pornhub banned entire state of texas from accessing the site. Which further fueled my paranoia that banks have it out for entirety of porn.
Pornhub didn't ban the entire state of Texas. Texas (and several other US states) created
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that requires websites hosting adult content to verify the ages of people before they begin browsing the websites. The statute is clear on how websites must verify a person's age:
Section 129B.003 - Reasonable Age Verification Methods
(a) In this section, "digital identification" means information stored on a digital network that may be accessed by a commercial entity and that serves as proof of the identity of an individual.
(b) A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an Internet website or a third party that performs age verification under this chapter shall require an individual to:
(1) provide digital identification; or
(2) comply with a commercial age verification system that verifies age using:
(A) government-issued identification; or
(B) a commercially reasonable method that relies on public or private transactional data to verify the age of an individual.
Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 129B.003
The Texas law was upheld in the US Federal Appellate Courts after companies including Pornhub challenged the law in court.
So, instead of finding a way to have people share their official government ID with Pornhub for verification, Pornhub blocks any IP address originating from Texas in the attempt to keep the site within the legality of Texas statutes.
It is not the banks doing. It is not Pornhub's preference. It is the lawmakers of Texas (and some other states) who hold certain ideals on the conservative and authoritarian region of political spectrum that are doing it because of their personal idea of morality.
Any website that hosts "pornographic" content that does not follow Texas law in verifying the age of the people who attempt to access is breaking Texas law.
then YOU posted this crazy line
If you are looking for a platform to earn money on products with content that currently run afoul of financial institution requisites, you'll be looking for a long time.
Can you really blame me for starting to panic? Especially since i've been working on my thing for 6 months and suddenly learning selling it might be very troublesome.
Yes, I can blame you. I was
specific and deliberate in my word choice with "run afoul of financial institution requisites" and I included links for you to consider. You were
vague on what content you were going to have in your game. I could not speak about whether your content would run afoul. I could only comment on what is known. The people who have mostly been up in arms about this have been people who want content that is considered on the more extreme, and some illegal, side.
Anyway guess my main mistake was not looking up what the past drama was about.
On this, you are correct.