> “Should Gumroad hire a lobbyist?” he asked in an email to TechCrunch.<p>Yes? I'm a little confused as to why platforms that feature adult material wouldn't be lobbying around payment processing requirements and regulations. I don't know much about the porn industry, but are there seriously not lobbyists in that industry?<p>OnlyFans got (effectively) banned from multiple states. They absolutely have a legal team and a PR team that's focused on the government. How would any platform that features adult content not be looking at OnlyFans and thinking, "maybe we should start prepping for legal/regulatory battles."?<p>I mean, heck, how are they not "lobbying" payment processors? TikTok basically unleashed its entire userbase on the government over a potential ban. When a payment processor starts messing with the content you can allow on a storefront, is there a reason why Gumroad isn't making contact information available for those payment processors and encouraging users to write to them? I'm sure it wouldn't help Stripe's relationship with Gumroad be any more chummy, but like... this is a business relationship, not a friendship. I don't know, these platforms act like they just got an edict from God rather than that they are being pressured by a business partner to make a business decision that their userbase dislikes. Am I out-of-line on this? I feel like when business agreements get restricted and that affects customers, it's relatively common for businesses to use that discontent as leverage in negotiations and not just say, "well, hands are tied, sorry everybody." When Sony restricted Spiderman, Disney was not shy about encouraging people to contact Sony.<p>I guess I assume there are complications with business relationships with payment processors that makes that harder? I don't know if there are any payment processors that do work with adult content, maybe Gumroad just knows that it doesn't have any bargaining chips to work with?<p>But I kind of get whiplash between looking at how companies respond to things like iOS restrictions vs how they respond to payment processing restrictions. I would have assumed that these types of businesses were already lobbying, everybody else seems to be. Maybe Gumroad is too small to have those kinds of legal resources? Is Patreon working with lobbyists? Is Kickstarter?