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Originally Posted by Brad Mitchell
After a dozen years of friendship with the Cadwells and key CCBill employees I am not overnight going to be a fickle (definition: Characterized by erratic changeableness or instability, especially with regard to affections or attachments; capricious) friend. I do not accept that they are complicit (definition: Involvement as an accomplice in a questionable act or a crime). I will not argue about "could have done this" or "should have done that" differently. I don't believe for a New York second either Ron or Stephanie as owners would not cease processing or hosting upon discovery of criminal activity or any activity which does not meet the compliance requirements of card associations.
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Now that CCbill has been made aware of multiple instances of child porn on uploaded.to, they removed processing only long enough to remove 2 of the 3 links that I sent them, then they re-activated processing again.
As of today, they know exactly what that site is doing and they re-activated processing. Doesn't that now make them involved? How can anyone from that company claim they are innocent after today?
Sure, before it was brought to their attention it could be argued, that I agree, but now the can of worms is open and they know, yet they process for them anyway, after they were caught with child porn. Boggles the mind and defies all logic.
CCbill even sent me an email today telling me not to inform anyone at their company of such content or send them links in any manner. And this came after a high up CCbill employee ASKED ME FOR LINKS in regards to the Oron situation just a few days ago. So they have clearly had a meeting about this and now have a policy in place, which is don't send us any links or anything about the content, we are sticking our head in the sand.
What this says is to the industry is, "Yea, we know they were selling child porn but the couple of links you pointed out are now gone so we will continue to do business with them anyway. Tough shit. In the meantime we're going to stick our heads in the sand, tell you it's illegal for you to send us links to content we process for, and we're going to fuel the jet so we can meet up with Chris Mallick, because we hear he's good at planning exit strategies."
That is the message I heard today.
Brad, I can not imagine for one second that you would allow one of your clients to continue to host with you if they were found to be selling child porn.