Its about a lot more than just money. But people are idiots that rarely care about context, reasons, or results. They hear a sentence they like and cheer "Woo! Fuck em up! Break things until no liberty is left!" Then later they scratch their head and wonder why everything is fucked up. Its because they and those like them let themselves be used as tools to advance liberty destroying agendas. The current one being no privacy and total information control. With Visa and MasterCard leading the pack in striving to control the entire planet right down to what people think in the privacy of their own homes as usual. Its as if no one anywhere remembers the many many recent attempts to normalise having your every online action attached to an ID. People reject that so the porn pass came about. People reject that too and suddenly to no surprise we have the crisis that gets the ball rolling. For those who do care enough to think a bit instead of living like a lemming: Edit: Pornhub supposedly had a fraction of a fraction of its content be deemed illegal. Some came forth to say they were raped and their videos were put on the site. Every single video had a link to report illegal content. Pornhub loves to censor by default so this sounds fishy to begin with. Millions of videos could be uploaded to the site by anyone and anonymously. (Not any more. One liberty down.) Even if the site wanted to censor everything its unreasonable to demand any group to flawlessly screen content. They couldnt if they wanted to purely due to the sheer quantity of the content. This is why the site had unrelated things like frequently censored political content or an old man that talks about eating watermellon for almost an hour. Thats not even including that they are basically being told that they should have the inhuman ability to judge an anonymous persons identity and circumstance without flaw. No one anywhere can do that. Since individual videos cant really be censored to perfection the solution to that little bit of honesty and freedom that slips through the cracks is to censor the entire site. Since this can be done to what was the worlds largest porn site it can be done to every site. (You didnt think that this site out of every other site on the planet was the one to be hit without reason did you?) So now millions of videos regardless of content and be they with real people or obvious fiction are purged. Other sites seemed to have had a knee jerk reaction too. Purging things regardless of legality. The government is insisting you abandon all privacy to post to porn sites. With that blackmail and slandering is easier than ever. You literally tell people what can be used against you. Of course ever new reasons will be found to abandon more privacy and liberty. Ever censoring more. The powers that be have a fat list of content they want purged from all media the world over. This is only a step in that. If your device wasnt tied to your identity already by posting porn it will be. There will of course eventually be new things added to the list and situations made mandatory. If allowed eventually the whole internet will be worse than twitter and its use will affect your life in horrible ways like never before.