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I would not be surprised to see that this is more fallout from sesta/fosta, the exodus cry incident with pornhub, and payment processors just going along with the hysteria.

the anti-pornography crusaders have really escalated things over the past few years.

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Eh, most likely not. Having worked in the payment space, pornography has some of the highest rates of credit card fraud and charge backs. It's a nightmare for everyone involved.

While I don't want to defend the anti porn people, it is worth noting that pornography itself has escalated just as much if not more over the past few years. The availability and diversity of every type of porn content imaginable has never been greater and it's much much harder to avoid porn on the internet. Logically this would mean that those who are against porn would want to step up their game.

porn isnt the issue - its porn sites that are the problem. the features of those sites are, like facebook, designed to keep you engaged as long as possible, and are designed to keep a user going further and further down the rabbit hole of kinks and fetishes. this is a lot different from the magazine or vhs porn media in the 80s/90s, or the theaters in the 60's/70s, or even the pre-facebook internet up til 2011.

im not anti all porn and nudity - i am anti internet porn.

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