signed, seriously we need to do something about this to stop this wave of censorship and shame sweeping the world

Easy: Keep crap like this from happening in the United States of America!

Thank you for sharing the AU petition. Probably would have missed it hadn't I checked this journal. <3

Thanks! The Canadian Petition link is helpful. Had no idea you were in Canada.

I've sign that up while ago.

I don't know why payment processers feel the need to do this dumb crap.

Like their job is to make sure money goes from point A to point B. They don't need to know why, and realistically shouldn't care as long as they get their cut

It's because the creepy old rich people who own the companies enjoy using their power to arbitrarily restrict people from being able to enjoy things.

I'm afraid I live in the US, so I doubt I can contribute. But you've got my support, and I hope this bullshit is shut down before it hurts you and others.

Signed, this is getting ridiculous, though canada was safe but I have been sadly proven wrong

The one for Australia should be a Petition to have Melinda Tankard Reist and her brain-dead followers within Collective Shout all arrested for defamation and lost revenues/profits of the livelihoods of Indie game, comic, novelists, artists, and escort workers who depend upon the income of their creations.

The UK one should be a petition for the removal of that bastard Keir Starmer as the PM of the UK as well as the complete audit of OfCom's entire operations.

I'm in the US so I'll try and raise awareness to my friends who I know that live in those countries. Although I'm pretty sure they already know about these petitions

I am cheering for you guys!

I thing everyone in the US need to call and remind our elected officials to start passing the anti-debanking bills currently in congress, and of course to say not o those shitty censorship bills

What can someone who's not from those countries do?

The thing is, this sort of thing is a long time coming. We didn't listen to the doctor equivalents about the internet, only the candy salesmen.

With the release of the memetic weapon genie from its bottle, information control is going to happen.

That is, unless, you WANT a future where mass murder is a law enforcement tool...

... welcome to a world where the Vulnerable World Hypothesis is true.

Signed! Thanks for the heads up!

This is a bit of a stretch, but, as I understand, what's happening vis-a-vis the payment processors and their backing banks could be taken as a form of violating free speech/expression.

Banks (Canadian ones in particular, I don't know about elsewhere) have to be accredited by the Government.
The government is charged with not hindering free speech, and preventing activities which hinder free speech by way of their intermediaries - similar to how Trump was forced to unblock Twitter users from his account during his first term as POTUS.
Banks, and Payment processors (Paypal, Stripe, Credit card companies), being accredited by the government can be seen as government intermediaries, and presently are taking actions which prevent free expression - to say nothing of other legal claims which could be made about unfair competition.

I think this is a worthier cause than we all believe, and should force the issue to be recognized.

signed from AU 💕
thanks for sharing 🥰

Seriously, i HATE these stupid censorships happening everywhere! I am just getting really angry about this.

And now i am also hearing these governments are trying to over-reach everywhere! It's so tiring.