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Is it an ad revenue thing or a purity thing? Either way, booooo.
Probably a bit of both. Usually it's the payment processors being lobbied by vocal "Christian" groups.
i thought payment processors dont like porn because it has a high charge back rate.
It's Stripe. The CEO has ties with Palantir and Elon Musk and wants all porn to be banned.
Ironic, 100% chance he's a pedo
"Nobody gets adult porn if I can't get my pedophile porn!"
both are pedos, thiel just havnt been investigated heavily hes into younger men, boys where he can use thier blood to make him younger.
If you never know the motivation for something a company does, just know that the answer is always money.
It sounds like it's just insertable toys, so it might be a liability thing if they're afraid people are selling unsafe toys? Who knows. That's a really weird distinction and definitely one that payment processors don't make.
Nope, Monster Girl Academy got the axe too.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/krazykrow/monster-girl-academy-3-succubi-oni-centaurs-and-more
Another article confirmed it was payment processors again. This is why we can't have nice things.
Does Kickstarter have liability in general for Kickstarted projects? I'd kind of assume that that's on the specific project. I can't imagine that Kickstarter is in any kind of position to really do a domain-specific evaluation of whether a given project is in line with local regulations.
IIRC, no, they don't. They put the onus of proving the project is legit on the project maker and on the backers to be vigilant not falling for too good to be true projects.
Over the years kickstarter has become just another big marketing platform for big brands (for their niche) and pushing out smaller projects.
As a former serial backer, over the years I "only" have backed 40 or so (I don't remember the exact number and don't want to check now) and only 2 that failed to deliver. One, in hindsight, is blatantly a scam and kickstarter didn't do anything about it. The other one that didn't deliver is just mismanagement. At least it looked like it. Could still be a scam.
I really have no idea, and this would probably be jurisdiction dependent anyway.
They do allow things like food, which it seems would come with more liability anyway, if they can be held liable for kickstarted things.
Yes liability. That makes sense.
Why would Kickstarter be liable for someone else project.
That’s like trying to sue UberEats for delivering food that gave you food poisoning.
You can't really legalese yourself out of being liable if it can be shown you knew of an issue and did nothing to prevent it.
Now apply that to politics.