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We need more sex positivity in this world. While I agree that some of the contents of Fetlife was objectionable from a legal standpoint the owners did a good job at getting rid of those things.

I think the objection today has mostly to do with the fact that they want to tell us what we do in our bedrooms.

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> I think the objection today has mostly to do with the fact that they want to tell us what we do in our bedrooms.

Yeah we already see the first signs with Trump defunding abortion organizations. However I don't believe Trump to be behind this, much more Mike Pence.

And I'm really, really afraid that someone will either successfully impeach, maim or kill Trump - because then Mike Pence will succeed him, without anyone to check his powers, given that he'll have the entire extremist religious people in the GOP behind him.

I live in Indiana, and I've been living under a Pence government with a Republican supermajority for the last 4 years. It's better than Trump. Yeah, Pence picks ridiculous fights that cost the state a lot of money and he's a socially regressive person who wants to impose his views on everyone, but he's not an unhinged, unstable narcissist. He doesn't make all of his policy within minutes of it being shown on a cable newscast. I'll be able to sleep at night when Trump is replaced by Pence.

Trump isn't that unstable, I believe. He's just blindly following the call of profit (except the pussy-grabbing and sexual assault stuff). Most of the decisions of him and his team up to now can be classified as "will make Donald Trump or his team money in some weird way".

And I believe that this will land him in jail or impeachment more sooner than later.

Trump seems pretty unstable if you believe the leaks from the White House: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-tru...

Trump responds to stories from cable news by making policy on the fly. Trump called the director of the National Parks system to tell him to produce pictures that show more people at the inauguration. Trump sent Sean Spicer out in front of the press to lie about the size of his inauguration crowd. None of these make him money, and they show instability at a level that makes me uncomfortable in the White House.

This x1000. Policy-wise, I disagree with Pence on just about everything, but I would take him in a heartbeat over Trump. Pence actually has experience governing and seems to be capable of compromise and handling criticism (see: the Hamilton incident).

Trump on the other hand is a total wild card. He's just as likely to blow up and cause all kinds of unintended consequences as he is to actually accomplish the goals he claims to be aiming for.

I have more faith in the greed of bank CEO's than to believe this is anything other than risk avoidance.

It really isn't. Fraud risk is something that can be actuarially managed by setting appropriate fees and surcharges on at-risk sites. It would be a huge profit opportunity if they were allowed to take it.

This is part of a broad effort to moralize what we are allowed to buy and sell online.

I doubt the concern was fraud risk. Fetlife has been accepting cards for long enough that they should have data on the Fetlife fraud rate specifically, so wouldn't have any reason to blindly apply a sex=>fraud policy that they would if they Fetlife were applying for the first time.

It is probably a legal risk from laws that hold them liable for certain merchant behaviours.

This is the second place you've made this objection (fair enough!) but I'd rather not repeat my rebuttal, so here it is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13487052

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