Our first story is from August 1st.
A California judge is allowing a lawsuit against Visa to proceed, saying the company plausibly knew porn site operator MindGeek was monetizing sexual videos involving children. Judge Cormac Carney issued the ruling late last week in Serena Fleites v. MindGeek et al., rejecting Visa’s attempts to dismiss its portion of the suit. Carney says Visa plausibly “intended to help MindGeek monetize child porn” because it continued to offer payment processing services to the major tube site Pornhub despite knowing the site had failed to moderate videos of minors.
“Visa lent to MindGeek a much-needed tool — its payment network — with the alleged knowledge that there was a wealth of monetized child porn on MindGeek’s websites,” writes Carney. The ruling notes that after The New York Times published its story on Pornhub and Visa suspended its account, MindGeek removed 10 million videos to assuage its concerns — suggesting that Visa could have pressured the company to moderate its content more carefully. “Visa is not being asked to police ‘the billions of individual transactions it processes each year,’” the order states. “It is simply being asked to refrain from offering the tool with which a known alleged criminal entity performs its crimes.”
Well good thing that Visa isn’t a politically run corporation. It’d be a really bad look if they were allowing CSAM to be monetized while also –
Free speech software company Gab has announced that it has been blacklisted by Visa for “promoting hate speech.”
“Gab does no such thing,” its CEO Andrew Torba responded. “This is like saying Google ‘promotes hate speech’ because you can search racial slurs on their search engine and get results. Gab is a neutral technology platform. We follow the law, have an excellent relationship with law enforcement, and have a clear set of community guidelines that detail what is allowed on our website and what is not.”
Whoops! The above story is from the summer of 2020. Turns out Visa is quite active in removing people from their service when they promote legally protected speech that they personally don’t like. But they’ll drag their feet on refusing service to people profiting off of child sexual abuse material.
Now we fast forward to today.
Visa and Mastercard said they are suspending payment privileges of TrafficJunky, the advertising arm of online porn network operator MindGeek.
The announcements come a week after a judge denied Visa’s request to be removed from a case in which MindGeek is being sued for allegedly distributing child pornography — and which alleges that Visa knowingly facilitated MindGeek’s ability to monetize it.
Sell CSAM or die tryin’, that’s our motto here at Visa and Mastercard. Remember, these financiers deny their services to Gab purely for political reasons, and yet they’re willing to put up a strong legal defense of their right to monetize Child Sexual Abuse Material.
Visa CEO Alfred Kelly, in a blog post Thursday, said the payment processing giant “strongly disagree[s]” with the decision and that the company is “confident in our position.”
However, the court’s decision “also created new uncertainty about the role of TrafficJunky, MindGeek’s advertising arm,” he wrote. For that reason, Visa will suspend TrafficJunky’s Visa acceptance privileges “until further notice,” according to Kelly. The suspension means that Visa cards will not be able to be used to purchase advertising on any MindGeek-affiliated sites, including Pornhub.
It’s almost unbelievable. Only because of this ruling, which this gayface CEO Alfred is fighting, will Visa and Mastercard stop supporting CSAM. And yet they are active censors when it comes to speech that resonates with the peasantry. I know I said that before, but it bears repeating.
Don’t ever forget that this is what Koshervatives support when they do their little tactical libertarianism. It’s you being crushed under the boot of CSAM supporting financiers.
The fact they censor the slightest political speech while fighting their hardest to continually monetize the most disgusting things is a solid point which bears repeating.
It’s important to “redpill normies” but just as important to harden the resolve of our own people. Anyhow, I’m quite sure we’re not winning this by redpilling millions of normies in some magic moment, it’ll take hard work and building organizations to actually win.