cancel culture is dying hard.

sadly, this will be used to advance the chi ese social credit system here in america and the advancing of the digital i.d. ...

Its about time Cancel Culture died off.

sadly the crazies are going out kicking and screaming. the powerbrokers will simply "rebrand" and carry on...

nothing can stop the coming storm...

Oh I knew they would go out kicking and screaming.

This is by far, one of the dumber things. Whats more like likely, the guy who was found guilty of lying to banks, means they done want to do business with them. Or "They don't like me as I am a repub!"

TBH this isn't a left or right issue, this is a censorship vs anti-censorship issue.

Steam and Itch.Io were also victimized by debanking.

No? That's payment processors, not banks. Like Master card is not a bank, PCIs do work "on behalf of" banks but are not banks in of themselves (We are not talking about Amex here thats its own thing, and oddly are fine with ya buying porn with there card). This EO/Law is fully about banking services, not payment processors, it can pass and Visa can still fully say "You can't use our card to buy porn" but your bank will now be banned from closing your account if your defrauding them.

Thank FING GOD

It isn't a law yet, but I contacted my rep and senator to support this bill full stop!

Well, it's something...I hope that we keep fight against Visa, Mastercard, and Paypal over this abuse! Not sure how this would change the way how payment works, but any restrictions made in how they use legal force like this, is at least a step down the right road here.

Still not sure about the administration handling this...But hope the government and the court stops their antics against steam, Itchi.o and gamers, but to many in general.

If only we can stop karens from using anything to abuse this as well, would love to see their faces twist in anger when we call them out on their stupid antics, same with the CEOs from the payment companies.

Only thinkg this bill does is punish Visa and MC if they deny people access or transactions cause of "reputational risk."

As for Collective Shout they apprantly made a big oopsie when they did that shit with Visa and MC.

Ya see as a foreign activist group they need to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act: https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara

However sense they didn't, and ended up influencing US markets by telling Visa and MC to go after Steam and Itch.io both US based stores, they basically broke the law.

I think reporting Collective Shout for this would be one way to deal with them. But not out of vengeance, but to stop them from oppressing creative expression in a country that has nothing to do with them.

Would be good info to sent out to the Australian government...Not to mention to report this to sensible US official...We need lesser antagonistic groups, and even lesser karens causing more problems for us.

also CS didn't do shit they just claimed credit for visa and pay pall doing what they all ready did with tumbler they really had noting to do with payment processors choosing to do this payment processors have been trying to do this for years they just finally found a party and congress willing to let them get away with it

Of course...Just hoping more legal action can be made against them if they violate any more financial laws and such...

Well as far as VISA and MC goes: 10,000 dollars per violation would be a handy and powerful hit given they love debunking so much it will hurt them.

As for Anime and Manga which were also victims of debanking sense last year; Japan will have to step in. Big companies like Kadokawa called them out on their BS which costed them money, and you know a company hurt by this is gonna get politics involved.

Well, least this is getting somewhere...and I hope this will bite back on Visa and Mastercard, hopefully Paypal as well, hard!

I REALLY hope that this passes.

Banking institutions are in no position to say what we can and can't buy. Be it a videogame or whatever.

We also have the other 2 bills in congress as well, so we got a few shots in the chamber against this bullshit.

i wish it was Collective shout that was Arrested and disbanded and while its nice to hear there is a solution for America that ..really dose nothing for us outside of America's control unless like how it started in the UK this law spreads globaly but as the video said it could take years for this to even become a law and by then it might as well be to little to late the damage done and the payment processors get what they want

The only way that the UK GOv can pushing their crap globally is if other countries allow it. We have a Constitution in the US, so other countries laws do not apply to us. If they had we'd of already be doing shit at the behest of China's Gov, or North Korea's.

What country are you from? o . o?

western Australia and our government is no better then the UK's

Oh...I've been hearing about that....x ^ x

I hate that the countries I like are getting shafted by their gov't, not that we haven't had that happen years back...

The best we can do, they need to pass 2 things to secretly undo it this time!

indeed.

I’m praying his other executive orders get approved and become law.

They are in a manner of speaking but the EO is basically getting the federal reserve on them to.

We'll have to buckle down and see. Next week Congress will get back into things if not a bit later, and the Japanese Diet as well, hopefully they focus more on fighting censorship as opposed to pushing it

Agreed.

The fight against all censorships is gonna be tough one.

Yes, but we don't have to give up!

Never give up!

And man, the things i'm hearing around the EU has me very worried too.

I am really hoping something will be done about it.

Figured i'd share this little thing as well, because why not?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM94tOOuHMg