Major credit card companies have been under pressure to block payments to adult websites that cannot ensure the legality of their hosted content. The advocates contend that financial institutions play a supportive role in facilitating the spread of abusive and illegal pornography. Though the vast majority of Pornhub content is likely to involve consenting adults, the report found, many of the videos do not. “Today, the use of our cards at Pornhub is being terminated,” Mastercard said in a statement Thursday to The Washington Post. “We are instructing the financial institutions who serve MindGeek to suspend processing of payments through the Visa network,” Visa said in a statement to The Post.

Source: Washington Post December 10, 2020 23:26 UTC