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.

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?

Does anywhere list numbers to call to do the same thing but about unnecessary censorship?

FWIW for itch.io the main issue is specifically Stripe this time according to one of their employees.

It can’t be closed, it’s been cut too many times.

I’ll never forget that opener they did where Dwight starts a fire and they throw that cat through the ceiling. 11/10

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.

Payment processors need to STAY IN THEIR OWN FUCKING LANE!

Have one of them! There’s dozens of posts about this on Bluesky, you could really pick if you wanted.

One-tap dial phone numbers:

Master card

• US + Can English
  (skips card number input)

• Global

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Visa

• US English

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PayPal

• US English
  Say “make a complaint”

• Global

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Stripe (unconfirmed)

• US English

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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.

Stripe fuckin’ sucks for that. I’ve run into them pulling shit over hot sauce and other completely innocuous stuff over the years.

Lol. Yeah I closed it. But declaring bankruptcy is more fun.

Hot sauce? Wtf?

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.

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.

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.

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?