It’s specifically due to a moral panic group, Collective Shout, pressuring credit card companies to do this. Litigation isn’t really part of it, just angry organized people on the Internet.

How do they apply pressure though? (they threaten to sue)

And they’d lose a huge number of potential sales.

God damn chad… You ain’t wrong, naming the perp is first step in any proprr discourse.

USians are allergic to naming the parasite it seems tho

I don’t think we should be giving corporations a pass for caving to challenges from authority whether it’s hard or not.

Whether it’s valve pulling NSFW content, universities expelling students, or CBS firing people over political speech it’s all anti-consumer behavior driven by a financial incentive to cater to a bully with too much power. They’re all just rolling over and showing their belly rather than deal with a problem in the short term.

If Valve or Itch had paired that statement with a statement about what other payment processing options they were pursuing that might someday lead them back to a pro-consumer position I’d be on board for granting them some grace on the issue, but to the best of my knowledge from the articles I’ve seen, their position has been “tell me what to do Daddy”. If I’m wrong about that I apologize and I’ll start reading different sources.

There’s just too much capitulation to anti-free-speech behavior and I’m not ready to give anyone a pass at this point.

The short term strategy would probably be to introduce Y payment processor and make it the preferred method of payment. Encourage it’s use industry wide and encourage consumers to adopt that method as widely as possible.

If that takes off… Then they can tell the other processors to get fucked.

Do you know that or are you speculating?

Nothing but hypocrisy from Visa and MasterCard - there are far more NSFW content on Xitter than in games and yet I don’t see a peep of them banning payment towards that little blue checkmark.

Can you directly pay for porn on Twitter?

People always say crypto has no value and is a scam but i don’t see how a stablecoin like usdc isn’t a much simpler solution vs trying to break the duopoly

Collective Shout seems to aim for X next, according to their site.

Maybe we can angrily organize against them?

If only the Internet hadn’t spent the last decade collectively shitting on crypto instead of maybe learning a bit about how it works and what it could be used for.

biting the hand that seig heils

What happens when anti-porn organisations like Collective Shout go after the currency exchanges?

Love how the bottom of the page is like

We are an independent registered charity with no affiliation to religious or political institutions.

Meanwhile, the founder

In 2007, she published Defiant Birth: Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics[7], to a conservative journal called The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly before being republished by Spinifex press.

The journal is periodically published by a conservative think tank called The National Catholic Bioethics Center.

In 2009, Tankard Reist spoke at a forum called, “Event: Inspiring Christians Series” in the Belconnen Baptist Church on behalf of Sheridan Voysey.

Melinda Tankard Reist - Wikipedia

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She’s all about women. As long as they produce children regardless of how they were impregnated and are wives in Catholic marriages.

They basically have mon/du/triopolies in their field. Deciding to take less money is the only thing that hurts their bottom line. What’s a noisy group of a dozen assholes going to do, use a different processor? The very thing that allowed them to pressure the other companies is what makes them immune from these stupid threats

Presumably they do what Visa/Mastercard should have done, and tell them to shove it. It’s just a bunch of uppity idiots from Australia, no one HAS to listen to them…