Banking
Aug. 5, 2022
After Pornhub ruling, VISA, MasterCard part with MindGeek
U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney said VISA made a decision to facilitate child pornography of porn ‘tube’ sites.
Visa and MasterCard announced on Thursday that they would suspend card payments for advertising on Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek after a federal judge ruled that the credit card companies facilitated the distribution of child porn.
“With respect to MindGeek specifically, we suspended sites that contained user-generated content in December 2020 and acceptance on those sites has not been reinstated,” Visa Chairman and Chief Executi...
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