>Can someone with knowledge of these things clarify the ramifications for their business if they were to allow something like this on their platform?
Worst case (ignoring the legal side of things) their payment processors stop working with them and Patreon needs to find new payment processors that allow for more high risk transactions. To avoid paying the higher processing fees Patreon would want to find a way to use payment processors who are okay with these higher risk transacions to only be used on these higher risk patreons.
Worst case (ignoring the legal side of things) their payment processors stop working with them and Patreon needs to find new payment processors that allow for more high risk transactions. To avoid paying the higher processing fees Patreon would want to find a way to use payment processors who are okay with these higher risk transacions to only be used on these higher risk patreons.