If the current situation is frustrating/distressing to you as well, here's a place to collect information to help fight against it.

Petitions

• Petition on change.org
• ACLU petition

Other Links

• BlueSky post about contacting Stripe regarding censorship
• BlueSky thread of information about the censorship situation and what to do about it

Everything happening right now is upsetting, from the way that itch has handled it to the fact that it has affected queer stories and plenty of other content as well. If you want to fix this problem, you need to start at the source. The people responsible for this problem WANT you to spend your time and anger directed at anything other than themselves, so that less of it is pointed at them.

If anyone has other links, sites, or resources for confronting the problem at hand, please share them here. What I've found so far has been collected from my scrolling on here and on BlueSky. Please do not argue or debate in this thread; I want it to be resources and discussion on finding a way to get this mess fixed ASAP.

Also if you live in the UK you should this to help repeal the Online Safety Act and also contact your MP!

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903

https://www.parliament.uk/get-involved/contact-an-mp-or-lord/contact-your-mp/

Great job everyone! That's the stuff we need to do: gathering and sharing infos on the matter. I was about to share the link to that reddit post about information about payment processors, but you alredy found it (that guy seems to know his stuff)

Have you seen this one?

https://stopcollectiveshout.com/

It came from this reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1mawk6u/payment_processors_are_forcing...

This site really gathers all the thoughts i expressed lately on itch, both about the problems and both about how to fight back, with all related resources.

Since chats can be ephimeral in any social, this is the first 100% dedicated site i saw, an excellent reference point that i feel everyone should be aware about

EU member countries may try to seek to apply regulation of dominant market force.

In the EU, a dominant market position itself isn't illegal, but abusing that position to discriminate or stifle competition is prohibited. Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) specifically prohibits companies with a dominant market position from engaging in abusive practices. 

Price discrimination: Charging different prices to different customers for the same product without a valid justification

in Czech Republic the relevant agency for processing such complaint is UOHS.cz

twitch should be able to use this to fine stripe and legally enforce them to back out.

also in EU there is https://commission.europa.eu/about/organisation/college-commissioners/michael-mc... who oversees consumer protection which should include the doinant market force regulations.

We should try to get him involved in this.

About the site i mentioned some time ago: i don't know the specific reason, but the site migrated into another domain:

https://stopcensorship.net/

My two cents is that it's way more accurate to talk about stopping censorship, rather than Collective Shout, since those fanatics are pawns and scapegoats for the actual culprit of censorship.

I also noticed that this site keeps improving and updating as we speak, it's really worthy to check it out periodically