Some mechanics and interactions could be more clearly explained, but it is a fun short game.
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Your idea of "really make a difference" is a measure that your own linked article calls "mostly symbolic"?
The Fair Access to Banking Act is a bill with neutral language that addresses a nonpartisan issue. The same language that protects """nazis""" also protects everyone else. That's about as good as you can ask for.
They have monopoly power (or rather, duopoly power) because banking and payment processing are so highly regulated that there is no reasonable possibility of standing up an alternative, let alone one resistant to the same pressures that lead to events like this. The regulatory moat is so wide that they're effectively a government arm. We don't let the electricity and water companies refuse service to people over "conscience" because they are utilities with a government-sanctioned monopoly or oligopoly - it's the same principle, a principle upheld by the courts many times. For that matter, there are many private businesses required to provide their services to all comers just because what they do is too important. And to be clear, we're not going to have a deregulated banking sector, because history has shown us how badly that can go.
I'm not in favor of the age verification measures or general attitudes you mention, but there is a difference between gating access and defunding. Alcohol is also age-gated, yet it remains legal for those of age.
I give this reply more for others reading it than for you. You went from "I have read the bill, which is why I’m pretty sure it won’t protect NSFW" to saying that it's not an issue with the bill. So I no longer believe your weird selective libertarianism thing is being put forth in good faith, and I might not respond in future.
Okay, you claim you've read the bill. What is the language in the bill that excludes NSFW media creators?
It does not surprise me that a conservative introduced a bill to protect conservative causes, and defended it with rhetoric that appeals to his conservative base, but that doesn't change what the bill actually says.
If you read the text of the bill, you should be aware that there is no language in it that limits it to protecting "conservative" causes. And if you'd bothered to look up Operation Chokepoint, you'd know that it also targeted NSFW content.
If you are holding out for a bill that only protects your rights and not the rights of people you disagree with, that's not going to happen.
Stop spreading FUD.
Let's be a little realistic, please. KYC and AML are not going away. Regulations and laws in general are here to stay.
What might be possible is to force payment processors to be neutral, so USA citizens should contact Congress.
If we're adding stuff for non-EU people, then for USA citizens it is important to contact Congress.
The petitions can't hurt, but for USA citizens the most important thing is to contact Congress.
This is pretty good, but to be honest, I'm probably going to cut out paragraphs 2 and 3. There have been several Congressmembers who have pitched a fit recently about people "playing videogames in their basement all day" and it's hard to find out if mine were among those. Gotta tailor the message to your audience, right?
That's great, but I should note that that tool is for the House of Representatives, and your OP is about the bill in the Senate. But that's okay because you should also contact your representatives about the House equivalent bill, HR 987, and you should mention that bill in your OP as well as S 401!
As for the original tool, sometimes you have to refresh the results page before it works.
It's a reaction to when the right was not in power and the financial system's lack of regulation was being weaponized against them. Operation Chokepoint and the like.
We've been thru several cycles of this now, where the people not in power at the moment get debanked and generally victimized. Sometimes after enough of that sort of thing, people manage to come together and agree that some things should be neutral ground and not battleground, and we get things like the USA's First Amendment. I hope this can be one such event.
For step 1 I'd like to link this handy official tool for finding your Congressmembers. Each member's entry should have a contact link included. https://www.congress.gov/members/find-your-member
It doesn't really matter what secret dark motivations may exist in the writer's head, because the actual words of the law will be interpreted by the courts and not the people who wrote it. The writers of the 14th Amendment of the USA Constitution probably weren't thinking about gay sex at the time, but that didn't prevent the outcome of Lawrence v. Texas.
There is also a version in the Senate which should also be mentioned. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/401
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.
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.
This is... okay. I'm not a big fan of the shifting camera messing me up on jumps, or the mixing of 2d Ame with 3d everything else.
While the collectibles and death count don't necessarily need to do anything, it would be nice to track them and let us know how we did.
Your download says 2020-1-26... but I think you meant 2021.