"Last month, the millions-strong kink social network announced it was tightening community guidelines to ban depictions or discussion of edgier kinks, including blood, non-consent, alcohol, cutting, and the vaguely defined “obscenity.” At the same time, the network deleted thousands of photographs, groups and fetish categories without warning. The reason? Credit card companies."
"Since a functioning merchant account is the only way the site can accept membership payments from its users, Kopanas wrote, he had no choice but to submit."
If I were FetLife, I'd start a sister site for the "edgier" stuff that only took Bitcoin/Monero as payment.
http://www.dailyxtra.stfi.re/canada/news-and-ideas/opinion/just-happened-kink-social-network-fetlife-bad-sign-web-freedom-214928
"Since a functioning merchant account is the only way the site can accept membership payments from its users, Kopanas wrote, he had no choice but to submit."
If I were FetLife, I'd start a sister site for the "edgier" stuff that only took Bitcoin/Monero as payment.
http://www.dailyxtra.stfi.re/canada/news-and-ideas/opinion/just-happened-kink-social-network-fetlife-bad-sign-web-freedom-214928