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ErrorStack90 days ago(+55)

I've been particularly mad about payment processors doing this shit for ages now and nobody really listened until it finally happened.

A while back, Toffer Team did a crowdfunding campaing for their Lip Lewd Idol visual novel series. They racked up 23k and PayPal froze the account and stole all their crowdfunding money.

I said even back then that this kind of behavior was an attempt to normalize censorship and now its happening. I'm just as furious about whats happening as you are, if not more so.

Visa and Mastercard are a duopoly that actively collude with eachother and I can't for the life of me understand why they havent been forcefully broken up by the government.

I'm not american, but if you are, contact your representatives. Theres a bill in the US right now being worked on specifically to make it illegal for Visa and Mastercard to decide what you do with your money.

blahblahdo1290 days ago(+25)

Wonderful message, to bad the us has the absolute wrong fuckin goverment for this

Jatopian90 days ago(+14)

The bills ErrorStack is referring to (actually two bills, H.R.987 and S.401) were introduced by two Republicans, the party you may notice control the government at the moment. So I would say it is potentially the right fuckin government, actually!

Payment processors overstepping their bounds is a bipartisan issue! Conservatives have been the target of it before! Making them politically neutral utilities is something we can all get behind, and you should contact your representatives in support of the "Fair Access to Banking Act" if you are a US citizen.

ErrorStack89 days ago(+5)

there was also an earlier bill in 2023 that was introduced and never went anywhere.

You're right about the issue being bipartisan

brunoais89 days ago(+2)

The issue is non-partisan. Doesn't matter about political parties. This is an attach on the people.

SprintingCucumber89 days ago(+1)

These bills are intended to protect gun dealers and crypto laundering from bank oversight, but protecting free speech would be a great collateral benefit.

Buddisvata90 days ago(+25)

Nothing will get done to favor the consumer under the Trump regime.

Jatopian90 days ago(+7)

The bills ErrorStack is referring to (actually two bills, H.R.987 and S.401) were introduced by two Republicans. Payment processors overstepping their bounds is a bipartisan issue! Conservatives have been the target of it before! Making them politically neutral utilities is something we can all get behind, and you should contact your representatives in support of the "Fair Access to Banking Act"

if you are a US citizen.

What that means for you personally is that your unproductive doomerism isn't even based on facts. Next time you make a post, ask yourself if it's indistinguishable from what a propagandist would say if they were trying to demoralize people into doing nothing. And if it is, don't say it.

red90 days ago(+8)

while i understand the sentiment, this was happening before him as well. DLsite and OnlyFans both got hit with this sort of thing in 2021. the issues systemic in that credit card companies and payment processors shouldn't be able to tell grown adults what they can and can't do with their money.

devbi118389 days ago

This current bout started in Australia, and it’s been going on in general since payment processors lost the Mindgeek lawsuit.

DupDropper90 days ago(+3)

That's simple. The government has always wanted to ban shit they don't control and doing so through the government is hard because of free speech laws. Furthermore, seeing how the government is likely involved with human trafficking and sex slavery, anything that has sex in it is likely an important target for them.

This might seem farfetched but in my experience sexual predators engage in projection to hide their guilt and seeing how the "feminist group" is completely fine with "Cuties" then I have my suspicions that they are just a manufactured excuse for credit card companies to ban shit.

untemperance89 days ago(+6)

Indeed; the feminist group follows many reactionary conservatives on their Twitter account, such as Liz Wheeler, Charlie Kirk and Elon Musk's political party, all people that have been incredibly misogynistic by the past. The only feminists they follow are people like JK Rowling, who are only feminists by a very charitable and liberal definition of the term. They are a feminist group in name only. They are reactionary conservative censorship advocates, presumably Christian.