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seriously, if you were Visa what would you do ?

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62372964

What a mess.

They started requiring age verification for the people in uploaded videos but maybe they should take it a step further and only accept content from approved accounts, like reputable studios that keep records.

One of the reasons why pornhub is popular is that it lets individual users create a professional looking channel for themselves and has subscriptions which it takes a cut of. The approved accounts thing already exists and pornhub has already purged old/unverified content in the name of safety once, in December 2020. It removed removed around 10 million videos. Visa and Mastercard already went through this process with pornhub and other mindgeek-owned websites. https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/14/22173858/pornhub-videos-...

Yeah, I remember reading about that. Maybe visa needs better assurances that they aren't going to get nailed again by being their payment processor.

They already are: Google for 2257 records keeping requirements.

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