There is no overstating how bad repealing Section 230 would be for the Internet. If you are a US citizen and have ever enjoyed one of our games, or any other piece of queer or "controversial" media, then please consider contacting your representatives and encouraging them to not support this.

NEW: They kept saying they were gonna do it and now they've done it A group of clowns (Senators) have introduced a bill to FULLY REPEAL Section 230. No reform, no replacement, just utter destruction of all online free speech. We can't let this happen. Share & take action www.badinternetbills.com

“Here’s your meal, full of delicious lead” I don’t want it. No thank you. “Well, what about if we just use lead in the cooking process? You can’t even taste the lead in the final meal” I’m leaving. “You’re being childish. Soon everyone will be cooking with lead” have you fucking listened to yourself

we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫

I ran across an ad for this shirt during my normal web browsing. Perhaps some here would appreciate it.

Very disappointing to see Weight Gaming embrace AI, but more disappointing to see them do it with a bible-length "I know the game creators all vocally hate it, but I believe the silent majority agrees with me!" call-for-civility dodge

I don't usually go for stories about overeating, but it is Thanksgiving -- and @mollycoddles.bsky.social managed to pivot perfectly to inflation with Jessica Blows Herself to Pieces. Read it at @swelltales.bsky.social! swelltales.com/Home/ReadTal...

If you aren’t willing to publicly embarrass yourself by loving something but being bad at it and doing it anyway, then you should shut up, probably

“waaah my art isn’t good enough to fully portray my GREAT IDEAS, I need to use AI” listen i spend years putting my terrible art online and having strangers tell me it was terrible and off-putting and then i did it long enough that it got less terrible so sorry if I have 0 sympathy for your plight

Just so it's clear. It's not allowing AI because it's trying to create a clean dataset for training AI. It's not because any of the involved parties actually care about human created art. Demons can lie to you. You have to rebuke them categorically, rather than fold when they say the right words.

The AI bubble needs to burst, because this nonsense is a discriminatory threat to anyone who isn’t a white cis straight civilian

this should put the fear into anyone who sells anything even vaguely NSFW on the internet. Ana Valens has been DEBANKED because of her activism about paypro censorship - as in the kind of thing they do to international drug dealers. they have flagged her BANK ACCOUNT. for doing giantess/vore vtubing

Me irl XD

We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"

Day 20 - Summon Dana tried to disguise herself as a cow to get abducted by aliens.... Shame its probably just another dream..

if you want a woman to have fat tiddies and a fat ass but can't handle the accompanying fat tummy, arms, and legs, you're a coward and your name will forever be forgotten

“When they rob us of art and emotion, that leads us towards the aesthetics of fascism. In this film, all the sets are real, the decor is human-sized, there are painstakingly created miniatures... It’s there to remind us that art is not only necessary, it is urgent. And AI can go fuck itself!”

If the US can ever vomit this stupid era out we're gonna need widespread all-ages education on basic facts like when you'd see old billboards or MST3k shorts advertising the concept of hand washing or being good. Stop Using Gasoline To Wash Clothes. Springs Are Ubiquitous & Essential To Modern Life

It's a much scarier scenario than most people realize. "Porn" is always the trial run. These SV venture capital types envision a future where you are not permitted to sell anything, trade anything, create anything on your own. They want to capture EVERY LEVEL of the human experience as payments.

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

there's an episode of The Simpsons where Marge tries to get a violent cartoon pulled from the airwaves, only to discover that the people backing her aren't going to stop at just the art that *she* doesn't like, and that supporting artistic freedom means accepting discomfort. It aired in 1990.

Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches

This bullshit bill is called The "Anticorruption of Public Morals Act". If you live in Michigan, please call, fax, and email your representatives and Governor Gretchen Whitmer to veto it.

rest in piss

I take writing erotica seriously as an art, and there's nothing more disheartening than posting a spicy story and getting these bloodless bot replies with their fake "deep analyses" calculated to wring engagement out of an artist desperate for attention

the problem, as i see it, is not that censoring erotic content is a slippery slope to censoring LGBTQ+ culture. it's that censoring erotic content IS censoring LGBTQ+ culture.

stripe.com/en-mx/legal/... Actually call them the fuck out, they are violating their own business ToS by restricting purchases of LGBTQ+ content when they themselves list that that type of discrimination goes against their ToS.

