this video was brought to you by the tldr socials get more from tldr by following us on instagram and twitter where we post breaking news and explainers that never make it to youtube the link is down below you might have seen that payment providers are cracking down on content online effectively giving them control over what's bought and sold on the internet so today we're taking a look at mastercard's latest rules regarding adult content what they'll mean for sex workers and whether private payment processing companies really ought to be responsible for regulating the internet so we're going to split this video into three parts firstly we're going to explain the new rules and how they might affect porn online secondly we'll be looking at why the new rules have come under some criticism especially from adult content creators and thirdly we're going to take a look at some possible solutions and suggest that maybe government should be doing more so let's start with the new rules starting from friday the NUMBER_TOKENth of october sites that host adult content have had to comply with a whole load of new rules if they want to use mastercard to process their payments adult sites will need two one enter into a written contract with any content creator two require proof of age and identity of anyone involved in the contract three review all content before publication although this can be via an automated process four have an effective complaints process for reporting any content that's either illegal or violates any of the other rules and finally offer the ability for any person depicted in the content to get it taken down mastercard have also suggested but not confirmed that they're considering a ban on deep fakes which are basically videos have been digitally altered so they appear to be someone else in practice this basically means two things for content creators firstly they'll need to do a fair bit more paperwork before uploading content to prove that they're both who they say they are and they're old enough and secondly they'll face some delay when uploading content because it will have to be reviewed before publication according to mastercard these rules have been introduced to ensure that only lawful activity takes place on their network although these new rules are likely also a response to the growing public pressure on processing payment companies to play a more active role in limiting illegal activity on their networks for instance NUMBER_TOKEN women are currently suing visa along with the owners of pornhub for hosting unconsenting footage of them and in NUMBER_TOKEN some of us a left-wing pressure group tabled a proposal at mastercard's annual meeting to stop payments to far-right groups while the proposal was ultimately defeated its proposal is a symptom of the fact that the public has started to expect private payment processing companies to do their bit to tackle the more distasteful aspects of the online porn industry nonetheless while these rules might look sensible at first glance they have come under some criticism there are perhaps three main criticisms they're bad for sex workers they're not clear and they're not democratic let's start with the first and perhaps most significant criticism that the new rules actually hurt sex workers some sex workers and sex worker unions have argued that the new rules will make it harder for sex workers to make a living because it'll be more difficult more time consuming and more costly for sex workers to produce adult content reacting to this in september nearly NUMBER_TOKEN sex workers sex educators and other stakeholders signed a
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