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WePay Withholds Funds From Sick Woman Due To Offer Of Porn For Donations (techcrunch.com)
2 points by suprgeek on May 18, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



I'm fed up with credit card and payment processors deciding that they don't want to serve everyone unless he/she is doing actually illegal things.

Hell, I'm fine with CC processors e.g. declining business for cow meat sale in India (iirc slaughtering/eating cows is banned by law there), but as long as the service being paid for is legal in the country of the merchant and the customer, then a CC processor/payment network should be obliged to provide payment.

Providing essential services and infrastructure should be discrimination-free. This in my opinion includes cannabis vendors and growers, too. If sensible regulation existed in the US (or, even better, laws which require infrastructure providers to enter contracts!), then a whole host of problems could be avoided.

@Techcrunch: what crazy JS fuck do you do? On my netbook, the text flashes up for ~1-2sec, then the WHOLE PAGE goes gray for 30-50 seconds and then the text appears again. Is this active discrimination against Adblock users?


Previous Discussion From Yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7761346

Includes WePay response.




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