No lie, this calling campaign is one of the most effective levers we have at the moment. If we sustain the campaign through the financial quarter we'll be sending a strong message that this administration is bad for business. Please continue making censorship unprofitable.

Mastercard has reached the stage of desperately trying to gag people for saying bad things about them WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WORKING

The Cartoonist Co-op stands against the censorship and pay discrimination of 18+, erotic, and NSFW artists. Check the link below for our official statement, ways to take action, and resources. cartoonist.coop/censorship-p... Art by @greedygulo.bsky.social

Wow! This update SUCKS!

This is a small-potatoes argument but I think it's true for a lot of other artists-- drawing erotica and getting to share it with you is an incredibly fulfilling part of my life as an artist and person and having that taken away would leave me with a void in my heart so vast it's hard to think about

he hasn't stopped calling~ have you? 🫵 how to call: stop-paypros.neocities.org info and resources on pay discrimination: cartoonist.coop/censorship-p...

Facing backlash and mounting pressure, Mastercard denies responsibility for adult content bans — despite evidence and industry responses suggesting otherwise. Your calls are working. Keep it up. buff.ly/PF3MTZj

Gonna take this one step further and say if you draw adult content and don't support sex workers you should stop drawing adult content. If you are working with/accommodating someone's sexual fantasies with intent to arouse, you ARE a sex worker. Period. End of discussion.

This statement tells me a few things: 1) They are scared. You don't acknowledge something like the current movement unless you have to. 2) Whomever wrote this and approved it is disconnected from whomever made the initial decision. Wild misalignment here. 3) They are lying. Outright.

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail. Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

when someone tells you that your protest is blocking traffic, you tell them that that's the point you're causing too much of a scene and bothering people in the area that's the point customer service cannot help people who need it because we're clogging the lines THAT'S THE POINT discomfort is GOOD

Visa and Mastercard released their public statements on censorship! Visa and Mastercard are pretending they don't make any judgments on legal purchases, but Collective Shout CLEARLY told us they successfully pressured payment processors. KEEP CALLING! IT'S WORKING!

A system that says "you have rights!" and then a few years later "just kidding" is not a system that works. The constitution is so much toilet paper.

Re: visa/mastercard/stripe/PayPal Resistance works and it's not for nothing

You didn't think we'd forget about you two, did you? All payment processors get love! :) While Mastercard and Visa are drowning, these two have been feeling a bit neglected. u_u stop-paypros.neocities.org #SaveSpeech

"We are expecting a policy update" means you keep calling until itch and Steam announce the reversal of their policy changes. Do not trust them to tell you the truth with "something is happening soon" call until it happens NOW. Call until it HAS HAPPENED.

if you call and they hang up on you, call back and immediately say you want to escalate to a supervisor because you were just hung up on. you don't even need to say any other details, just that you were hung up on and need to escalate

IT'S WORKING, Y'ALL!! Keep the pressure up!!

I got through to Mastercard and the supervisor I spoke to said they're actually aware of this, they've received multiple calls and it's been escalated to their global HQ and they're awaiting a response. KEEP CALLING!!

after a very frustrating call with Visa (US+CAN), I was told that Visa would like inquiries relating to using their bargaining power to destroy adult media to be sent, via email, to [email protected] they asked. to be sent. emails. you know what to do.

Heads up for my American mutuals! The American Civil Liberties Union is running a petition against Mastercard (one of the entities behind the censorship of NSFW games on itch). Let's do our part and sign! You can find it at: aclu.org/mastercard

The queer creators disenfranchised by the Mastercard fiasco still have Kofi, many still have Patreon, and some can even be directly commissioned. Others have websites and Etsy stores. Now is the time to support them with our dollars as much as with our phone calls to payment processors.

Make sure you make some calls today! Visa, mastercard and stripe!