US civics 101. The first amendment mostly restricts government action. This is not a free speech issue unless you want to legislate that adult content is a protected class or want to make a special clause for payment processing.

This is a perfect use case for crypto imo.

If you are making an argument that new legislation needs to made, great but unfortunately people jump to the idea that this is immediately a free speech issue.

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Fargren 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Freedom of speech is not defined by the US constitution. Free speech is an ideological stance, not a legal definition. US laws protects some forms of free speech and not others.

	▲	infecto 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Good luck with that. We can all day long discuss what is free speech and not free speech but unless it’s a protected class or a carveout for payment processors it does not matter. Propose solutions instead. You could argue that payment processors control so much of the market that it’s like the government limiting speech but I would counter argue that they could use crypto easily. Not to mention usually businesses use payment processors as the scape goat. Very few business, other than purpose built, want to deal with adult content.

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Worf 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Could a case be made not from a free speech POV but from a antitrust one?