• HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours ago

    Its such a good thing to see a pretty normal part of the human experience get ripped out of every place humans gather because it makes the money holders uncomfortable.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      Probably a bit of both. Usually it’s the payment processors being lobbied by vocal “Christian” groups.

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      2 hours ago

      If you never know the motivation for something a company does, just know that the answer is always money.

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      It sounds like it’s just insertable toys, so it might be a liability thing if they’re afraid people are selling unsafe toys? Who knows. That’s a really weird distinction and definitely one that payment processors don’t make.

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        3 hours ago

        Does Kickstarter have liability in general for Kickstarted projects? I’d kind of assume that that’s on the specific project. I can’t imagine that Kickstarter is in any kind of position to really do a domain-specific evaluation of whether a given project is in line with local regulations.

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          3 hours ago

          I really have no idea, and this would probably be jurisdiction dependent anyway.

          They do allow things like food, which it seems would come with more liability anyway, if they can be held liable for kickstarted things.

      • zewm@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        Why would Kickstarter be liable for someone else project.

        That’s like trying to sue UberEats for delivering food that gave you food poisoning.

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          You can’t really legalese yourself out of being liable if it can be shown you knew of an issue and did nothing to prevent it.

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    2 hours ago

    They probably think the US prohibition didn’t work because they just didn’t try hard enough

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      Prohibition worked. It had the annoying unintended consequence is some people ignored it and became criminals, but alcohol consumption clearly dropped when it was in effect.

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        2 hours ago

        And yet the illegal alcohol market boomed and it gave massive rise to organized crime and government corruption to allow it. It doesn’t “work” in any practical sense, it just concentrates the problem and makes it even harder to control.

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          It only didn’t work if you demand absolute perfection, which is unreasonable. I’m going to stand by it worked.

          I already addressed the unintended consequences.

  • Swuden@lemmy.world
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    11 minutes ago

    I was thinking about this the other day. Are the powers that be worried about innovation in adult content getting so good that people will stop seeking out real companionship? In their minds it could lead to a drop in births, leading to a drop in consumers and producers.

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
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      20 minutes ago

      Yeah but how tf do you buy things with monero? 😭

      I spent an afternoon trying to work it out once, and it’s not exactly intuitive, and it seems like the people who convert from normal money into crypto still hold all the strings :/