LordCrash That's why I think it should be a joint effort of the big porn companies. Talking nicely to the banks doesn't help at all. You need to hit them where it hurts, their profits. If the whole porn industry turned their back on credit cards the banks would probably notice that in their books - and it might lead to them reconsidering their take on censorship and gatekeeping...
In reality porn is such a small market that often tries to go under the radar. It was big some two decades ago, as there were barely any other online payments, but today it's nowhere to what Amazon on any decent non-adult processing generates. There're some few niched billing companies in the market working for adult, but it's nothing near PayPal, Stripe or anything that comes to mind.
There are so many misperceptions of adult industry. I'd wish there would be more common sense around.
Also it's mission impossible to get porn companies to agree on something. Like MindGeek/Pornhub are piece of garbage that has exploited the industry for a decade. Others aren't much better.
With SLR we try to move things to the next level. We are connecting people for common good. Atm we are looking to explore the situation and come up with a framework for the community.