Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up [petition on Change.org, currently 130K signatures]

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Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up

https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-what-we-can-watch-read-or-play

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1d ago

Mastercard and Visa Under Fire As Petition For Payment Giants To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up

www.ibtimes.co.uk /mastercard-visa-under-fire-petition-payment-giants-not-police-legal-content-blows-1739406

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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.
Payment processors need to STAY IN THEIR OWN FUCKING LANE!
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?
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.
- Does anywhere list numbers to call to do the same thing but about unnecessary censorship?
  
  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.
  
  Have one of them! There's dozens of posts about this on Bluesky, you could really pick if you wanted.
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.
Mastercard refused to allow people to donate to Julian Assange. Blatant political interference.
I cut up my Mastercard.
- Did you close it tho?
  
  It can't be closed, it's been cut too many times.
Good, fuck 'em.

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