How very fascist of you to judge free expression on the most fringe elements. Let’s apply your standard to firearms or religions. Where people are involved there will always be some exploitation and abuse. Hopefully it stays on the margins.
Pornography has definitely become democratized through the rise of technology. I’m not sure how much of that site’s content you think is represented by fetish or illegal material but it hasn’t been shut down and is apparently popular.
From other coverage this seems like a case involving a California law and trying to say Visa as payment processor profits from underage content. The ramifications move beyond banks protecting organized crime to potentially making guns impossible to obtain because a manufacturer is held liable for misuse of its products. Unless they can show Visa failed to act, failed to report illegal underage activity this case makes little sense. On the other hand Visa has made payment processing choices based on politics so they opened themselves up to this.
Trying to equate pornography with the freedom to defend oneself and one’s property and political free speech is a fascist move. ;) It’s not the same thing. It’s a product - like abortion is supposedly a “medical procedure” and nobody should have the right to tell you not to get a medical procedure if you’re okay with it, and blah blah blah. Equating something that in fact robs its victims of freedom as a “right” - hm, well we just saw what happened to Roe v Wade. I guess..... abortion isn’t a “right.” It’s a product produced by exploiters and criminals that we’ve been carefully groomed to equate with a right - notwithstanding the rights of its victims, in the case of abortion, innocent fetuses. In the case of porn, it’s children, the disabled, and animals.
You sound like a dedicated pornography consumer. I’m totally not stepping on your toes here, dude. Nobody cares what I say.
Just relax: I’m sure big companies like Visa will always figure a way to keep enabling exploitation and abuse of minors and the disabled, which is profitable.
And I don’t see how I’m keeping you from getting your fix by telling the truth about something: Porn isn’t free speech. That people get swayed into letting it into their lives by some criminal with a pricey legal team calling it free speech creates decay in our society, just like normalizing homosexuality. I will never stop you from looking at what you like to look at, but it’s just like calling pornography “art” - it’s not THAT, either.
Have a nice day.