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Originally posted by skitten
I'm not familiar with epassporte...
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To the best of my understanding,
ePASSPORTe.com is a virtual ANONYMOUS Visa. You charge it up and put whatever you want as the Visa name. You could use "Donald Duck" if you wanted to. Then you take that Visa to a website and make your purchase like normal. The MERCHANT does not know who you are - rebills are not allowed (?) currently.
I believe, since Visa has pretty much destroyed all Adult Verifications Systems (AVS's) that "ePASSPORTe.com" type transactions are absolutely necessary for online freedom of speech especially in this "new" blogging era.
There must be a way for authors to accept payment without knowing who is supporting their disemmination of information.
And I'm a good example of this. I purposely go out onto boards and push peoples buttons to get attention. In other words, I go "blog" to win my customers one at a time. However, my "colourful" manner in which I do things ; ) ... is not necessary something someone wants to be associated with - even though they wish to support the disemmination of the information.
It's like - they wish they could say ...
"Any cowardly Father that permits the circumcision of their daughter should be castrated" like I do. But they do not want me to know it was them by their Visa and Email details supporting that initiative.
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It just seems that every time we turn around there are new laws, fees, regulations and restrictions placed on adult webmasters regarding credit card transactions. [/B]
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To me as I have watched this unfold - it's like prohibition.
A purposeful, multi-front two year plan of attack to clamp down on things.
the transaction front ...
the legal front with obscenity prosecutions...
and the accountability front ...
and it's not over yet.
I'm not saying that some changes did not need to occur - they did.