PayPal Pulls Out of Pornhub, Hurting 'Hundreds of Thousands' of Performers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/d3abgv/paypal-pulls-out-of-pornhub-payments?utm_campaign=Recruiting%20Brainfood&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Revue%20newsletterGIG ECONOMY
Issue #162
23 Apr 2020
The power imbalance between payments providers and content creators is laid bare in this weeks decision by PayPal to pull out of Pornhub - leaving thousands of platform workers scrambling for alternatives, none of which adequately replace PayPal’s market dominance. Financial de-platforming…perhaps an unpleasant yet necessary consideration for platform workers in the gig economy.