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SCREEN ACT: -full age verification. (biometric scans, ID uploads, background checks) -Deeply unsafe for personal and data privacy. Security/data breaches are rampant, and uploading so much sensitive data to every single we site is just asking for mass ID theft. -id verification is much, much harder on small websites than larger ones, creating a chilling effect and stifling speech for anyone that isnt a massive corporation -draw comparison to UK's OSA [online safety act] and the backlash it is receiving

KOSA: -creates "duty of care,” meaning that tech companies and platform giants would be required to take steps to prevent potentially harmful encounters, such as posts about eating disorders and instances of online bullying, from impacting minors. -who gets to decide what is or is not "unsafe for minors"? Especially under the current administration -it will block access to important info minors could use to keep themselves safe or advocate for themselves. Ex: sex ed. -the vague nature of the bill will almost certainly be used to target LGBT content under the guise of "protecting children"

CONGRATS SOLDIER, we've hit 2 weeks of solid #SaveSpeech pressure! Youre doing a great job! Reward yourself!

And keep on calling/mailing!

stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

www.congress.gov/members/find...

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SCREEN ACT: -full age verification. (biometric scans, ID uploads, background checks) -Deeply unsafe for personal and data privacy. Security/data breaches are rampant, and uploading so much sensitive data to every single we site is just asking for mass ID theft. -id verification is much, much harder on small websites than larger ones, creating a chilling effect and stifling speech for anyone that isnt a massive corporation -draw comparison to UK's OSA [online safety act] and the backlash it is receiving

KOSA: -creates "duty of care,” meaning that tech companies and platform giants would be required to take steps to prevent potentially harmful encounters, such as posts about eating disorders and instances of online bullying, from impacting minors. -who gets to decide what is or is not "unsafe for minors"? Especially under the current administration -it will block access to important info minors could use to keep themselves safe or advocate for themselves. Ex: sex ed. -the vague nature of the bill will almost certainly be used to target LGBT content under the guise of "protecting children"

#SaveSpeech

Remember, if youre american, contact your reps and urge them not to support KOSA and the SCREEN act!

Unlike Pay-pros, you dont need to waste time. All they NEED is to know is that you dont support it. Heres some talking points if desired tho:

www.congress.gov/members/find...

#SaveSpeech
If youre struggling to figure out how best to maximize your impact in calls, i recommend watching at least the first 15 minutes of this video where Ana both uses a time wasting technique and then explains it

But TLDR; you need to Troll at this point. Wasting time is all that matters

Hey Americans, if this passes you'll be uploading your ID to every social media and website to access it.

just a reminder that while signing the petition is important, PLEASE don’t donate through change dot org 💀

donations through change pretty much never go to the petition creator, please donate through their own donation page instead
archive.org/donate

All three Canadians out here with me, don't let them win a fucking inch of ground.

Visa and Mastercard released their public statements on censorship!

Visa and Mastercard are pretending they don't make any judgments on legal purchases, but Collective Shout CLEARLY told us they successfully pressured payment processors.

KEEP CALLING! IT'S WORKING!

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Reminder that you need to do your part to help stop internet censorship; doesn’t matter if its only affecting people across the world, doesn’t matter if you think porn/kinks are gross

If internet censorship is allowed to fester, that means less privacy online for everyone. IT WILL AFFECT YOU.

An image of a huge jackboot crushing a comic artist and a bunch of comic pages. The boot is marked by the logos for MasterCard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe. Below the image there is text which reads: Don't let Payment Processors tell YOU what you can buy! It is not a payment processor's role to decide what kind of content you can or cannot spend money on, so long as it is a legal transaction. Fight back against the unjust policies hurting artists and creators online! https://yellat.money/ https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

Let's Keep Calling!

Stripe said verbatim that they don't support adult content so it is time to make them regret it

Why did thousands of adult titles just disappear from the biggest PC gaming marketplaces? Digital distribution platforms Steam and itch.io have tightened their rules about adult content – under pressure from payment processors. Why has this happened and where will it lead?

Steam and itch.io have removed thousands of video games in recent weeks deemed to be "adult content" in order to comply with strict rules from payment processors like Mastercard.

These policies censor artists engaged in lawful speech. Mastercard shouldn't be the gatekeepers of our digital freedom.

Fight back with your phone Organized, polite calls to payment processors like Mastercard and Stripe are creating pressure. Here’s how to join the effort—and why your voice matters.

I launched Uncensored Artists this weekend to support indie NSFW creators with info, advocacy, and action. The latest post breaks down why the phone campaign to Visa, Stripe, etc is working — and how you can help.

🖌️ Read and Subscribe: uncensoredartists.beehiiv.com/p/fight-back...

Artists & Creatives MUST be included in White House discussions on Generative A​​.I. Can you spare a minute to help this campaign?

Just want to boost this petition one more time. These things actually help organizers gain support in the gov. Please sign and share!

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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!!!

The Payment Processor Porn Fiasco The Payment Processor Porn Fiasco Extremely short version: Yes we should be pissed at Visa and the rest. But we really need to focus on eliminating the FOSTA-SESTA. Read on for info: Short version: ...

