A while back patreon and itch banned a lot of NSFW artists under pressure from VISA/Mastercard. You know, porn comics and games. That kind of thing. I was reading about one creator who was forced to pre-emptively remove step-incest between consenting adults (who crucially were adults and also looked like adults) from his visual novel, after consulting patreon, so he could continue to receive money from them and publish on the platform.

Obviously, some of this stuff can be distasteful, but the tube sites are filled with porn of actual people and blatant incest plot lines. The porn industry also has a record of dubious consent, abuse, questionable ethics, rape, and child abuse. Apparently less of an issue for visa/mastercard, who continued to profit off those sites. IRC there was a recent complaint that VISA or Mastercard was still profiting off child sexual abuse material on OnlyFans, and were still recently facilitating advertisements on some of the bigger tube sites which had hosted CSA.

Pretty grim stuff, but I don't know what the solution is. I don't think forcing legitimate sex workers into illegality, because they can no longer use a bank account or credit card, is helpful either.

On a lighter note, back to the author of the visual novel. The author of the visual novel in question had removed all step-incest, but when he asked if he should also remove the bestiality, that turned out to be no problem at all.

Apparently there are some things money can't buy; but for cartoons of bestiality, there's Mastercard.

To not get buried you have to say something politically or racially divisive. Just nothing about boobs.

I got dowvoted for pointing this out elsewhere on Lemmy, but I’ll offer some extra info on this - the platforms say they don’t censor swear words, kill, murder, etc. That may or may not be true. But what is true is that they want advertisers, the advertisers dictate what kind of posts they want to be associated with, and what kind they don’t. So if advertisers say they don’t want to be associated with sex, drugs, death, guns, etc. a post will not get many ads. The algorithm pushes moneymaking posts to the top, so the most “ad-worthy” are the ones shoved in your face and the ones with few or no ads get buried.

So the platforms have deniability that they don’t directly censor normal content, but the algorithm is essentially set up to bury “undesirable” words.

So people censor so they don’t get buried.

You literally control the media albert stop making zombie super soldiers and fix this shit.

Yeah, I recall way too much irrelevant information, but surprisingly, I’m excellent at Trivial Pursuit.

Apparently, he ceased communicating with his family before his divorce from Nicole Kidman.