A major porn purveyor has been tossed from Instagram, the popular social media platform, and an organization that helped get it tossed says children are safer and the website is better.
story of the week, month and we ll see whether it is of the year. visa and mastercard have been accused of effectively not child pornography themselves, but enabling child pornography and sex trafficking on sites like porn hub and other sites like that on the internet. a judge had a ruling and a decision late last week about this, that effectively implicated mastercard and visa. now mastercard and visa historically have taken the position that they are the equivalent of the greyhound bus, the train tracks and they don t get involved in looking at which merchants their in business with and what those merchants do. this decision both by the judge and then their reaction to it this week, which is to say we re actually going to stop doing business with these folks in a very, very meaningful way.
be here to break down the number and why the markets might not like it. andrew also wanted to talk about this headline, quote, visa and mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on porn hub amid controversy. he will have to explain to us what is going on here. next on morning joe.
their business strategy and some reported tensions with the ultimate owner. but for anybody who is looking to advertise on porn hub right now, they could not do that with visa and master card. seems reasonable to me. cnbc s joumanna bercetche, have a great weekend. we ll talk to you again sood. still ahead new reporting on russia s plans to fake evidence the ate of a war crime. we will talk to the journist behind that story next. (johnny cash) i ve traveled every road in this here land! i ve been everywhere, man. i ve been everywhere, man. crossed the desert s bare, man. i ve breathed the mountain air, man. of travel i ve had my share, man. i ve been everywhere. i ve been to: pittsburgh, parkersburg, gravelbourg, colorado, ellensburg, cedar city, dodge city, what a pity. i ve been everywhere, man. i ve been everywhere, man. i ve been everywhere. you ain t seen nothin yet b-b-baby, you just ain t seen n-n-nothin yet