>>53131
Everyone knows you can't prove a negative. The burden of proof is on the person/org making an accusation of wrongdoing. I have no idea where IWC is based out of, but from what I can tell C4S is headquartered in Cyprus, and ManyVids is located in Canada. You won't even be able to get them into court using an EO based in the USA. At most you might be able to drag their US-based proxies into a courtroom, but they'd just argue that it was a business decision, not a religious or political one, and to blame Visa/MasterCard for forcing their hand.
Visa and MasterCard on the other hand are both American companies, and are effectively large, fat, slow-moving targets that you could definitely drag into a courtroom, especially with a good enough legal team behind you. The problem is that at least with Visa, you don't have a religious argument to even remotely stand on. With MasterCard, you might actually be able to make a religious argument if you could get it on record that religious views of the people who run MasterCard are fairly consistent, and that they're somehow infringing on your religious beliefs. Is there a religion that encourages AB/DL porn consumption or age regression? Is anyone on here willing to go full L. Ron Hubbard and actually create one just to force Visa/MasterCard's hand? Maybe Larry Flint would have back in the day, but I don't see anyone stepping in to fill his shoes.
Your other option is to somehow prove that this decision is political. At some level it probably is political, but actually proving it in a court of law takes evidence that we don't necessarily have.
And yes, Visa/MasterCard would absolutely argue "reputational harm/damage to corporate image" as their counterargument, as well as "the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason or no reason at all." Unfortunately their case is far easier to prove.
>>53158
Obviously, but this is an EO that's only (barely) enforceable on US soil. You would need to find a group like Collective Shout! that's actively pressured Visa/MasterCard to force C4S/MV/IWC to change their policies in order to make this argument, need an American whose been affected by it, (can't buy AB/DL porn or can't sell their AB/DL porn,) and thus has standing to actually bring a lawsuit, and would then need lawyers capable of convincing a jury in a civil case that the decision was purely motivated by political reasons and not other factors. You'd have a better shot in this scenario, but even that isn't a guaranteed win.
Right now the best options are to either force Visa/MasterCard to reverse their policy by publicly embarrassing them over this and making it into a scandal that won't go away until they change course, or to find a way to cut Visa/MasterCard out of the payment process so that their complaints don't affect C4S/MV/IWC. Come up with a payment method where their an irrelevance and you've solved the problem.