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Something we discovered during our fruitful zap session today- I've added it to the initiative page.

cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

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Floor fox. 🪄

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A latex-clad pet kneeling in front of their master and excitedly wagging their tail. The master is holding a phone in front of the pet's face, with the screen displaying a phone call. Dialogue: Master: You wanna be a good pet for me? Pet: *whine* Master: Listen up, then. I'll call your reps, and when I remove your muzzle, you'll use your human words to tell them how much you hate the SCREEN and KOSA acts. Think you can do this for me? Pet: Awwa! <3 Master: That's a good pet. You're gonna get such a big treat. And if you'll want more, I'll have you call Visa and Mastercard next...

Silly little pet task. 🤍
www.congress.gov/members/find...
stop-paypros.neocities.org

Unlike paypros, most reps actually do see emails if they're about one thing. Title your email something like STOP KOSA AND SCREEN and that helps their helpers know instantly what you're about. Be as direct as possible.

I'm seeing less posts about the Visa and Mastercard situation and I want to make it plain as day. You need to keep calling and bothering them, and losing them money.

Because if we lose this, they are going to cut more and more from what's available until you can only buy what they approve of.

YouTube video by Loonbase Blueberry Sunshine - Act My Age

Rawrdcore Track of teh Day:
Blueberry Sunshine - Act My Age (2019)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKkd...

obscure expedition/personal journal of some doods breaking into Kowloon right before it was demolished. weirdly soulful w maybe the best web design ever, complete w lowres photos of kowloon that probably dont exist anywhere else

web.archive.org/web/20020208...

c:<

okay

The Itch/Steam thing dropped off the trending tab.

Therefore it's time to remind you again to swamp the payment processors with more calls.

If the call volume dies down in under a week they aren't going to learn their lesson. Make them regret it.

An bunny woman knight kneels at the edge of a battlefield. She is damaged and bloodied and stares at the worn sword she holds. Bodies surround her

what a fuckin time to get ur mind back

Sisk looks at a poster on the wall that says the true cost of porn addiction with a bullet list of reasons why porn is bad. Sisk says that the treatment facility i was mandated to attend in arizona wanted me to internalize the harms porn causes especially to women but before i could learn specifics i was thrown into prison for three years after I filed a complaint when my therapist openly accused me of lying about my sexual assault

"It's about protecting women."

I think a lot of people have forgotten or were never taught in the first place that these kinds of actions need to be an endurance strategy.

If they know you'll give up in 2 days they'll just try to wait you out.

You have to make them understand that this is their life now if they don't fix things

mommadog & i r inventing endurance boggle. new game

losing my shit after trying linux mint and even the steam deck's desktop mode, like with proton this shit just feels like windows but without the training weights.
its responsive, i can turn off w/e i dont like, updates arent terrifying & I CAN JUST SET WHATEVER IMAGE I WANT AS THE START BUTTON???

shows and games have such dog shit disability rep which is why characters like Hitch (my oc) exists

he has a cane for his fibromyalgia, and is bubbly and happy, even gets cute designs for his cane.

really wierd seeing people get upset about their furry art feed being overrun by posts abt the payment processor shit b4 theyll give even a hint of a fuck abt the artists, or even losing access to said art forever?? like bro my life is hard too id love to have my online reprieve too but well uh ukno

every step in the process is grim cowardice and capitulation to the lowest common denominator of society and it ends in a book burning, i’m not particularly interested in soothing egos of the poor folks who lit the match just because mastercard told them to

idk man getting all “don’t get mad at itch get mad at the payment processors” is fucking silly man, why get mad at the payment processors, they’re just doing what the fascists who bullied them want, why get mad at the fascists who bully them, they’re victims of the 24 hour news cycle or some shit

Hard to put it more plainly than Carta. Whether or not it's "for you", porn and sex work in general have been part of human society for as long as there has been society and they MUST be protected

Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?

We got like way more people than that don't we?

Showing off some hip 🌿

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You know what's happening. Remember they're going for everything. Yesterday it was steam, today it's itch. Do what you can to pressure mastercard to stop being assholes. Sign petitions, call representatives, whatever it takes.

5.12.7 Illegal or Brand-damaging Transactions A Merchant must not submit to its Acquirer, and a Customer must not submit to the Interchange System, any Transaction that is illegal, or in the sole discretion of the Corporation, may damage the goodwill of the Corporation or reflect negatively on the Marks. The Corporation considers any of the following activities to be in violation of this Rule: 1. The sale or offer of sale of a product or service other than in full compliance with law then applicable to the Acquirer, Issuer, Merchant, Cardholder, Cards, or the Corporation. 2. The sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value (such as, by way of example and not limitation, images of nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part, and bestiality), or any other material that the Corporation deems unacceptable to sell in connection with a Mark.

from the mastercard terms of service

did you know obscenity laws are basically the only type of law where it is impossible to know what is illegal until you are actually convicted?

this is the result of that

I've already emailed @itch.io support to tell them how I feel about all this. You all should, too. And while you're at it, sign the ACLU's petition to get Mastercard to change its terrible sex work policies.

action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

I’ve written about payment processor censorship in gaming + adult content for seven years now. I’ve never seen this many people paying attention to this issue. It blows me away

This itchio change is a tremendous blow. But people are paying attention. Please know you can organize on this & fight