They only took 1000 calls from an Australian hate group to start censoring shit... and every single post on bluesky about calling/contacting them to stop doing this has over 20k notes. They're beyond cooked.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2025
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Does anywhere list numbers to call to do the same thing but about unnecessary censorship?
One-tap dial phone numbers:
Master card
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US + Can English
(skips card number input)
Visa
PayPal
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US English
Say "make a complaint"
Stripe (unconfirmed)
Script:
I’m calling to urge [company name] to immediately end the policy that unfairly targets the adult content industry. I’m also asking that [company name] sit down with stakeholders- specifically sex workers and adult content creators- to develop solutions that ensure equitable access to financial services, create stability, and reduce harm for sex workers.
Have one of them! There's dozens of posts about this on Bluesky, you could really pick if you wanted.
Good, fuck 'em.
Payment processors need to STAY IN THEIR OWN FUCKING LANE!
~~Mastercard refused to allow people to donate to Julian Assange. Blatant political interference.~~
~~I cut up my Mastercard.~~
Update: After reading the Collective Shout website, I completely changed my mind on what they're doing. I donated to them. The stuff they are campaiging against, specifically the game No Mercy is disgusting, glorifying rape of your mother and sisters? Who the hell thinks thats a "game"? Sick.
Did you close it tho?
It can't be closed, it's been cut too many times.
I'll never forget that opener they did where Dwight starts a fire and they throw that cat through the ceiling. 11/10
Lol. Yeah I closed it. But declaring bankruptcy is more fun.
A petition is useless. There needs to be an opposing organization whose members do exactly what these other asshats to, and call and write letters to the payment processors threatening boycotts and publicity.
Crypto was supposed to do this but it's too fractured and volatile now.
It's also too awkward to actually use.
Rupay and UPI are good alternatives.
I hope interac uses this opening, I already primarily use them but they don't do credit.
FWIW for itch.io the main issue is specifically Stripe this time according to one of their employees.
Stripe fuckin' sucks for that. I've run into them pulling shit over hot sauce and other completely innocuous stuff over the years.
Hot sauce? Wtf?
Hot sauce has a HUGE market, large variety of clients and brands, I'm sure one had the word "sex" or "boob", something like that that made them block it. Pretty sad.
It's funny they want us to BUY games and not pirate, then literally remove any method to purchase it. Just stay on your ship in the seas.
Yeah, a lot of hot sauces have extremely graphic names. Probably more along the lines of nonconsensual backdoor usage.
So did did Visa and MasterCard ever stop payments to... like... Infowars? I know PayPal went after them but the credit card networks are a level even higher.
I mean yeah they shouldn't get involved in that. Just let the law deal with the people buying things that would be illegal. And this is also why cash and crypto (for online purchases) are the best way to buy things. Credit card companies should have no say in what people buy.
I can't sign it. It tell me my perfectly valid mail address is not valid
I was always a bit "Why would I bother with crypto instead of fiat?", I just got an answer. Hopefully Steam/big names affected by this adopt crypto payment processors.
Okay I'm stupid.
What's wrong with removing rape and incest games from Steam?
Edit: Thank you all for your answers, I was nervous to ask the question incase I would come off as a troll or ass hole or something and piss everyone off. They are very informative and have given me much to read and think about.
Porn bans are a wedge used by conservatives to widen the criteria once the ban is in place.
Interesting, thank you
The issue is payment processors unilaterally revoking access to content based on what they (or a conservative hate group with a telephone campaign) personally find morally impermissable.
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Steam choosing what to host on their platform is fine. A random payment processor forcing their hand due to mild pressure from a fringe Christian group in Australia is not. Because those loonies will classify anything outside of a married couple having missionary sex as obscene and harmful.
First, they will remove rape and incest, then they will remove all LGBT games, then they will remove all nsfw, and then they will remove all violent games and so on until only the games deemed acceptable by the US evangelicals are left.
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First question: Why is it okay for payment processors to conduct censorship of any kind? Why is it their place to decide what is and is not buyable?
Second question: What's the next thing some right-wing death cult is going to pressure them into censoring? Anything addressing minority rights? Any adult content at all? What about sex toys, birth control drugs, abortion drugs, hormone treatments? What else are they going to cull from society by saying "Get rid of this or we're not going to allow you to do any business in the world?"
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