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Censorship is now coming for your dnd and your warhammer and your farming sim, they don't care if it's not adult content. They wanted everything

"The PC should be able to act on your behalf."
Absolutely fuck off with that bullshit. Take that wretched thought and shove it so deeply up your own ass a team of highly trained surgeons can never retrieve it. Why would I want my pc acting on hallucinations?

This means if you're in the UK and haven't signed this yet, please do. At 100k signatures they have to discuss it again.

Literally the least you can do!!

our government sucks so much
"we're not allowed to buy legal products and services"
"good ^^ a healthy economy is when you can't buy things"

So fucking sick of this Bullshit. Its constant, from all angles and everywhere. It's exhausting waking up to find yet another site succumbing to fascist censorship. The Internet is rapidly becoming such a hostile place and bluesky was free from that mostly. Well not after the 15th

I'm getting really fed up with how shit the backwards compatibility is on the Switch 2. Half of the switch 1 games I bought on Switch 2 suffer from random crashes, and it's so tiring. Why list them as compatible if they're all plagued with these issues. Simply won't buy any more. You can't trust it.

The government has today (8 September) announced urgent action to toughen the Online Safety Act by putting stricter legal requirements on tech companies to hunt down and remove material that encourages or assists serious self-harm, before it can destroy lives and tear families apart. While platforms already have to take specific steps to protect children from this dangerous self-harm content, the government recognises that adults battling mental health challenges are equally at risk from exposure to material that could trigger a mental health crisis or worse.

UK Government announcement of additional Online Safety Act regulations, not yet published www.gov.uk/government/n...

Note the direction of travel: OSA requirements that currently oblige platforms to proactively "protect" children from content will be extended to protect adults.

ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧

The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products!

This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word!

The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

This sums up this payment NSFW fiasco pretty well.

“After all, the initiative outright says that the danger of pornography is that it acts as a vector for the ‘transgender ideology.’”

If anyone needed evidence that their end goal is the erasure of queer visibility, and possibly even our existence itself, here it is. This is an existential threat.

We really need an equivalent of common carrier laws for all infrastructure. Payment processors should be obligated to process all legal transactions. They shouldn't have any more say in it than my electric company can decide what I'm allowed to plug in.

It would be REALLY funny if Visa suddenly got tips from thousands of people reporting every store that has ever carried an official Star Wars movie.

Those are just jam-packed with 'non-consentual mutilation of a person or body part', which is apparently against the rules to distribute.

Fuck censorship. They're coming after you next, whether you make porn or not. I have never sold NSFW services or artwork, yet here's my termination from Stripe! Fully SFW, innocent headshots of furries = adult content. This is what we've been trying to fucking tell y'all this whole month!

"For selected products only, there's Mastercard."

Hey, remember to keep pressuring Paypal too

It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices Plans to abolish Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act could have dire consequences for games.

Collective shout is a convenient scapegoat. The current administration’s considering this one of their objectives to abolish section 230 of the online communication decency act.

The section that absolves websites and online programs of being held responsible for user content.

More of project2025.

Holy crap!

There's an ACTUAL NUMBER for PayPal in this!

PayPal is NOTORIOUS for never giving out numbers!!! This is pure gold!

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort.

It aired in 1990.

From an Ofcom guidance: Business disruption measures 9.4 9.5 9.6 Business disruption measures are orders made by a court on an application from Ofcom. They apply to third parties which are able to disrupt the provision of the regulated service and thereby reduce the risk of harm to UK citizens and consumers. The third party need not be an Ofcom regulated entity and may not have had any previous dealings with Ofcom. The Act provides for four types of business disruption measure: a) a service restriction order; b) an interim service restriction order; c) an access restriction order; and d) an interim access restriction order. A service restriction order is an order applying to one or more providers of 'ancillary services' to a non-compliant regulated service. An ancillary service is a service that facilitates the provision of the regulated service (or part of it) (for example, payment processing services) or one that displays or promotes content in relation to the regulated service (for example an ad server). 110 The criteria with which a court must be satisfied to grant an application for an order are set out in section 144(3) and (4) of the Act and include that the court must be satisfied that the service provider has failed and is continuing to fail with an enforceable requirement or with a Technology Notice under section 121(1) of the Act. 111 A service restriction order requires the ancillary service against which an order is obtained to take steps aimed at disrupting the relevant regulated service in the UK...

Ofcom says that if you refuse to censor yourself under the Online Safety Act, it will force payment processors and ISPs to stop doing business with you.

When the government can't shut you up, the banks and credit cards will.

Absolutely terrifying.

www.ofcom.org.uk/siteassets/r...

