[Mister X]

Actually I did know that GM owns a chunk of the satellite biz. But that isn't online porn and they don't have big hassles with Visa. And who cares who really owns what? As long as the large majority of companies are privately held we will never know for sure who owns what or what they really make.

I stick by what I said about the biggest player in the porn biz not having the juice to influence Visa in the slightest in anything. Porn is a tiny little drop in their planet sized bucket. I would be a lot more likely to believe that the extreme conservative politics of the current US gov't have a hell of a lot more to do with it. Visa is a lot more likely to listen to gentle hints from Washington than they are to demands from anybody in the porn biz. After all the people who might make those "suggestions" are the same people who control things like the Federal Trade Comission and other organizations charged with the monitoring of the behemoths.

Is it a coincidence that their policies have been growing more and more restrictive since GW? You be the judge!