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Even then, it shouldn't be easy to cut them off. For many businesses, being unable to access electronic payment services effectively means being unable to operate. Any process that involves shutting down their ability to use the payment service should have to follow a very set process regardless of the business; for example filing a petition for liquidation if the business is not paying its bills. Otherwise you'll have situations where one business (e.g. online sex shop) gets blacklisted at the first instance of a chargeback, while a more "respectable" business such as Starbucks can be 6 months in arrears and they still get to operate.

For example, energy providers in Ireland are not permitted to cut off consumer supply for non-payment. Someone who is not paying their ESB bill and is unable to pay their ESB bill, cannot be cut off while they are living in property and at least attempting to make some form of payment. Because we recognise that electricity is essential, and a person having access to electricity is more important than a company getting their money.

Payment providers are approaching that level of essentiality and we need to implement similar protections for consumers and businesses in recognition of this.

I think your reading to much into this

Its a website where many young immature girls (18-early 20s) post ridiculously intimate pictures and videos that will be still around when they have long since died from old age. Its teaching young girls who should be working hard that they don't need to if they have boobs and a fanny

There is lots of issues about personal freedom that we should be more concerned about right now before OF being cancelled should even get a fleeting thought from anyone

Huge turn around, now they are not changing a thing, all content will be allow, so many middle school kids will be relieved

wtf

Money talks, nothing changes,

So they found a '' mystery'' bank who will deal wit them. It won't be a mystery for long.. then the bank will get it

Honestly I don't think you're reading into this enough. Personally, I'd never pay for something like OnlyFans, and I also understand the very very vast majority of people posting on there are not making much money at all, but I also am not under any delusion that sex workers do a lot more behind the scenes than people realise.

However, as someone who previously worked for a payment processor (Stripe in my case) I can in complete honesty say that many major banks simply do not want to touch this kind of content, because it is often viewed as immoral or 'dirty money'.

Despite anyone's opinion on OnlyFans or other adult industries, it's a terrible thing where banks are capable of determining someone's income.

When I worked with Stripe I'd often have to review adult accounts, which we'd inevitably have to close because our banking partners wanted nothing to do with them. In quite a lot of cases at the time it was very popular for girls to sell access to 'private' Snapchat accounts, for like $15-50 for a year or whatever it was. I distinctly remember seeing one particular account that was pulling in like $3,000 a month, and due to how she'd set up with Stripe she was paying her due taxes and reported it all come April. She broke no laws, did nothing illegal and neither did those who willingly paid for her content.

It blows my mind that we're totally okay with actors making millions each year from action films or genuine gore horror movies, but because some women are out there making money off the pathetic horniness of some men, we feel the need to try and stop them making money.

You're generalising. Lots of people pay for OF because they prefer the amateur side of things. Or one of the many other services the people on OF offer. Yeah, some may think that they might make a connection, but that's on them, not the performers. And I wouldn't call it dirty money either, there's more than just porn offering people what they think they need, but no one is forcing anyone to buy any of that. They offer a service which people are willing to pay for. It's the same as blaming McDonalds for obesity. One doesn't have to be lonely or desperate to pay for this content, they might just like it and live a perfectly normal life otherwise.

Nah, I think it's more a fact that they're getting pics and videos that other people won't get because they're not paying for them. Another elitist way of showing how much better they are than others, even if that show is only inside their head. I think you're reading too much into the types of people who pay for this. Yes, there are those crazy fringe elements, but I'd be of the opinion that most people who spend money on that are normal, everyday folks. And Arabian princes.

I don't agree. Yes, there are some out there like that, but I'd say far from a most. Why are people socially inept if they can't find a partner? Are you judging their ability by your own ability? Do you think that people who suffer from social anxiety are wrong, or that there's something wrong with them because they don't partake in what people consider normal socialising? And you said it yourself, it's a world where it's ever harder to form a real relationship, so those who were already struggling are now struggling more, and OF is an avenue of release but there's something wrong with them to be using it?

While we're generalising, everyone who drinks is a raging functional alcoholic. All weed smokers are stoner wasters. People who drink coffee have no self motivation. People who drink gin are manic depressives. People who wear labels believe themselves to be better than everyone else.

We'll agree to disagree. Or at least I will.

I support bodily autonomy and therefore defend the rights of consenting adults to engage in the adult entertainment industry.