Im from the UK I was worried when our government had the idea of making citizen use their id to goto Lewd or 18+ websites (that never happened luckily) and also their weird situation with some kinks and posting content said kinks (supposedly and these were rather normal kinks?).
I feel like this new bit of pulling payment processors is just the next level of the failed experiments or propositions they did here. Ever since that scare I could see it developing into this.
I do find it rather funny or ironic that both sides are bashing each other for this situation while it seems like it has (for the moment) no political bias to one side.
It all just seems to be abuse of power as there's no actual alternatives to these payment processors unless you wanna go with crypto (good fucking luck). I feel like these company's (gumroad/patreon) must comply due to this. How else are they going to do payments?
