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If you live in Canada, call your MP and Reps to block these bills
#SaveSpeech

If you, like me, want to watch payment processors suffer AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE? Call from the day before Black Friday to like the day before Christmas at minimum.

I know it's hard to have a perpetual campaign, so think of it as just this month for now.

As an adult gamedev, none of "Horses" sounds problematic except that the men are naked. That puts the Scrutiny Meter up to eleven, and if you then have a scene with a naked woman and a clothed daughter, Valve will reach for the Ban Hammer

My advice, as a former call center supervisor, is to fish for ways to escalate your call to a supervisor. Upper management HATES when the supe call cue is long. We used to be in perpetual callback hell back where I worked and they constantly devoted extra resources to combating it.

call your representatives and demand they oppose KOSA, Sammy's law and the App Store Accountability Act. I'm going to try my best to loom through the other bills to see what else needs to be targeted by us, but for now focus on those three!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

Already seeing folks say, "Well, HORSES isn't YUCKY PORN like other games are, so..." which is super frustrating.

Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.

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Corporations are relying on shame to stop folks from fighting to keep porn around. An amazing way to fight against this stuff is to simply not be ashamed of sex and sexuality; even if you think some of it is "cringe". You'll do yourself a favor by eliminating your shame about sex.

Ive seen some posts like DCS says here, trying to draw a line between Horses [extremely bullshit] censorship and various more explicit games on Steam [with the implication being that THEY deserve it but not Horses]

Please. Those other "nasty" games are your ALLIES not your enemies.

if youre calling paypros and looking for a talking point to use as a jumping off point, this is a great angle to go for!

alongside just wasting their time, hammer the idea that their actions are LOSING them money!

Chairmen Guthrie and Bilirakis Announce Legislative Hearing on Protections for Children and Teens Online The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing com...

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the Energy and Commerce Commission are having a hearing on Dec 2nd to look at a whole swatch of legislation claiming it will "protect children. We have a full list of the bills that will be present, and it includes bills like KOSA, Sammy's Law, App Store Accountability Act and more!

Badinternetbills.com
Stopkosa.com

IGN is paying attention to censorship again. Use their momentum, call visa and mastercard, tell them you read the article, ask them why they're censoring legal stuff

reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie

Not Gonna Lie, folks. I am incredibly dubious in this day and age of any study that states 'you don't reach adulthood until X' considering how the 'full brain at 25' thing has been weaponized by both young and old to avoid responsibility and deny autonomy

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with Black Friday being this Friday the 28th, this is the time to maximize the impact we can have via call campaigns

If you plan to participate in this call campaign, imo you should heavily prioritize calling Visa/MC as heavily as possible between the 27th and the 1st of dec

while i stress that it is a marathon not a race, i think this is an opportunity where we DO need to treat it like a sprint, temporarily.

settle back into your marathon routine afterwards, but during Black Friday weekend, you SHOULD be sprinting if possible.

there's an infographic here with contact info for Visa and Mastercard's call centers!

If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.

Hello [REPRESENTATIVE NAME], I'm [NAME] and I am a constituent from [LOCATION]. I'm emailing you because I want to give my opinion on some bills that are currently being discussed in parliament. As a Canadian citizen, I want to urge [REPRESENTATIVE] to OPPOSE the following bills: -Bill C-2 -Bill C-12 -Bill C-8 -Bill C-9 -Bill S-209 [You can either use the infographic to discuss issues with individual bills, or use the following more broad statement] All 5 of these bills are completely untenable. As a whole, they would make Canada into a police state, and I believe that is a result that must be opposed at every level. They weaken Canadian's security while also reducing our privacy under greater surveillance. They also target some of the most vulnerable among us, immigrants and people seeking asylum from other nations, which I believe goes against Canada's strong identity as a mixing pot of cultures. And these bills also target citizen's right to protest in a manner that I find inexcusable, especially in the current political climate. There are real problems affecting Canadians, and these bills do not address those. Once again, I implore you to oppose these bills.

also if you want to send emails or letters but would like some kind of basic script to use as a jumping off point, here's one i put together real quick. personalize it to whatever degree feels right for you!

Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving

wild considering most sex workers I know have had at least one of their accounts yeeted for the crime of existing

"Worryingly, this area of common cause now appears to be growing. We at GAATW have noticed that many organisations from both camps have recently expanded their use of anti-trafficking frameworks to also advocate for the abolition of surrogacy and promote transphobic ideas."

We need to keep it up, on all fronts, this is the core season of the paypros, we just need to keep the pressure up

Keep calling!

Payment processors REALLY hate this one weird trick!

#SaveSpeech

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Sure! Mastercard, Visa, Stripe + Paypal are further restricting what kinds of perfectly legal adult content you can buy through their processor (they cracked down on itchio and steam over the summer, not to mention Patreon a few years ago). We're tired of them acting like dictators instead of tools.

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Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season

The lines are getting clogged from calls and Mastercard is feeling very pressured, they're looking into how to act in response. They're collecting information on callers to have a better understanding of who is calling in re the censorship issue

This call campaign is working. If youve been calling since mov 1st, youre a trooper! If you havent called yet, now is a fantastic time to do so! Please help us pressure paypros and push back against censorship!

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The call campaign is having an effect! The pressure right now is integral, if you are making calls, PLEASE KEEP CALLING. If you havent called yet or took a break, now is a GREAT time to hop on and add to the pressure!