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Furrygirl, have you considered that, maybe, just maybe, your choices are self defeating?
Trixie's boyfriend giving up billing rather than removing a link seems to be a very "high moral stand / low business sense" move. Perhaps he feels he was "making a point", but that point and $3 will get you a good coffee at Starbucks.
CCBill (and other adult sex sites processors and merchant account providers) are held to very tight standards by Visa and Mastercard. There are rules, and the rules are enforced. The rules enforced by CCBill and other are arbitrary because the rules forced on them are arbitrary as well.
In each and every one of the cases you listed here, a single link could have been removed and things would have been better. In each case, a bad business decision appears to have been made in order to "protect a cause", but in reality income was lost, and that loss of income could cut down the amount of money available to keep websites online to promote awareness of those causes or situations.
Adult porn sites should not link to sex information for minors, it shouldn't link to anything to do with pedophilia, and it shouldn't link to anything to do with rape. Visa and Mastercard have made it clear to CCBill and others that all of those are unacceptable as part of the rules for retaining their processing. It isn't CCBill randomly picking on certain causes or whatever. They are applying arbitrary rules imposed on them.
You are free to speak about whatever you want. You are free to run an adult website. There are rules regarding running an adult website and being able to accept credit cards. Unless you end up in a position in your life to change those rules (say like taking a lead position in Visa's policy department), you have to work with them, or work without income.
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