Lea's Sin Bin

🚨‼️As of yesterday KOSA is at 64 cosponsors with @vanhollen.senate.gov + @kim.senate.gov - who claim to support LGTBQ+ rights but are clearly okay with supporting legislation that’ll censor us off the internet- newly signed on.

You know what to do: www.stopkosa.com

KOSA is now in red alert priority.

Please contact your representatives, dem and gop alike, and demand they oppose KOSA

We need to turn out in numbers against this!

"Porn bans" ALWAYS lead to trans bans

Michigan bill seeks to lock up trans people for posting selfies.

I simply cannot stress it enough.

You cannot sit this out.

They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised.

Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.

as an anarchist it causes me physical pain to be a “call your senators” bitch but please call your senators

Hey. Seriously. I hate having to clang bells, but I'd really appreciated if you called your senator today to tell them to oppose this. I'm safer in Cali but just barely, and so many will suffer

So because I've been out of work for the better part of three weeks thanks to my health, my next paycheck is gonna be abysmal and I won't have enough for my bills.

My commissions are wide open, please, if you can spare even $10 for a headshot, that would help tons.
Thank you so much.

Just a reminder, banning porn doesn't just mean going after OnlyFans or Pornhub. It also means banning written erotica. Smutty voice audios. Video games with sexual content. Your favorite romantasy novels. Fetish photography. Erotic art.

It's never just about pornographic films.

It's happening. Please call your reps and yell about SCREEN, KOSA, and IODA

The fog of war is lifting

What we are learning is that these two parties are responsible for all of the censorship going on. Banks working with PayPal / Stripe, and card networks like MasterCard

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.

This bill would criminalize pornography by legally redefining what it means to be obscene.

Period. Full stop. No more porn legally. If you post porn whether free pics or paid vids. this affects you!

"But I don't share porn or look at porn or make anything pornographic so it won't affect me"

Until they decide something you DO make or consume is "obscene" and they go after that too. Namely literally ANY queer content... also, looking at you Entire Furry Fandom.

We should ALL be angry about this

A post on Twitter by the Gelbooru account that says: Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, Itch.io, and others to pull violent and adult video games from their platforms. They continue to remain silent on the reason WHY they enforced the restrictions on the companies. I surmise they are gagged from speaking through likely threat of regulatory pressure. May I introduce, Russ Vought, a co-writer for Project 2025, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, AND Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/images/cfpb_headshot-russell-vought_DA8Ama7.original.png This man has already publicly stated his desire to have pornographic content, violent video games, and other types of content "harmful to children", banned from the internet. This claim he makes is not based on unbiased scientific testing. In a two minute clip posted on YouTube by The Intercept the following transcript, highlighted in yellow, shows his intended starting point (start with children), and then he cuts himself off from explaining the next part of the plan, of violent video games, etc, as that route had failed twice already in the past few decades. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0noIS9lmR0Y https://imgur.com/CxpcUOs https://theintercept.com/2024/08/16/project-2025-russ-vought-porn-ban/ Now, as his position in the CFPB, he has ultimate authority over payment providers and banks, and he has likely been abusing this power to strong-arm changes in these privately owned businesses regarding content he specifically had shown his distaste and hatred towards previously. All clearly telegraphed before hand, many years ago.

Continuing the tweet by the Gelbooru account: This was ALL done in the guise of protecting the children. Admittedly, it is a very solid tactic, at the core. But, if you use the mantra of protecting the children, it tends to mean that it's just a ploy, usually to further a specific agenda. They are a threat against the United States, nay, the entire world. They are a threat against our democracy, a threat against free speech, and a threat against gamers, a threat against media in general. These are the same people who believe violent video games cause violent things. An entire generation of individuals have been playing Grand Theft Auto, playing Doom, Quake, and other games, but we are not currently, nor will we face a worldwide pandemic of armed car robberies, driving on sidewalks for the fun of it, or people running around with sawed off shotguns killing demons, or raping people, because a video game was made exploring the content. Those in power have been eroding free speech in the law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides immunity to online platforms from liability for content posted by their users. They are actively attempting to kill this protection to further their goals outlined in Project 2025, by passing liabilities of their userbase onto the operators via financial regulation threats and pressure, thus killing speech directly, while still keeping in the shadows publicly. "He filmed the crimes and posted monetized rape videos on P*rnhub, earning revenue for him and the site owners." https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1898747162306937184 This is their attempt to kill section 230 immunity. You should not be frightened that they MAY come into power, they are ALREADY IN POWER. They are exercising it spectacularly, taking baby steps to erode away your speech, and we've all been asleep at the wheel.

