Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up [petition on Change.org, currently 203K signatures] [direct link in comments]
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Mastercard refused to allow people to donate to Julian Assange. Blatant political interference.I cut up my Mastercard.Update: After reading the Collective Shout website, I completely changed my mind on what they’re doing. I donated to them. The stuff they are campaiging against, specifically the game No Mercy is disgusting, glorifying rape of your mother and sisters? Who the hell thinks thats a “game”? Sick.
Did you close it tho?
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They only took 1000 calls from an Australian hate group to start censoring shit… and every single post on bluesky about calling/contacting them to stop doing this has over 20k notes. They’re beyond cooked.
Does anywhere list numbers to call to do the same thing but about unnecessary censorship?
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Sign the Petition
MasterCard and Visa are interfering with legal entertainment — often under pressure from advocacy groups who want to censor what they deem "Problematic". We demand an end to this censorship of fiction, and the right to choose the stories we enjoy without moral policing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MasterCard and Visa have increasingly used
Change.org (www.change.org)
Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up
The petition addressed that MasterCard and Visa must stop censoring legal fictional content that complies with the law and platform standards.
International Business Times UK (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
FWIW for itch.io the main issue is specifically Stripe this time according to one of their employees.
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Did you close it tho?
It can’t be closed, it’s been cut too many times.
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It can’t be closed, it’s been cut too many times.
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I’ll never forget that opener they did where Dwight starts a fire and they throw that cat through the ceiling. 11/10
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MasterCard and Visa are interfering with legal entertainment — often under pressure from advocacy groups who want to censor what they deem "Problematic". We demand an end to this censorship of fiction, and the right to choose the stories we enjoy without moral policing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MasterCard and Visa have increasingly used
Change.org (www.change.org)
Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up
The petition addressed that MasterCard and Visa must stop censoring legal fictional content that complies with the law and platform standards.
International Business Times UK (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
I mean yeah they shouldn’t get involved in that. Just let the law deal with the people buying things that would be illegal. And this is also why cash and crypto (for online purchases) are the best way to buy things. Credit card companies should have no say in what people buy.
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MasterCard and Visa are interfering with legal entertainment — often under pressure from advocacy groups who want to censor what they deem "Problematic". We demand an end to this censorship of fiction, and the right to choose the stories we enjoy without moral policing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MasterCard and Visa have increasingly used
Change.org (www.change.org)
Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up
The petition addressed that MasterCard and Visa must stop censoring legal fictional content that complies with the law and platform standards.
International Business Times UK (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Payment processors need to STAY IN THEIR OWN FUCKING LANE!
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Does anywhere list numbers to call to do the same thing but about unnecessary censorship?
Have one of them! There’s dozens of posts about this on Bluesky, you could really pick if you wanted.
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Does anywhere list numbers to call to do the same thing but about unnecessary censorship?
One-tap dial phone numbers:
Master card
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US + Can English
(skips card number input)
Visa
PayPal
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US English
Say “make a complaint”
Stripe (unconfirmed)
Script:
I’m calling to urge [company name] to immediately end the policy that unfairly targets the adult content industry. I’m also asking that [company name] sit down with stakeholders- specifically sex workers and adult content creators- to develop solutions that ensure equitable access to financial services, create stability, and reduce harm for sex workers.
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FWIW for itch.io the main issue is specifically Stripe this time according to one of their employees.
Stripe fuckin’ sucks for that. I’ve run into them pulling shit over hot sauce and other completely innocuous stuff over the years.
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Lol. Yeah I closed it. But declaring bankruptcy is more fun.
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Stripe fuckin’ sucks for that. I’ve run into them pulling shit over hot sauce and other completely innocuous stuff over the years.
Hot sauce? Wtf?
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MasterCard and Visa are interfering with legal entertainment — often under pressure from advocacy groups who want to censor what they deem "Problematic". We demand an end to this censorship of fiction, and the right to choose the stories we enjoy without moral policing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MasterCard and Visa have increasingly used
Change.org (www.change.org)
Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up
The petition addressed that MasterCard and Visa must stop censoring legal fictional content that complies with the law and platform standards.
International Business Times UK (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
A petition is useless. There needs to be an opposing organization whose members do exactly what these other asshats to, and call and write letters to the payment processors threatening boycotts and publicity.
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Sign the Petition
MasterCard and Visa are interfering with legal entertainment — often under pressure from advocacy groups who want to censor what they deem "Problematic". We demand an end to this censorship of fiction, and the right to choose the stories we enjoy without moral policing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ MasterCard and Visa have increasingly used
Change.org (www.change.org)
Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up
The petition addressed that MasterCard and Visa must stop censoring legal fictional content that complies with the law and platform standards.
International Business Times UK (www.ibtimes.co.uk)
Okay I’m stupid.
What’s wrong with removing rape and incest games from Steam?
Edit: Thank you all for your answers, I was nervous to ask the question incase I would come off as a troll or ass hole or something and piss everyone off. They are very informative and have given me much to read and think about.
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Okay I’m stupid.
What’s wrong with removing rape and incest games from Steam?
Edit: Thank you all for your answers, I was nervous to ask the question incase I would come off as a troll or ass hole or something and piss everyone off. They are very informative and have given me much to read and think about.
First, they will remove rape and incest, then they will remove all LGBT games, then they will remove all nsfw, and then they will remove all violent games and so on until only the games deemed acceptable by the US evangelicals are left.
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Okay I’m stupid.
What’s wrong with removing rape and incest games from Steam?
Edit: Thank you all for your answers, I was nervous to ask the question incase I would come off as a troll or ass hole or something and piss everyone off. They are very informative and have given me much to read and think about.
The issue is payment processors unilaterally revoking access to content based on what they (or a conservative hate group with a telephone campaign) personally find morally impermissable.
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First, they will remove rape and incest, then they will remove all LGBT games, then they will remove all nsfw, and then they will remove all violent games and so on until only the games deemed acceptable by the US evangelicals are left.
Woah, so I know you’re not saying rape and incest is part of LGBT, but that sentence kinda made the jump. How did we get from rape and incest to LGBT? Why can’t just rape and incest be removed and stop there?
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The issue is payment processors unilaterally revoking access to content based on what they (or a conservative hate group with a telephone campaign) personally find morally impermissable.
Well not sure about you, but I’d like to agree rape and incest is pretty fucked up so yeah it probably should be removed, so why should people have to see that on their computers in the first place?
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Woah, so I know you’re not saying rape and incest is part of LGBT, but that sentence kinda made the jump. How did we get from rape and incest to LGBT? Why can’t just rape and incest be removed and stop there?
Conservative movements are not known for their restraint and fairness. They cannot be trusted to not abuse people.
