Kickstarter has updated its content guidelines to prohibit several forms of NSFW content, and payment processor Stripe may be to blame
  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    18 hours ago

    Businesses deciding what rights we have is the part of capitalism no one talks about. I’m so tired of unelected people making rules for my life.

    • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      9 hours ago

      I’m so tired of unelected people making rules for my life.

      When people ask if I trust the government on any conversation that things like this come up I tell them my motto is “Don’t trust the government, unless it means trusting a corporation. Then DEFINITELY don’t trust the corporation.”

  • Smaile@lemmy.caEnglish
    91·
    20 hours ago

    Dumbasses, should have told stripe to pound sand like Master card and visa. This platform is going to die in this econ if they pull that.

  • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    22 hours ago

    Just curious if kickstarter is in the wrong here or not. Because when it was Valve, lots of folks were losing their minds blaming Valve for capitulating to Stripe and Visa/MC.

  • jaycifer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    20 hours ago

    I read Kickstarter and thought Patreon. That would be a huge blow to nsfw content. This is still upsetting.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
    43·
    18 hours ago

    I understand why people would think that this could be due to influence from the morality police type groups, but there’s also a pretty boring explanation. Kickstarter is seeing an increase in NSFW content and Stripe has never allowed that.

    So, knowing how risky it is to try to go on social media and examine a situation with nuance… It’s pretty well understood in the industry that fraud rates are much higher for NSFW-related content

    This is why your favorite porn website doesn’t charge your card directly and uses a third-party processor who charge them an increased fee (insurance) to eat the charge backs and fraud claims rather than having Visa or Mastercard block them.

    Stripe doesn’t do adult-industry payments. Here’s the oldest page I could find in the Wayback machine, from 2012: https://web.archive.org/web/20120511082217/https://stripe.com/terms

    1. Prohibited Businesses

    […](38) sexually-oriented or pornographic products or services, […]

    Kickstarter uses Stripe and so is bound by their terms. The terms are not new, they are at least 14 years old.

    The thing that is new is Kickstarter is increasingly being used for NSFW content which violates the contract of the payment processor that they use.