Well at this point you're either trolling or have a very romanticized vision of pedophilia. Children don't really understand what's going on, it's not a relationship - it's grooming. And let's not forget that there's often violence too whether it be blackmail, physical abuse or anal sex.
That would not be possible, well, at least not be viable. Since they would mostly be transferring money from A (patron) to B (artist), they would in essence act as a banking service themselves - and becoming a bank is different from most other enterprises in terms of regulation, you cannot just "open" one, you would have all kinds of red tape to cut through, undergo regular scrutiny and so forth. And since they're an internationally active one, it would only get worse because they would need tons of licensing from anywhere around the planet. Unless they grow as huge as ebay was when starting PayPal, I doubt that's anything that realistically could happen.
It's not too hard, unless they decide to also branch into things like loans and financial investment, plenty of companies take ACH payments and also pay out via ACH (besides just wages to their own employees). Really the main issue is ACH is limited to the United States and territories' banks last I checked, that's the only advantage credit cards have, since they are mostly international. So hypotheticaly under that scenario international users wanting to use Patreon would be shit of luck since there is no unified global regulation body for banks (yet) as NACHA has no jurisdiction in other countries (yet). Not really that big a deal, most of Patreon's 8% cut from everyone is mostly from Americans anyway. There's also other irrelevant-to-most limitations like transactions limited to $1M per day and similar. Though I suppose for the rest of the world they could simply use old school wire transfer, though that would only make sense for those that pay annually or something instead of monthly since fees for those are ~100x what ACH costs. Of course that's where crypto pegged to the US $ shines. Coinbase fees are usually like 2-4% last I used them, comparable to credit card transaction fees, with Backed.by taking an additional 1% cut (assuming Patreon didn't also switch to crypto).
AML is a significant cost and regulatory oversight that likely would hit their bottom line significantly.
Well, that ain't gonna happen anytime soon, that an American institution gets jurisdiction over international partners just like that.
There's no Emma in MC is there? Oh wait, you didn't say Emma did you.....never mind!This thread desperately needs an Enema.
not "just like that", no, it's usually through political pressure in one form or another (things like copyright law is mostly an American invention that not too far back didn't exist outside the US and in a similar form in the UK) or when that fails, being American as hot dogs and apple pie, simply going to war, blowing them up, and rebuilding them in the US gov't's image under the "spreading democracy" or "UN peacekeeper" flag. Of course we only tend to do that when they are not able to put up much of a fight and tend to mostly leave the bigger countries that can like China and Russia alone other than indirect methods like trade tariffs, economic sanctions, and indirect military aid to their enemies (Taiwan in the case of China, Ukraine in Russia's case, etc).
Why? It's dead AVN anyway, easy enough to simply ignore the last 20-30 or so pages since there will be no new update to talk about. It'd be like making a conversing crowd of people that's loitering on the radioactive ashes of a former city leave so they can bring out the street sweepers = not much point. Prob be easier to simply close the thread and lockout any new comments.This thread desperately needs an Enema.
The ignore button for people helps a bit with that.This thread desperately needs an Enema.
