If they find excuses to block credit card access to those companies as well they could also be in trouble.

 

[jediofthefeet]

@FeatherEndeavor

FetLife's architect and founder laid it out in great detail how two of his merchant processors consecutively closed his accounts after their banks
came down on them. The processors were vague about the details. So the founder and his team had to act quickly to save the site. He said about
1/3 of the site's revenue came from subscriptions. The other 2/3 came from sponsored advertising. He considered Bitcoin, but that wasn't viable.

Regarding Clips4Sale, this recent message made me bring here to everyone's attention.
Neil and his team are probably doing to juggling of their own perhaps. Banks are controlled by the federal government and hold the cards and the money.
So whatever they say goes. Full stop. Period. End of Line.

UNITED STATES ACH PAYOUT DELAY - CHECKS BEING SENT
Due to a technical issue with the company that processes our US ACH payouts, there will be an unexpected delay for the month of February.

However, in order to make sure everyone receives their payout without any delay we are going to send a paper check instead to make sure you get paid.

IF YOU RECEIVE AN ACH - PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU
NEED TO UPDATE YOUR MAILING ADDRESS IMMEDIATELY:
http://support.clips4sale.com
We will send the checks out on the 1st or 2nd of the month of February to make sure it gets to you as quickly as possible.

The ACH for the following payout on March 7th should have no issues.

We are very sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. We would rather preempt the impending delay by making sure you are paid out quickly instead of waiting for the ACH company to figure out their issues.

Clips4Sale Management
Clips4Sale.com