Gumroad porn ban, payment providers, rant
a year ago
Okay, many already said this, but I want to chime in and share your anger!
Gumroad banning "sexually explicit" content is fucked up and once again it's, most likely, the fault of the big few payment providers.
These people are so ridiculous and disappointing.
I hate it and it really angers me how we're all so dependent on such powerful assholes who can so easily dictate their views.
We need our own payment provider "with blackjack and hookers"! 😡
Seriously, so many things can be self-hosted or have independent, decentralized open-source alternatives now.
We need that for money/payment.
Maybe we should in the end go for a less fucked-up cryptocurrency? But of course those also have problems and, for valid reasons, not the best reputation.
But it seems just having our own sales websites isn't enough if we still have to rely on the same three or so companies. 😡😮💨
(More reason not to abandon cash in general, but of course that won't help us with online transactions.)
Gumroad banning "sexually explicit" content is fucked up and once again it's, most likely, the fault of the big few payment providers.
These people are so ridiculous and disappointing.
I hate it and it really angers me how we're all so dependent on such powerful assholes who can so easily dictate their views.
We need our own payment provider "with blackjack and hookers"! 😡
Seriously, so many things can be self-hosted or have independent, decentralized open-source alternatives now.
We need that for money/payment.
Maybe we should in the end go for a less fucked-up cryptocurrency? But of course those also have problems and, for valid reasons, not the best reputation.
But it seems just having our own sales websites isn't enough if we still have to rely on the same three or so companies. 😡😮💨
(More reason not to abandon cash in general, but of course that won't help us with online transactions.)

Anhay
~chris388
yeah, goddamn fucking puritanical shitrain we are all on.


yep. i've had a look at so many different payment providers lately, pretty much all of them explicitly disallow payments for adult entertainment (which I guess also includes furry porn). it's devastating :/