Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY. Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.

step 1. find your reps www.congress.gov/members/find... step 2. call each office phone number step 3. say the words Bart! step 4. you're done! it's that easy!

#SaveSpeech its the work week, so remember to contact your US representatives! Tell them to OPPOSE the following bills: Kids Online Safety Act (s.1748) Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (s.1671) SCREEN Act (s.737) FADPA (H.R.791) ACPA Block BEARD Act www.congress.gov/members/find...

Add FADPA, ACPA and BlockBEARD to your list of bills youre telling your federal representatives to oppose alongside KOSA, IODA and the SCREEN Act Remember you can just tell them "oppose these bills!". No need to say more unless you want to! Keep it simple! www.congress.gov/members/find...

Fight for the Future has a petition set up that to urge Visa and Mastercard to stop censoring games, as well as urge lawmakers to step in against their overreach Petitions cannot materially do much, but theyre great for communicating raw numbers. Its worth the 60 seconds itll take to sign it.

Under section 1 is a link to submit feedback. The thing I emphasized is that there needs to be a distinction between fiction and real life, and any policies need to respect that the prior does not involve actual people. Moderation should focus on how people interact.

WE NEED YOUR HELP WHO ARE THOSE MYSTERIOUS BANKING PARTNERS TELLING PAYPAL WHAT GAMES THEY CAN AND CAN'T PROCESS PAYMENTS FOR? LET'S FIND THEM AND CALL THEM! stop-paypros.neocities.org#paypal-partn...

The fog of war is lifting What we are learning is that these two parties are responsible for all of the censorship going on. Banks working with PayPal / Stripe, and card networks like MasterCard

Hello dear readers, In case you didn't get a popup or follow @bsky.app. I ask you take a brief moment of time to read over the community guidelines in full and provide feedback. You have until August 28th the provide feedback on community guidelines that will go into effect October 15th. Thank you

Call your representatives and urge them to oppose KOSA, IODA and the SCREEN act. Mention what is happening in mississippi

I sent feedback expressing concern with the vagueness if terms and conflation of fictional stuff with its real life equivalent and you should too.

the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content. bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... points that need addressing are: [cont]

Sharing my call and email script re: online censorship. I've been using this since May of this year. I tweaked it a bit so it's more current, and included versions for both Democrat and Republican electeds. If it jives with you, use it!

#SaveSpeech Updated list of major US bills ya'll need to yell at your congressmen about, w/ talking points. Tell em to say NO to: SCREEN ACT KOSA IODA www.congress.gov/members/find... CALL EM. MAIL EM. EMAIL EM. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.

Here's the bill btw Call your senators and tell them to shut it down

#SaveSpeech Something stopping you from sending physical mail? Here's a detailed guide for one way to do it all from your computer! Sample letters, .csv addresses, and a .pdf version of the guide can be found here: savespeech-letter-pack.carrd.co

#SaveSpeech Remember, if youre american, contact your reps and urge them not to support KOSA and the SCREEN act! Unlike Pay-pros, you dont need to waste time. All they NEED is to know is that you dont support it. Heres some talking points if desired tho: www.congress.gov/members/find...

*Why is so much censorship bullshit happening all at once?" Because this is The-Push. They've been tightening the screws for years now to the point the internet is now passively more censored than daytime tv from 30 years ago, and now they're trying to do one last push to snuff out free speech

Visa employees clearly told to deescalate ASAP MasterCard employees more than familiar with the issue Stripe feeling the pressure ACLU put out a statement CBC covered all this What you are doing is WORKING You are getting RESULTS KEEP CALLING KEEP WRITING WE ARE GOING TO WIN!!

So when you guys do you daily calls today you should ask mastercard what illegal adult content they found on these content creation platforms. Tell them to make names. When they give you the runaround say "but what have you found that's illegal". They won't because there was never an investigation

so what i'm hearing is call more

This is a pathetic statement and I’m begging every journalist to rip it to shreds

Hey, everyone who is calling Mastercard and Visa about the age verification BS. I think you should start aiming at YouTube as well.