#visa #mastercard

Payment companies are part of the censorship problem. But the source is the FOSTA/SESTA bill that overrides protections used by websites and processors

I have a document with more info here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Video to listen instead: youtu.be/SmHHnPLllUk

Phone Numbers • 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 (Australia): +1 (800)-120-113 • Mastercard (UK): 0-800-96-4767 • Visa (Headquarters): +1 (650)-432-3208 • Visa (US + Can): +1 (808)-847-2911 • Visa (AUS): +1 (800)-125-440 • PayPal (US): +1 (888)-221-1161 • PayPal (UK): +44 (0203)-901-7000 • PayPal Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116 • Stripe (France): +33 805-11-19-67 Emails / Contact Forms • Visa Email: askvisa@visa.com • Mastercard's Email: customer_support@mastercard.com • Mastercard's Contact Us Page • Stripe: complaints@stripe.com • Stripe Complaint Submission Form • Mastercard's PR Team: Seth.Eisen@mastercard.com, William.Tsang@mastercard.com, and Jennifer.Erickson@mastercard.com NOTE: PLEASE BE CONSIDERATE WHEN DIRECTLY EMAILING INDIVIDUALS. We recommend using BCC when sending this out) credit to iantos.bsky.social, raikisuu.bsky.social, boscosden.bsky.social for a vast majority of the sourced public numbers and emails.

Good morning. Did you call your local censorious payment processor and let them know you’re upset with their bullying of Steam and itchio? No time better than the present

yellat.money

Now that the dust has settled a little - I wanted to show you the Gunz N' Puzzles tabletop fight, but as God intended (that being the music I would've used if copyright weren't a factor lol.) ((You can even tell which segment was animated and timed TO the song.)) #smg4 #smg4spoilers

KOSA is back. This is the internet censorship bill!

And it's not just coming for SWers, it'll be coming for all LGBTQ content, because the people in charge view LGBTQ people as inherently pornagraphic!

We must push back even harder than we did last time we killed this bill 🔥

It was never about child safety. It never is.

UK people, contact your MPs. Do not do the typical British thing and let this go without a fuss.

Big same

YouTube video by SMG4 SMG4 Movie: Guns N' Puzzles

I worked on a scene for Guns n' Puzzles!
Everyone did an amazing job with this movie!

Wont post due to spoilers, but i seriously want to thank
@starteas.bsky.social for drawing custom Mr Puzzles faces for it, wouldn't be as strong without them!

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

YouTube video by SMG4 SMG4 Movie: Guns N' Puzzles

EYYYYYY! Thanks for watching Gunz N' Puzzles Movie! My second SMG4 movie and I had the privilege of working on not one but TWO scenes (the Car scene and their little falling out fight)! Much like Silence of the Cats, everyone on the team absolutely KILLED IT! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCbC...

A digital illustration of Mr. WPNZ bridal carrying Mr. Puzzles from SMG4. Toon is above them, smiling with his eyes closed while The Death Cube stands ominously behind all three. Black text with a white outline reads thank you for watching!!! with a heart that says Evan + Wiz WizardWiz’ sona, a wizard in a purple hat and starteas’ sona, a sheep with pink hair are blurred in the foreground.

THANK YOU FOR WATCHING #SMG4: GUNZ 'N PUZZLES!!! 🔫📺💥

This was an absolute BLAST to work on, and I am incredibly grateful to have been given the opportunity to write on this movie!

Thank you so, so much for watching- and we hope you enjoy whatever comes next. 🫶
#smg4spoilers

credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think

I'm going to outline for you exactly how the christofacists win, because it's an obnoxiously simple strategy but a reliably powerful one. You know that post that's like "I don't trust y'all to eat the rich because you'll just target a bunch of doctors and actors and forget about the people who do the real damage?" That's our communal Achilles Heel. Here's the play: Collective Shout organizes a bunch of phone calls to payment processors demanding the elimination of NSFW/LGBT/ETC content. Payment processors go "oh, that's a lot of phone calls, we should do something" and then tell Steam and Itch to comply with those demands or be cut off from being able to do business. Then Steam and Itch have to make a decision between cutting off an arm and clamping down, or take a stand and shoot themselves in the head, functionally nuking their entire platform which, especially for Steam, have exponentially farther reaching ramifications.

Then our community gets mad at *them* and start calling them cowards and boot lickers and profess never to support them again. And like, yeah I get that getting mad at Itch is easy when you've got nothing to lose, but what the fuck with "I'll only support you, the comparatively small business with no real power as long as you can singlehandedly and successfully fight off the international might of the owners of theocratic capitalism with no further action from me?" like do people really not see the distance between creators and Itch (that's like, what? 30 people?) vs fucking Mastercard?? When the Goblin has Spider-man under his glider, we start throwing shit at him, we don't go "Damn, Spider-man, you said you'd save us. I guess you suck. Fuck you." So if you want to be more than a useful, reactionary pawn, I'm linking to a bunch of posts where smarter people than I are sharing payment processors phone numbers, scripts on how to talk to them, and other resources. If you do not pick up your phone and make that call you have *no* right to be mad at a company that has historically been pretty good about their support for creators and are likely trying to figure out how to weather this storm in real time.

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