TabiCat623

Text of the first amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America

The First Amendment does not request permission — it affirms a right. To silence speech is to trespass against the Republic itself.

when you make your calls today, continue to hammer that trans healthcare cannot be thrown under the bus for the sake of business as usual, and that KOSA must be opposed

however, additionally, if your senator voted against the funding plan, I think you should tell them "thank you".

look up why Erikkka Kirk isn’t allowed in Romania.

in 2008 Erika Kirk, then known as Erika Frantzve, was involved with an org in Romania called “Children’s Relief International” that was allegedly trafficking children.

Great thread

While I don't dabble in non-con myself, I do enjoy "violent" depictions of sex, and I often fear that I'm crossing some arbitrary line unless I inject some affirmation.

Policies like these just don't help. Media literacy is dead and I don't trust tech companies to have any.

Dude talking to wall meme

how I feel trying to explain to normies why nsfw ban and censorship is bad and why they should care

SEX POSITIVITY MEME

The impulse to say that erotica CAN'T say anything of value, that porn MUST be mindless indulgence, is an extension of this problem by the way.

Sex and kink are just parts of life. Art that explores both primarily can touch on other subjects meaningfully as well. Stop trying to silo everything.

Unlikely as it is to pass, I think maybe it'd be good to scream at your representative that you don't want people who view pornography to be on a sex offenders registry

plz keep calling them I know it feels good or whatever to be like "this is a bigger problem at the top!!!!" but you hafta start at the avenues you can actually do something about. keep calling until no news outlet can ignore this or brush it aside as over. write letters if you must

If youre aghast at how even the adult website paypros ban things as benign as "cat ears", this is what we mean when we say that puritan policies DO NOT care to stop at just the "nasty" stuff

When they say they target "beastiality", they mean up to and including an actual human being wearing catears

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

This is why me, and many other folks, have been sharing information on how/why you should be contacting your local reps about this stuff and filing complaints against said companies.
If you haven't done so, now is the time.
stop-paypros.neocities.org#contactinfo
yellat.money

A poster with an image of a woman in a black balaclava holding a tire tool with the text “The government is abducting your neighbours are you going to let them?”

Seen out and about in Chicago.

A hoard of people march in the streets with protest signs. Even in heels, I am too short to properly show the massive scale of the crowd.

The streets of Chicago are full with tens of thousands of people standing up to ICE and Trump.

Join us.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is

- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals

it needs to be stopped, post haste

Not only is this stupid given it's asking people with 20+ year old accounts to verify, but the verification doesn't even fucking work. I literally have my credit card on Steam and it still doesn't verify me each time I try. Clown ass government ruining everything as per usual.

If you're in the states, the Better Business Bureau is your friend

Dino nuggets and squirrel bussy, dinner of champions.

a person is holding a piece of paper with the word spadder on it ALT: a person is holding a piece of paper with the word spadder on it

LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR MASTERCARD’S CEO

STEP 1: CALL +1 914 249 2000
STEP 2: TYPE 0
STEP 3: TYPE 6432224#
STEP 4: TYPE 1

Congratulations, and have fun calling the executive who matters most in this Steam / itchio censorship situation

YouTube video by Lextorias The Secret War To Censor The Internet

Copying my tweet here too in case ppl are interested to know

The Tumblr purge
The Patreon purge
The Gumroad and Pixiv purge,
The Onlyfans failed purge
The shitty rules on Fansly
The purge on steam and Itchio

It's all cause of the ppl on ExodusCry

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHH...

LMAO I called Visa’s customer support service - the guy on the other line was like “are you ALSO calling about the video game payment processing? Please send us emails instead.”

Keep up the calls, folks, we’re definitely gumming up their works

How it must feel rn...

In all seriousness keep it up!
If they ask you to e-mail instead, don't stop calling!
If they hang up on you, don't stop calling!
If they assured you that the issue's been addressed already, don't stop calling!

Be polite! Be stern! Be annoying!
#SaveSpeech

Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io Payment platforms demand services remove NSFW content after open letter from Australian anti-porn group Collective Shout, triggering accusations of censorship

The backlash to payment processor censorship is beyond anything we've seen with adult. Over 150,000 have signed a petition to block payment processors and even Elon Musk, no champion of free speech, has criticized the attempts to censor legal content

Phone Numbers Stripe (Headquarters): +1 (888) 963-8955 Stripe (US): +1 (877) 887-7815 Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67 Mastercard (Headquarters): +1 914-249-2000 Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-627-8372 Mastercard (US): +1 (800)-307-7309 Mastercard (Int.): +1 (636)-722-7111 Mastercard (AUS): +61 1800 120 113 Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767 Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3200 Visa (US + Can): +1 (800)-847-2911 Visa (AUS): +61 1800 125 440 All region numbers for Visa PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161 PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000 PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

It’s time for our own collective shout. Who are you calling?

Remember: Stress you’re a repeat caller on this issue and that you heard about this controversy on the news. With Visa, ask for a supervisor once you hit a dead end. Calls should always last longer than 30 seconds

yellat.money

Cartoon monster lady, Sue, in a "Don't Stop Calling T-shirt, pointing at a personification of "puritan activist groups" looming over a personification of "payment processor" Sue's Dialogue: YOOHOO! These motherfuckers think they can pick and choose what you do with your own money. You wouldn't let them do that, would you?

Hey if you hate censorship and want to do more than just doompost online, you can actually do something: Being annoying!

Hoards of people have been blowing up the phones of payment processing companies to pressure them not to bend to the whims of puritan groups.

stop-paypros.neocities.org

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

This itch.io NSFW policy change is unfortunately nothing new, the problem isn't the platforms themselves but rather Visa/MC strong-arming these services into revising their NSFW policies.
So if you're eligible I invite you to sign this ACLU petition: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

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?

Digital graphic with the text "anti-censorship campaign" and screenshots of headlines about how multiple storefronts have removed NSFW content due to pressure from payment processors and Collective Shout.

I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones

Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign

But we can EASILY top 1,000!

I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!

↻💬♡ to boost

We CAN make a difference 💕

#itch #censorship

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Driving the news: The AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act is rolling out after a hearing where Hawley accused companies including Meta and OpenAI of pirating vast droves of protected works. It would: Bar AI companies from training on copyrighted works. Allow people to sue to sue for use of their personal data or copyrighted works without giving consent. Require companies to disclose which third parties will be given access to data if consent is given. Provide for financial penalties and injunctive relief as remedies. What they're saying: "AI companies are robbing the American people blind while leaving artists, writers, and other creators with zero recourse," Hawley said in a statement. "It's time for Congress to give the American worker their day in court to protect their personal data and creative works." Blumenthal: "Tech companies must be held accountable—and liable legally—when they breach consumer privacy, collecting, monetizing or sharing personal information without express consent."

⭐ [US] Bipartisan bill S.1993 was introduced to protect artists and limit generative AI training.

If you want to ask your senator to cosponsor, here's a link to the text of the bill:
www.congress.gov/bill/118th-c...