Kickstarter just killed its new mature content rules

Last week, we noted Kickstarter's new contented guidelines which had immoderate beauteous weird caller additions, including a prohibition connected "sexual wellness products that are not designed for insertion oregon penetration and are not marketed chiefly for intersexual gratification." Those rules person present been eliminated and the institution has restored an earlier mentation of its guidelines.

In an apology missive issued today from COO Sean Leow, Kickstarter confirmed that the caller rules were influenced by the outgo processor Stripe:

The updates to the rules were chiefly driven by requirements from our payments processor, Stripe. Stripe operates nether its ain ineligible …

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