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Source familiar with MasterCard‘s internal workings: The company finds the censorship focus from consumers “profoundly irritating“ amid larger political issues — they want the controversy around paypros censorship to quietly disappear

idk about yall but I'm REALLY good at being annoying 🥰 can't wait to pull out a list of 1000 different games and anime and go through each one individually with the poor innocent call worker on the line to find out what's "illegal" according to MasterCard

🚨‼️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

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

he deserves the most stylish outfits
#jarlaxle #forgottenrealms #legendofdrizzt #dnd

Northsky is a separate service running on the same protocol as Bluesky and Blacksky (the ATprotocol). This means open communication between our services, but different management!

You can keep your likes, follows, lists, blocks, etc... if you migrate to our service. And still talk with Bsky users.

❗ Quick reminder that age verification on Bluesky is fully client side!
Meaning you can easily get around it!

More on it here!
gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

#bluesky #age #verification #bypass

👇 Repost so people who need it will find this post! 👇

Text on a rainbow backdrop. To the right of the text is a graphic showing three stalls marked 'you', with arrows connecting them to the stylized logo of Conjured Ink. The text reads: We at Conjured Ink are working to provide a user-controlled "bazaar" that is censorship-resistant. That means for creatives, you'll be able to make customizable "market stalls" to share and sell your works. For buyers, you'll be able to support your favorite creators free from the stress of blanket bans.

Conjured Ink is a community of creatives, developers, and supporters building software, support structures, and curated documentation to make it easy for people who make things to be able to share it or sell it independently, without relying exclusively on large platforms.

If you’re feeling particularly sad or dysfunctional right now and you’re an American, it’s important to remember that the wheels are kind of coming off our society and to be kind to yourself. Your struggle w/ depression or anxiety may reflect the reality of the world we live in and dealing with that

I don't use ao3 but I've still donated to them every year for several now. It seems it's becoming increasingly important. ime pillowfort gets no engagement and is quite dead, but they also accept credit card payments. I think the places that do are on borrowed time and popularity draws sauron's eye

In the wake of the last few days news and the blood and suppression the GOP is calling for, you would think democrats would be thinking twice about section 230 and the tools they would be handing over with KOSA

I'm considering having a meeting with one of my local reps, face to face, about this issue. I saw folks do it in Seattle, so why can't I do it here? I would love if my local rep yelled at these companies with me.

r/Games 7 hr. ago Join DwingRD Valve no longer allows "Post-launch NSFW content" for games on Steam - outside of DLCS. I have looked through Steam's Terms of Service online, but have found no official rule or statement from Valve of this new rule - but one Adult game developer has confirmed this new rule after launching their game "Tales of Legendary Lust: Aphrodisia" a couple days ago. With the recent rule change blocking adult-themed games from releasing on Early Access, this new rule seems to be targeting Adult-themed games that have ALREADY released on Steam - and threatens them with their games being removed from Steam. There are currently 536 Adult-rated Early Access games on Steam - and this new rule may take them all down.

Concerning claim on r/Games

www.reddit.com/r/Games/comm...

#SaveSpeech

I'm going to be updating this infographic as soon as i can, but in the meantime, please add the following issues to your list of issues to call about. These all suck! demand action from your legislators!

www.congress.gov/members/find...
www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

e-6695 (Consumer protection) Keywords Censorship Credit cards Internet Pornography E-petition Initiated by Carmen Tam from Waterloo, Ontario Original language of petition: English Petition details Petition to the House of Commons Whereas: Mastercard, Visa, and other payment platforms have been leveraging their power over consumer ability to purchase legal content; In 2021, Mastercard changed its policies to regulate adult entertainment by preventing the use of its payment platform on numerous adult entertainment sites; As of July 2025, video game distribution service Steam now cites rule 15, that “adult only” content is not permitted on the platform if it goes against payment processor’s policies. Steam does not describe what content is defined as “adult only”; As of July 2025, video game distribution website Itch.io has “deindexed” all adult NSFW content from browse and search pages. Users that previously purchased legitimate video games cannot access games that have been removed; and This has set an unsettling precedent of corporate censorship, causing concern in video game development teams, including developers, voice actors, and artists in other creative fields as their livelihoods are in limbo. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the House of Commons to 1. Stop financial discrimination by payment platforms against legal goods and services; 2. Ensure transparency to consumers about content restrictions and the rationale behind them; and 3. Protect creators' rights to make legal adult content and ensure a fair appeals process for any penalized media.

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures.

This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech!

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

I've been making a genuine effort to use the term "fanworks" instead of "content"
I feel like it's important, with the rise of fandom fracturing into a "consumer demands" type of vibe instead of the old hobby enjoying and friendship vibe I am more used to

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net

TEXT: Them: a concerning number of lesbians like the idea of an evil woman exploiting them sexually. like a sinister lady just using them for her own pleasure without ever returning the favor or even being nice about it. Me: *attempting to conceal obvious boner* no yeah that sounds terrible and problematic

Lolth canonically values ambition and want for power above all else, even above loyalty to her, and regardless of gender. I'm under the impression her sexism is truly a control tactic, rather than a personal value, because she gives her favor to men that challenge her a nonzero amount of times.

She has more women as her chosen then men, but it's worth noting that she picks multiple woman at once so they're forced to fight for the position of her "main" chosen, and then forces the main one she picks to become apart of her.

So it's really a matter of what the ""goal"" for the chosen is!

Hello👋 sorry to bother you, found your post in the lolth tag.

Lolth canonically does have a men as her chosen. It's drizzt do'urden (he doesn't like this) + in the evermeet novels she canonically becomes enamoured with a male dark elf, Ka'Narlist, who functionally becomes her chosen and her lover.

Need a script?

Again: yellat.money has your back!!!

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

Sorry bluesky has become my "stay updated on the state of censorship horseshit" center rather than my fandom spot. Easier to stay in the loop here.

I don't know. It's super frustrating to me that this continues to happen. You're the one coming into a space that already had that content! You don't get to make demands about removing the content that was there! Like how dare you!!!

And then when adult content is removed, everyone goes. Wow that really sucks! Guess we will have to go make a new space, because fuck this place.
And then it repeats. Because they cannot grasp that the people they're advertising to are adults.

historically the way this has gone, and will continue to go, is that a site gets big off the back of adult creators. Advertisers see an audience they can shill to. Advertisers get disgusted that their product is by adult content, which was there first, and then advertisers push to have it removed

The irony of adult content bans to me and how often they're pushed by advertisers and payment processors is that it shows a complete disconnect towards the average consumer, especially within the spaces they're coming into and trying to push their advertisement onto.

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