For folks looking for a plan of attack, here's what I advise: EVERY SINGLE DAY: MasterCard Visa PayPal Stripe Call at least 1x per day, more if you have time IF YOU HAVE TIME: Your bank The ACLU, national + local branch Your representatives Call 1x per day

#SaveSpeech its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as well! PHASE 2: START MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS imgur: imgur.com/a/3pVupWQ more comprehensive info can be found here: stop-paypros.neocities.org yellat.money

Assume that Stripe is lying and continue to pressure them however, it isnt a BAD idea to call your banks and complain about Stripe, Visa etc and ask about your own bank's policies

This doesn’t mean to stop calling by the way. The execs in those meetings are shifting the levers back ever so slightly so they can see where it is we’ll stop calling. Don’t stop calling.

A Stripe rep hung up on me when they realized they told me they're disallowing "LGBTQ content" in transactions, so either they're slipping up more or just being more honest about their real intentions. Keep the pressure up, keep calling, maybe start recording what they're telling you.

«On Videogame Censorship, Payment Processors, Call Campaigns and more» 🧵 Resources — 𝐓𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐭𝐬 thread (for calls, mails, etc).

A letter to payment processors restricting the sale of independent media with adult content 📩 Write a copy legibly by hand if you have the time, make changes or add personalized commentary for a greater impact, and mail your letter to: Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe

SEND PHYSICAL LETTERS WRITE WRITE WRITE

Mastercard: 2000 Purchase St, Purchase, NY 10577 Visa: P.O. Box 8999, San Francisco, CA 94128 PayPal: PayPal, Inc., 2211 N 1st St, San Jose, CA 95131 Stripe: 354 Oyster Point Blvd, South San Francisco, CA 94080

#SaveSpeech just as a reminder, while my cheat sheet is good, stop-paypros.neocities.org is constantly being updated as well, often with more up to date/comprehensive info! this is a great resource to share along with yellat.money and my cheat sheet!

Cheat Sheet v.2 nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i more comprehensive info can be found here: stop-paypros.neocities.org yellat.money MAKE YOUR CALLS!!!

A PayPal call center supervisor said they actually completely agree with me. They said that if enough people call PayPal they would be forced to take notice. I explained the Patreon/Itch/Steam situation and they said they're a creative themselves & that they hope the situation improves. CALL THEM

‼️Important Update‼️ There have been increasing reports of people receiving verbal abuse when calling in complaints So we've put together steps + a script to follow if this happens! Please be careful out there ↻💬♡ to help spread the info!

#SaveSpeech V.2 Alongside focusing on payment processors, we ALSO need to pressure our govt representatives about the 'Kids Online Safety Act' aka 'KOSA' I made a script (combining my own talking points w/ a script from stopkosa.com) find your reps below! www.congress.gov/members/find...

Liberals will not save us. They're collaborating with fascists already www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

👏 AND WE 👏 WILL KEEP 👏 UP THA PRESSURE 👏👏👏👏 i'm not getting less corny with these emails

this is worth remembering. we dont have to be perfect. our opponents aren't exactly fighting with flawless logic and arguments, so if you stumble a little and flub a point during a call, its ok, you didnt fail the cause.

Ok I just called Visa since that's my card issuer. 1. Played dumb with frontline customer support ("why can't I buy my friends game on Steam / Itch"). They tried to dump me to email but I escalated to a supervisor. 2. Played smart with the supervisor, and caught them in a lie... 👇

I made a quick and dirty anti-censorship cheat sheet to help onboard people and direct their energy in a productive direction. This isnt as comprehensive as various websites being shared around, but it should be easy to share and save. Save the png and repost as widely as you can

itchio putting out a list of prohibited material is unrelated to the impact our calls have. that's the list they were always going to have to put up. keep calling until the processors are made to give up enforcement of that list. do not stop calling.

i wrote a doc explaining why it's important that you call Visa / Mastercard and how to make your complaint as effective as possible (script included) rentry.co/visa-masterc... for a campaign to succeed, it needs a high volume of legitimate Visa / MC users voicing their opposition to these policies.

Visa is easy but you have to trick the phone tree with Mastercard 1. select option that you have a card 2. select option to for account info 3. press a few random buttons when asked to give ur card, wait until it transfers you to an agent 4. Request to file a complaint abt discriminatory practices

Oh my god

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

Create NSFW art Porn is not evil, sex is not abhorrent, pleasure is not a crime Even if you don't agree with all kinks doesn't mean they should be allowed to censor art This is why we have tags and the blick button, not megacorps deciding what we can and cannot like Always resist oppression