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Originally posted by mardigras
This is par for the US govt. Last year was spent eliminating Adult Verification Services and declaring that a credit card was by no means an effective means of age verification and now this year the govt. thinks it's a great idea to have Adult Verification Services and that a credit card is a means of age verification.
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I don't think that last year the issues with AVS were inspired by the US government.
It seems to me like in fact, although for the CC companies online porn brings lots of problems ( fraud, charge backs etc ), in reality there is no government pressure towards the CC companies to ban porn.
The US government only wants to stop the disrtribution of hardcore materials whereas Visa mostly wants to reduce fraud.
The US government has always declared that adult sites *should* require access with credit cards.
If Visa and / or Mastercard suddenly stopped processing for adult, it would be bad since that would in fact mean more free porn in the eyes of the government and the voters.
The realy issue is now not to allow the nex .xxx extension, since there is a danger that if i will be created, soon it will become mandatory.