Visa/Mastercard told two major game distribution services to remove certain games, because a religious organization pressured them. Gamers are pissed.
The reason they want emails is because the phone calls are slowing the call center SLA to a crawl and tanking their metrics for the quarter. If this keeps up, the payment processor will push back next time and Christian authoritarians won't be able to get away with shenanigans like this again.
They probably have their customer support laid out as phone, email, and maybe chat. Phone is the most expensive support channel because it's 1 person to 1 problem and it's impossible to scale, so they can't roll out a bot or ignore the metrics for long. Keep up the pressure!
Despite what religions say, this is what they actually do:
They attempt to control your life based on their fiction.
Every time. Every year. Every century. It never stops. This is what religion is about. Controlling everything and everyone. For the better? Nope. Definitely not.
Id be all for benevolent authoritarianism.
That said, religion will never be that.
There's no benevolent authoritanism.
Otherwise, I'd be in-charge.
I'd be all for magical unicorns.
For maximum disruption, phone, then email. If they don't respond in a timely manner (or it's boilerplate bs), another phone call to "clarify" things.
Just remember, the grunts on the phone aren't your enemy. Your goal is to maximise the amount of time you swallow, not to upset them. They could often be allies in hiding.
We don't have to truly break them. We just have to be more annoying than the religious nutjobs.
US local phone numbers, English:
Master card
800-627-8372,1,1
Visa
800-847-2911,1,4
Script:
I’m calling to urge you to immediately end your new policy that unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers even more vulnerable. I’m also asking you to 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.
So hey, what are the actual alternatives to Visa and Mastercard, especially if you live in the US?
Amex and discover for credit card. PayPal (has also done similar), crypto if accepted and debit.
That's a good way to start the mass adoption of crypto as payment system.
Gamers said they wanted women out of games, I thought they'd be happy. /s
monkey instincts are doing very unkind things to my cognition.
i cannot solve this the monkey way
this problem cannot be stabbed with sticks or smashed with rocks until it stops being a problem
there is no danger of me letting these instincts actually attempt to do this
but the urges...
the urges are so loud.
so annoyingly, incessantly loud that even though i can continuously resist them,
the resistance is taxing me enough to make me even LESS competent at other tasks x_x
Are they a religious org? I thought they were explicitly feminist, or is that just the CEO?