No but for real:
MasterCard getting to determine what counts as "adult" content, including drawn images like figure studies?
Patreon handing your face data & ID information over to a 3rd party?
That 3rd party claiming a right to use that data to train their facial recognition "AI"?
@Wolven I've seen this pattern before on the Internet where people need to pay the bills for their site, and the only viable mechanism to collect payments is through credit cards, so the credit card processor oligopoly becomes the de facto arbiter of what forms of expression are acceptable. It's awful.
@Wolven Actually, this always struck me as one of the best reasons to be interested in cryptocurrency, with the idea that it might create a mechanism for online payments not controlled by any such cartel. Of course, cryptocurrency has turned out to be impractical as a payment system (for social and technical reasons) and have the pretty predictable negative side-effects, so it doesn't seem like it's actually a good solution to that problem.
