MagicShoppe

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Visa is much more susceptible to bad press (e.g., "Visa defends the rights of cartoon incest smut producers in court!") than to a slight change in an oblique investment score.
I find it hard to believe people would stop using Visa because of smut press. There's no way that would hurt their bottom line. First, to quit using Visa, their "customers" would have to pay off their debts to Visa.
 

MurkyTurtle

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I find it hard to believe people would stop using Visa because of smut press. There's no way that would hurt their bottom line. First, to quit using Visa, their "customers" would have to pay off their debts to Visa.
I should have clarified, they're not worried about the bad press amongst the average plebians, they're worried about attracting the attention of the various Moral Majority groups full of pearl-clutching soccer moms and sexually-repressed Presbyterian ministers who've made banning pornography their latest crusade. They complain to the "family values" politicians, who in turn kick up all manner of hearings and committees and investigations that are annoying and expensive to deal with. If you're really unlucky you wake up to a big lawsuit from a red state looking for a nice settlement to pad their budget. To wit:
The evangelical groups in the US are loud and unrelenting ...
 

MagicShoppe

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The evangelical groups in the US are loud and unrelenting ...
And probably in the most debt to Visa. And therefore would be hard to boycott Visa meaningfully.

The money gained doing "porn" transactions compared to the money lost to any boycott would most likely improve their bottom line.
 
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