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3GGG66 days ago (2 edits) (+19)

This was never about "unacceptable" games. The reason these payment processors are targeting NSFW games, is so they can get their foot in the door of controlling what you do with your money. To get comfortable with the idea that the money you worked for aren't actually yours. If this goes unpunished and uncorrected, it will reach the point of controlling how much meat you buy, because it's "bad" for the environment. Or controlling your movement, or anything really that they deem fit with the blessing of the government. If they pull back, they will present the compromise of needing you to show your face or ID to login on the internet, basically filing you from what you watch, what you share, what you post, everything. Basically, like in China, but with the illusion that this is in any shape or form democratic. "YOU WILL OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY." This wasn't a suggestion. In the US there is some kind of bill to shackle these payment processors from dictating what people do with their own money. I have no idea about what Europe would be able to do, cause they are pretty much in favor of this control. They fucked up so royally that they are deathly afraid of their own people talking online. I hate this fucking world.

And remember, NO FUCKING COMPROMISE. PULL YOUR MONEY OUT OF THE BANKS. LEAVE ONLY NECESSERY AMOUNTS.

distractedbytheview66 days ago (1 edit) (+7)(-1)

As a European, I tend to think we deal with monopolies pretty well here, actually. With regards to payment processors we have been asleep at the wheel for a long time though. There is some initiatives now, but I am not yet convinced they will work out.

Fuchsclown64 days ago(+1)

With monopolies? Yes. Our problem is that for us, the censorship comes straight from the government.

Evil Wolf65 days ago(+7)(-1)

do not blame too much the payment processors
their actions were started by a letter from a gaggle of authoritarian pearl clutchers called "Collective Shout" based in Australia

https://www.collectiveshout.org/our_team
https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-processors

so the payment processors pmuch responded the way they did because "oh shit the optics" and the worry of whether they could be held responsible over people accessing illegal content, as apparently one was clobbered over the head because a kid bought access to a porn site or something

distractedbytheview65 days ago

Does this mean the stuff getting banned is illegal in Australia? I hear they have odd rules when it comes to porn.

Evil Wolf64 days ago

i do not know,more likely the persons behind that mail took that angle because it would cause a response.
also they are quite disingenuous because they also praised "Cuties" a Netflix film that is pretty sexualising of minors

Fuchsclown64 days ago(+4)

No, absolutely blame the payment processors. You think these clowns are the first to write them about it? They (the pps) even tried to force only fans to ban porn a while back, but for whatever reason backed of in the end (somebody probably had a second look and saw how much they really were making in fees there).

You can also still by all kinds of nsfw stuff with your card, so it definitely aren't the optics they care about. Christ, nobody even considered Visa etc. to have an image before this, they were just an unobtrusive middleman.

cwwolf65 days ago(+2)

It's a foot in the door with a "moral" crusade, and porn is the low hanging fruit. The tried this a few years to curtail U.S. citizen's second amendment rights. Texas and Florida put a stop to that, but I doubt governors and state legislators will put their reputations on the line for this.