Anytime that someone is going to get sued for monetizing something that is illegal somewhere, the payment processor is likely to get pulled in also as part of the lawsuit. It's been shown that the payment processor can't say "we just move money from one customer to another" and absolve themselves of liability in the court case.
While some of that content may be legal in the US, it isn't everywhere else in the world. As such, they're going to be in the situation of Collective Shout saying "when we sue {company} for hosting that content, we're going to sue you too for allowing {company} to monetize it through your system."
Payment processors have lost that court case before and are likely rather risk adverse to be brought into another one.
Yes. Like any other lawsuit. They try to sue anyone tangentially related to the case. That is more a quirk/issue with the American legal system more than anything.
>While some of that content may be legal in the US, it isn't everywhere else in the world.
Okay, then they deal with it in the other parts of the world. We wouldn't have much of the internet available if companies had to comply worldwide with every local law.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornography_in_Australia#Illeg...
While some of that content may be legal in the US, it isn't everywhere else in the world. As such, they're going to be in the situation of Collective Shout saying "when we sue {company} for hosting that content, we're going to sue you too for allowing {company} to monetize it through your system."
Payment processors have lost that court case before and are likely rather risk adverse to be brought into another one.