So I use 4g net connection here in the UK and just tried to load what I assume is the site? coedcherry.com? I got a vodaphone (uk mobile phone co whose network I'm apparently connected via) nag page asking me to confirm me age, we protect young mobile users blah blah blah. Which... I have never seen before in the six months I've been using this connection. Any other porn site even massive ones like xvideos works fine, but coedcherry does not?

Which is very odd. I'm really rather perplexed as to why your site would be blocked but the biggest porn site on the net is not if the purpose here is to block childrens access to porn.

would you be open to chat via email? I'm also in Ontario Canada. Every time I breach this type of thing to a non-IT person, they say "oh, porn sites are all sex trafficking and exploitative work", which doesn't feel mathematically true. I'm not a journalist or anything, but would as personal curiosity love to hear an (ex-)operator's perspective :)

Very interesting. Also a bit scary how the government can basically shut down any business under the broad guise of “anti-money-laundering”. The level of detail that they wanted from you is basically like “Provide step-by-step instructions for someone at this bank to copy your business and capture your profits”.

Ah; I bet if title was "Legal Canadian adult site forced shut down due to billing processor" or something that provided context, it might have gotten more traction. Otherwise "Random site you've never heard of shutting down" does not entice interest necessarily :-/

( edit: Also, in your "Fuck Banks" page, I'm assuming " pay for offense expenses" is meant to be "pay for office expenses", in which case you may want to change it as "offense expenses" would go against much of the rest of the message of your post :-> )

> we will be ending our banking relationship with Amber-Lace Entertainment Ltd.[0]

> We found out, after connecting with industry colleagues, was that they all thought we were pretty dumb having the business name we do and were surprised this didn't happen way sooner.

The name isn't what killed the business in my opinion because it is quite tame. Your risk was probably evaluated by some automatic process and no innocuous name could have saved it.

[0] https://www.coedcherry.com/fuck-banks.html [NSFW]