I totally agree!
The most frustrating part is that those Payment Processors themselves felt pressured to do so by fundamentalists: https://bsky.app/profile/data-sparr...../3lupw56ldg22v

After all, as long as the spice money flows, they should be happy with any purchase, NSFW or not, right? It's only the prospect of losing customers that urged them to "take action"...

It was feminist fundies this time, not religious fundies. Not sure if they were TERFs or another version of RFs.

I'm doing my part!

There is also a proposed law it sounds like from the few youtuber videos who have covered it. So, if in the US, call to your representative to tell em to pass S401

I swear it's every year some asshat comes out and tries to censor or control the internet. It gets shut down every time, but they don't stop fucking trying! Get it through your thick fucking skulls, this is OUR internet, not yours or any politician's or corporation's or individual's!

This censorship has to end

Agreed that this is bad and I hate when payment processors insert their opinions into things instead of being neutral third parties..

...but most of the people now saying "we need to show corporate entities that we won't let them pick and choose what we can see online" have said absolutely nothing as corporate entities have censored political opinions they don't like, so kind of hard to feel too much sympathy.

Look at how Youtube/etc have started totally changing the language people use in everyday life ("unalived / "graped" / ...) if no one's going to push back against that, then we're not winning this one

I first found out about this when Vice pulled down articles by Ana Valens https://bsky.app/profile/acvalens.net from their site after exposing the Australian Puritan Group called Collective Shout as the ones who are responsible for the policy that Mastercard, Visa, and PayPal are imposing upon us mature adults.

Collective Shout are nothing but a bunch of wankers who believes that children/minors should be protected from pornography, NSFW Media of any kind, and there shouldn’t be any portrayal or promote of the sexualization of women or violence of any kind in video games.

Here’s my words I would like to say to Collective Shout. If all of you have an issue with violence, NSFW, and Adult content in Video Games, Movies, Books, and on the Internet. Then how about you just don’t look, or just not watch that stuff and just stop telling people what to do and using the government to police what we can see. And instead start being FUCKING PARENTS! You fuckin assholes.

If we want to have access to things y’all are against, that’s our choice to make. So Fuck OFF you fuckin Braindead crybabies.

Although there is some good news in all of this mess as the Japanese Parliament have placed Sanctions against Visa because this evil Payment Process Blackmailing Scheme violates JFTC Laws.

Also have you heard the news about UK’s new law that requires people to provide some form of Government issued Identification like ID Card, DoB, or Biometric Identification just to have access to sites that offers NSFW content.

Meaning people trying to access their Discord, Twitter, BlueSky, Reddit, and etc. are basically blocked from accessing them unless they provide proof that they’re over the age of 18.

And here’s something funny, the public backlash is so bad that Collective Shout have set all of their Social Media sites to Private.

Unsurprising that various hyppocritical terf groups took responsibility for this!

TERFs for sure? They were going after rape and incest, there was a Trans component too?

That is what I have been told

Signed and shared.

For the Americans: Check out this act currently in Congress as well. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th.....enate-bill/401

It aims to stop this exact problem. Call your senators. If enough people make noise, they'll have more of a reason to support this.

The only issue here is that a friend pointed out is that because of the phrase "Lawful" it can also be hard flipped against people if the government decides something is illegal. And with out current government, I could see them trying to pass laws that make any form of LGBT+ content illegal with how various states are making such content illegal to teach in schools.

then if they try to deem porn illegal or adult content illegal in US it run against 1st amendment which then renders the law making adult content illegal null and void. think people tried this years ago and they lost due to the 1st amendment.

Yes but the Supreme Court has also reversed a lot of things and been making some questionable rulings, and the current administration is very willing to basically throw out old precedent.

it is a popular republican position that under the comstock act, porn should be / already is illegal to sell at all. this bill is a trojan horse.

Oh come on!!!! Internet is meant for sexy things. And learning things.