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Originally Posted by KrisKross
You use big words and long paragraphs in an attempt to look smart but you can't think of how an affiliate account could be used for money laundering?
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No. I can't. But you are so smart, why don't you explain it. Explain to me how I can launder funds through my CCBill affiliate account? Please. i'm waiting, Mr. Intelligence.
And you accuse me of using big words as if I'm just compensating for lack of cognitive skills. No. I just use my regular lexicon, and quite frankly I made it a point to not use words that would confuse people in here. Breathtaking you would try to imply I've used fancy words but make no sense, when anybody with intelligence would clearly see the ones not making sense are the ones going along with this trend.
One of the most frequent replies goes something like this: I have to do KYC. Companies are doing KYC. You should have to do it, too! Just accept it!
Rape happens. Murder happens. Does something happening make it ipso facto good or something we should accept? Now let's pretend affiliate programs are doing KYC because they truly are legally required to do KYC on affiliate webmasters. Perhaps that would shift the blame away from the affiliate programs and squarely onto the government. But even so, it's still something I would oppose. It's government overreach. Just because something is done mean people should accept what is being done. This attitude of blind obedience to authority is what precipitates hardcore totalitarianism, which is the trajectory we are on. When so many people accept things without question, no wonder.
If believing that governments and people and businesses can do wrong, and that people should oppose bad policy, makes me stupid, then I'm guilty as charged. I'm totally stupid. I'm stupid for believing people should actually evaluate what they are being asked to do.
On this very forum thread, people have actually stated things like affiliate webmasters are customers of affiliate programs. No we aren't. As an affiliate webmaster, I SELL TRAFFIC. CCBill and Gamma buy traffic from affiliate webmasters. That makes CCBill and Gamma customers of the affiliate webmasters. But even so, should cashiers at Wal-Mart demand to see your papers every time you go through the checkout line? After all, you could be a shady person if the cashiers at Wal-Mart don't get to look at your ID and SSN, and it's up to Wal-Mart to make sure they have no shady customers!
And for the ones that support this overreach, you are that incapable of seeing how the very system you are defending is what is creating the biggest risk to all of us? Let's pretend CCBill itself is 100% honest and nobody at CCBill ever does anything wrong. You don't see how the proliferation of personal information, the frequent transmission of sensitive data, creates additional risk? As if there aren't hackers? Not to mention, there's a paradox in the world view. People are so inherently untrustworthy they shouldn't be allowed to do something completely legal and honest such as generating affiliate traffic for customers without being KYC'ed by their very own customers, but simultaneously it's a good idea for everybody to collect sensitive personal information on each other. You don't trust me, but you want me to have access to all of your personal information. Amazing.