The recent wave of restrictions of pornography (including kink / fetish stuff) in art, games, videos, etc. by payment processors and puritan groups runs to the political sphere at top. This recent censorship is a part of Project 2025, as it turns out. It's no conspiracy. THEY WANT TO CENSOR US!

RFK Jr’s health department to halt $500m in mRNA vaccine research Agency to end 22 federal contracts, questioning safety of technology credited with helping end Covid pandemic

Hey, so, TOTALLY not suggesting that RFK Jr. BACKS DOWN when we PUSH BACK, BUT if you’d like to call…

HHS Toll-Free: 1-877-696-6775

HHS Direct Line: 202-690-7000

PLEASE share and consider calling your senators and representatives as well.

NONE of this is okay.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

Stop KOSA KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

KOSA has been reintroduced.

This is almost assuredly intentional, as anyone involved with the NSFW space is likely already focused on the Payment Processor situation.
If you have the time, and can do more than spread this message, go here to fill this out:
www.stopkosa.com

Stop KOSA KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!

Found a petition - get on it
www.stopkosa.com

Ok I just called Visa since that's my card issuer.

1. Played dumb with frontline customer support ("why can't I buy my friends game on Steam / Itch"). They tried to dump me to email but I escalated to a supervisor.

2. Played smart with the supervisor, and caught them in a lie... 👇

Cartoon with corporate media asking U.S. Government how it would like "Control of Internet Speech" wrapped: Anti-terrorism or protect kids

t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.

MasterCard • 914.249.2000 (Global Headquarters, US) • 636.722.6100 (Operaction Center, US) • 971.4.391.4200 (Dubai HQ) • 305.539.2300 (Latin America HQ) • 914.249.6518 (North America HQ) • 1-800-627-8372 (US Only) • 1800-120-113 (Australia) • +1-636-722-7111 (International) • customer_support@mastercard.com • List of executives' Linkedin profiles

Visa • +1 650 432 3200 (Headquarters, US) • 1-800-847-2911 (US + Canada) • List of phone numbers by region • 1-888-289-9322 (Confidential Compliance Hotline) • askvisa@visa.com

PayPal Unfortunately, PayPal doesn't have any e-mail address, as it uses its website's customer support. You will need to log in to your PayPal account if you wish to access Customer Support lines or messages. Here's a few lines we found so far : • 1-402-935-2050 (US + Canada)

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social Follow the number below doesnt work, as Stripe has changed their number, and is demanding a $2.99 fee to even tell you what it is. however, this number DOES still work and will let you leave a message: (877) 887-7815

Welcome to the weekend! You made it sailor. Which censorious payment processor would you like to call first? Thanks to my moot @dieselbrain.bsky.social for the Stripe number, can confirm it works

stop-paypros.neocities.org

I feel like when an apocalyptic bill get shot down due to public outcry they shouldn't be allowed to just wait & run it through again, not once, let alone 12 times or whatever it is now

Literally none of the time you spent calling Visa/MasterCard this week will matter if this shit passes

Yes it's exhausting to have more calls to make

But this *is* life or death

Censorship is the first stage of removing marginalized people from public life, and then from life itself

Go and sign

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

Heres a web page with some consolidated info/scripts/phone numbers etc made by @cereza.zone to help folks who dont know where to start when it comes to calling/emailing payment processors.

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Hey there! I've got a thread + a doc with all this info!

The doc also has a social media post template for those that wanna publicly @ the payment processors (tho they're not on bsky only other socials hence why not in the thread)

bsky.app/profile/void...

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Guys I need you all to be so brave and make calls and send emails. I will post numbers and contacts once I know them and am not working SDCC but I will take any post with good info and share if you've got it.

Please also contact your reps about this. Tell them that corporations are infringing on your right to purchase art and it is affecting your free speech. If your rep is republican, emphasize how it is censorship and "anti-american".