Sen. Josh Hawley: Mastercard told me they are terminating use of their cards on PornHub

Twitter ^ | Dec 10 | Sen. Josh Hawley

[KobraKai]

Just wait until Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T decide that they don’t want conservatives to be able to use their lines of communication for internet/telephone services. Free Republic is no longer some safe haven when you can’t even get internet access.

We are going to have to come up with an alternative method of communication and it will probably have to be low-tech.

[proust]

Highly motivated groups say the same about this site.

[Boogieman]

The left got away with it when they wanted to target gun stores, so it’s all fair game now.

[Boogieman]

But the ads on PornHub are just more porn...

[beef]

When they have indictments and court orders shutting it down, then fine. Until them they are a legally operation business being harassed by legal end runs. You think this is clever, but when your bank accounts are closed because they have been pressured not to do business with “fascists”, you will think otherwise. We have rule of law and due process for a reason.

[Boogieman]

They operate under the same kind of system as youtube, facebook, etc. The users can upload anything, and the website has to make only a cursory effort to police it, by say reviewing and removing content that users flag. It’s not feasible for any large website with users uploading content to police very upload so they aren’t legally required to do that.

[Boogieman]

Slap Mastercard with a lawsuit for “tortous interference” and they might change their mind, but then again, Mastercard is probably big enough to stand their ground.

[Magnatron]

What is Josh Hawley doing that he’s so intimate with this decision?

[Shadow44]

I was personally banned from PayPal three years ago and blacklisted by the Credit Card companies after I donated to a legal defense fund for somebody arrested after being assaulted by Antifa.

I got news for you, this already happened and has been ongoing for years. Now what? Am I supposed to lament that Mastercard and Visa decided that financial aiding a criminal racket was a bad look? What does it say about things that American Nationalists got cracked down on YEARS before child pornographers and sex traffickers?

[SanchoP]

I gotta ask. Are pornstars as grotesque in person as they are in films? Some of them don’t even look human.

[beef]

“Slap Mastercard with a lawsuit for “tortous interference”

I think it probably should goes under racketeering laws. Read about SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty). Their tactics were very similar to what is going on now. They were taken down with racketeering laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Huntingdon_Animal_Cruelty

[beef]

“What does it say about things that American Nationalists got cracked down”

What is says is that things are going to get much worse if we perpetuate these practices.

[Shadow44]

We're not going to do anything, because we don't have institutional power. At the end of the day, Mastercard and Visa are going to do what they want unless they're forced to stop. The credit card companies are only doing this now as CYA because federal prosecutors are probably going to get involved.

All of this has nothing to do with the fact that PornHub was exposed in engaging in massive amounts of criminal activity. PornHub is a racket and its parent company MindGeek should be prosecuted and its assets seized.

[ponygirl]

... appoint gay people to every top management position.

I see what you did there ...

[Bshaw]

“Just curious - who pays for porn? I thought it is all free?”

We should ask Hunter...

[Old Yeller]

Why would you pay for porn when you can get a real chinee ladyspy to mine your yogurt?

That only applies if you are a Demonrat who chairs a national intelligence committee.

[Republican Wildcat]

This country is in a political absolute disaster and he is worried about this?

Did you even know what the issue is before you made this comment?

[poinq]

So pornhub uses credit cards?

[Republican Wildcat]

Reading through the comments on this thread is simply unreal.

No one pays any attention to current events and doesn’t have the first clue what this is about, and don’t bother to research it, but they don’t hesitate to form strong opinions about it.

Unbelieveable.

[SJackson]

Cheaper than Dirt ships to Lake County. You might find a few others presuming you’re not in Cook. CTD will want a copy of your FOID which underlies the problem of shipping ammo to IL.