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actions you can take instead of complaining.

A topic by Hieroglyphics87 created 24 days ago Views: 552 Replies: 4
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Hello aside from complaining I encourage everyone to send protest e-mails to these payment processing companies and flood their inboxes, but most of all send a message to the DOJ (Department Of Justice) in anti-trust law section. type your thoughts and then put it into chatGPT and ask it to write a professional letter based on your thoughts and complaints and add the correct character limit, or no character limit by e-mail and then send. Hope this helps! If collective karens can flood inboxes to force these companies to bend the knee then so can we. Please share in discord servers, and your friends.

Visa Inc.

https://investor.visa.com/corporate-governance/contact-the-board/default.aspx#em...

Phone: 1-800-847-2911 OR +1-303-967-1096 (international)

Mail: c/o the Chairman, CEO, General Counsel or Corporate Secretary, P.O. Box 8999, San Francisco, CA 94128

businessconduct@visa.com

globalmedia@visa.com

Mastercard Inc.

https://b2b.mastercard.com/contact-us/

Corporate Office: 914-249-2000

Operations Center in Missouri: 636-722-6100

investor.relations@mastercard.com

PayPal Holdings, Inc.

https://x.com/AskPayPal

Phone: 1-888-221-1161

Mail: PayPal Headquarters, 2211 North First Street, San Jose, California 95131

EEOMALegalSpecialist@paypal.com <---HERE!!

executiveescalations@paypal.com

(!!)Most importantly(!!), those in the USA should consider contacting their Congressmen (phone or email) and tell them you want to support these bills:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/401

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/987

I would urge them to support it, and even urge them to strengthen the wording of it to put more restrictions on credit card companies, not just banks. ( How to find your congressman[www.congress.gov] )

Then, I think those in the USA should contact the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and file a complaint. Doing this next is good, as its the most consumer focused:

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/

Phone: 1-855-411-2372

Mail: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 1700 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20552

Following that, submit a detailed complaint detailing the issues to the DOJ’s Antitrust Division or FTC:

Department of Justice – Antitrust Division

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/complaint/ https://www.justice.gov/doj/webform/your-message-department-justice

Phone: 1-855-411-2372

Mail: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 1700 G Street NW, Washington, DC 20552

Federal Trade Commission

https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/

Phone: 1-877-382-4357

Mail: Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Response Center, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20580

You can use an AI to help you draft letters easily (Microsoft Copilot requires no sign-in). I've put physical addresses too because although it represents a big commitment of effort, few things get their message through better than a written letter.

This is not an end-all-be-all list, but I think its a pretty good starting point. I understand a lot of this represents an uncomfy amount of effort, but really, wouldn't it be an insane spectacle if Visa or MasterCard literally got broken up all because they messed with some erogames on Steam? Imagine that going down in history.

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Here are some more resources:

About GoodCompany (including their e-mail address), the company that financially supports the Collective Shits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/1m8btlo/its_time_to_take_action_a...

Here is some anti-censorship campaign materials (from voiddebris.bsky.social‬) that might help us, since it has templates, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and other information:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MNAdVCogC14dinW4OCnzNX1JkhJdTmUIStzvSROChjo/...

More resources:

https://yellat.money/

https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

https://www.reddit.com/r/lewdgames/comments/1m98dy0/here_is_how_we_fight_back_10...

Some information/insight regarding payment processors:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Steam/comments/1m9rzjk/context_payment_provider_actions...

UK Petition:

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

US Petition:

https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-w...

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Given how vague Itch has been about games being removed and refunds, I'd recommend all creators with currently delisted games should remove sales and disconnect their payment processors.

Itch has stated that if a game is removed then all purchases will be refunded. They have not made it clear if the refunds are until the date the rules changed to exclude certain content or for all transactions over the lifetime of the game. The one thing that is clear is that these refunds are likely to just be processed without warning from the creators payment processor meaning people could potentially lose years worth of sales instantly.

Edit your game, at the bottom is Visibility. Normally you'll be set as Public. Click the bit next to it to customise permissions and check the box to stop further sales. Then in User settings remove whatever payment processor is linked.

Hopefully this should protect you until things actually get resolved one way or another. If your game gets relisted then set things back up again, but as I see it currently anyone with a delisted game is at risk of potentially thousands of dollars of refunds getting taken.

also one point is if the user has to claim the refund or will they be given to all removed games. Some users have claimed that removed games still have download files in their libraries, so would itch force them to accept a refund and then take away those download files?

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Here are over 150 gaming press contacts. US and international.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1fEKLQNs2bWeMsHGZ33L-R1Y_FzUgg1sIwr3yTAJi...

We have extremely limited time now, apparently. Write these people and let them know what the Collective Shits are doing to us. Spread the contact list as far and wide as you possibly can. Get everyone you know to contact them regarding the situation.