It’s kinda scary how finance and payment processing companies can just destroy a company and a whole bunch of people’s livelihoods by themselves just because they decide they don’t like what they sell, and have no oversight whatsoever preventing them from doing this.
I feel like they’re welcome among the MLs here on hexbear. but I am trying to be less “online” and maybe that’s the key descriptor
? I’ve never seen or met an ML that didn’t acknowledge that sex work is labor and should be organized accordingly
I’ve gotten into arguments with dudes at genzodong and moretankiechapo back in the day. I assume their young but some internet mls def have trouble separating the industry from worker with respect to sex work.
FWIW, the gun nuts have also been dealing with similar issues and threats thereof. This issue may be new to many of us, but it is not new.
Same thing happened with weed shops in California after it became legal (and is still happening). You have to pay in cash. You can use cards but they charge you an ATM fee and give you change back from the nearest $5 interval.
All because finance institutions don’t want to touch those transactions.
Yeah, OP has a very good point, but a lot of private sector decisions like this are partly (and in some cases, mostly) driven by the risk of operating in legal grey areas. It’s the same process by which sanctions that technically allow food, medicine, etc. have the practical effect of choking those things off (banks don’t want to run the risk of financing something that falls outside what’s legal and getting assets frozen/seized).
Of course there’s plenty to be said about the massive influence private companies have in writing laws in the first place, what laws the government chooses to enforce, and what laws private companies choose to flout.
