I suspect OnlyFans cobbled together a "honeypot" deal.
This would explain why Pornhub, etc. lost their payment processing but OnlyFans feels confident they won't.
This would explain why Pornhub, etc. lost their payment processing but OnlyFans feels confident they won't.
I don't think the cards companies particularly want regulators taking a much closer look at where they're making their money.
Is there any evidence that this played any significant part or is it just a conspiracy theory? The CEO said:
>“The change in policy, we had no choice — the short answer is banks,”
>Stokely claimed OnlyFans had been unfairly targeted by media reports into “incidents of illegal content” that failed to mention how porn-free social media platforms grapple with similar issues. “Banks read the same media as everyone else,” he said.
>Stokely said he would “absolutely” welcome porn back were the banking environment to change.
If you really don't want to read them, maybe read the short Wikipedia excerpt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry#Traffickinghub_camp...
Edit: Also even for PornHub, it is alleged that Nicholas Kristof's actions [1] had an important impact on the decisions surrounding PornHub, and Kristof is a self-described progressive who doesn't seem to act on religious grounds, so I don't really see sufficient evidence that religious groups play a significant role at all.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Kristof#Child_pornogr...
The NyTimes link below is opinion but it lays out facts and puts in the context of OF decision. It talks about the original nytimes PornHub op-ed by Kristof and his connections to anti-sex religious groups.
I think the rhetoric these groups use is very similar to the CP-as-an-excuse, but their goal ism't simply to remove illegal content (which everyone agrees is bad). It's to curb porn and sex work in general.
https://newrepublic.com/article/160488/nick-kristof-holy-war... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/24/opinion/onlyfans-porn-sex...