I cannot describe how fucking happy it makes me seeing journalists just pointing out that they're lying. Once again, if you're calling, bringing up these articles as why you're calling is a VERY good idea.

Why are they lying? Why are they refusing to process legal transactions?

#SaveSpeech

its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as well!

PHASE 2: START MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS

imgur: imgur.com/a/3pVupWQ

more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

This doesn’t mean to stop calling by the way. The execs in those meetings are shifting the levers back ever so slightly so they can see where it is we’ll stop calling.

Don’t stop calling.

Hypno themed headshot icon of my fursona - a tiger with grey fur and stripes. His tongue is hanging out and his expression is dopey. His eyes are replaced with rainbow spirals indicating he has been hypnotised. The background consists of a rainbow coloured spiral.

A headshot icon of my sona on a plain background. My sona is a tiger with grey fur and stripes. He's wearing a red collar.

Full-body artwork of my sona wearing a black latex suit with a blue harness over it. There is a light blue abstract background.

Artwork of my sona kneeling in a begging pose whilst leashed and wearing a pup hood. My sona is a tiger with grey fur and stripes. His tongue is poking out of the front of the pup mask, along with a single fang. Background is an abstract light blue gradient.

Celebrating International tiger day with this collection of art of my sona by the amazing @thatlionthing.bsky.social

WHY? On July 2025, Steam, a popular storefront to purchase games on PC, and itch.io, a storefront that sells games, comics, tools, resources and much more, have recently delisted several NSFW games, after the group Collective Shout published an open letter to payment processors such as Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and more. As a result of this letter, payment processors have strongarmed Valve and itch.io into enforcing restrictive new TOS policies on what kind of content their platforms can host and sell. Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal have been censoring free speech and legal business on the internet for TOO LONG. Their most recent targets are Steam and Itch.io, but they have also been pressuring websites like Pixiv, Patreon, Fansly, Onlyfans and MORE for years, applying draconian standards for what kind of adult/pornographic content platiorms and their users can host and sell. If we as consumers and creators want to regain ground on this issue, we have to make our voice heard. HOW? BOMBARD THEM WITH PHONE CALLS Collective Shout, the organization that lobbied to have Steam and Itch.io change their TOS, did so with only around 1000 phone calls. Visa and MC have backed down from pressuring Onlyians to remove adult content entirely due to public backlash. Clogging their phone lines for an extended perlou, over a mont at the absolute least, will almost gudrantee that these compantes will at least have to pay attention to the backlash. this list is not exhaustive. but some contact points for the 4 targets are: 1. VISA: (US + Can): +1 [8001-847-2911 US option selection for operator: 1-1-2 or 1-1-3 2. MASTERCARD: (US): +1 (8001-307-7309 US option selection for operator: 1-1-2-2-2-1 Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111 3. STRIPE: (Headquarters): +118881 963-8955 (France): +33 805-11-19-67 Stripe: complaints@stripe.com 4. PAYPAL: (US): +1 (888)-221-1161 (outside US): 1-402-935-2050 Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

Cheat Sheet v.2

nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information

imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i

more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

MAKE YOUR CALLS!!!

You can also call, seems to work the best.

Here is a post with numbers, that can help.
(I called too, had to!)

bsky.app/profile/iant...

Message from a user called BBBen on discord: Collective Shout, who have been provoking this latest wave of trouble are registered as a charity in Australia, but their work seems to be purely as a political activist organisation generating moral panic. This is against the rules for registering as a charity. If any Australians (Aussies only, please! It's counter-productive for people from elsewhere to do this) want to register a concern about their wrongful listing as a charity, then you can do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website. Here's the relevant links. Collective shout's profile, including their ABN: https://www.acnc.gov.au/charity/charities/8f14b7df-39af-e811-a963-000d3ad24077/profile Raise a concern with the ACNC: https://www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern You can also attach evidence, which would probably help, though any concern is a valid one to post. Just explain the situation and try to call attention to the fact that political lobbying is not charitable work. You can go into other relevant details if you wish. All of this only takes a minute.

Action for Australian folks:

register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity, do so on the Australian Charity and Non-Profit Commission website

Collective shout's profile + ABN: www.acnc.gov.au/charity/char...

Raise a concern with the ACNC: www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern

Consume Me just got delisted in a wave of delistings on itchio. It's a semi-autographical game about disordered eating. It won the grand prize at the most recent IGF awards.

When storefronts start mass bannings, everything is threatened.

I wish we had gotten some warning from Steam and Itch... but we already know it's Collective Shout + payment processors waging culture war against LGBTQ people and sexual expression. I guess there's nothing else for Steam and Itch to say