It is annoying how much downtime I need between People Events I'm still hibernating from Thanksgiving

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this is the moral panic the idea that a story, painting, drawing, video game, or other creative work that depicts uncomfortable topics is the same thing as real life CSAM or violence against women is how we end up having to scan our faces to open Spotify no one is harmed by fiction or art

Another great way to help re: the Fakku censorship (and other kink-art issues); writing emails / calling journalistic outlets that would have reason to cover this, and explaining the situation. Already sent a few emails, here.

Patreon Policy Team emailed creators saying they'll host a livestream clarifying existing 18+ guidelines on DEC 11. If you're a creator please show up! You can submit issues you'd like them to cover in the rsvp form.

I hardly ever go and Argue but I was shown just how unwilling even 100% independent games news people are to touch the censorship issue. It's like they revert to the reasoning of a toddler when they're faced with a game that destroys their idea that it's all made to be happy pointy shooty play time

Calling this number is super easy and fast literslly got my message thru between reskeeting this and quoting this just now please do it

Visa and Mastercard are next bullying works

Thank you for continuing to be loud about censorship It's been a lot of doom lately and I want you to actually congratulate yourselves on these little victories and let them invigorate you bc they add up to a movement Fear is a good motivator, despair is a terrible one and hope is the best of all

Like or comment on this post if you called your reps or the Energy & Commerce committee to oppose KOSA and the other bills 💃 I'll send each of you a kiss on the wind

I'm done with their complaining, the general public hates censorship so much that the reps can't pass the bill without giving up their political career, so maybe, *just maybe* they should stop trying to pass it. it is a hell of their own making, literally excuse me while I go scream into a pillow

Show them what happens in a dark souls fight when they get tired and impatient

This thread records what was said/discussed during the house committee meeting, i recommend giving it a look

Main Office: (202) 225-2927 Majority Office: (202) 225-3641

is there a number thats not member specific? i don't have a member on the committee

I called the Energy and Commerce office again and told them how horrified I was that they're trying to shove the bills thru so quickly when they talked like they didn't even know what was in them. Said it felt like they were hiding something and was ill prepared. Reiterated my opposition of them.

Also call your rep regardless if they were on the committee because they will ALL vote! Don't forget your House rep. My House rep's office said they took detailed notes and got my info to follow up. The smaller area your rep controls, the bigger impact you have on them

You can find who is on the committee for the Kids Online Safety bills today via the link to the Energy and Commerce site I reposted, so if you have a rep, please also call them directly and complain Everyone else pls call the E&C lines Main Office: (202) 225-2927 Majority Office: (202) 225-3641

Please call if you can! We want them to know they're having this hearing in the shadow of our vehement disapproval

This artist just got their paypal nuked, please support them! ❤️

We can make as many new platforms as we want but they will all have to bend the knee to payment processors. We know who we must force change on.

I really think this could have bipartisan support too because the whole political spectrum has had their own reasons for being angry at paypros, whether or not everyone agrees on why

I really want to start pushing this on our reps because, if we can look for a sec beyond the horror of the current administration to a better time, it's something that we want to show the population has a strong appetite for now Not perfect but way better than this

It gets easier the more you do it so use that as a starting point. It's never as bad as it is in your head

Being super afraid of phone calls doesn't preclude you from putting one in. If all you can truly manage is "I need to file a complaint about your censorship of legal adult content because it's wrong and it's making me lose faith that you're someone I can continue to use (or something)" that is fine

Some tips from a customer service rep to help with calling Mastercard and Visa! Remember that you can be both polite and refuse to give up easily. Be kind but be heard!

Periodic reminder: if you care passionately about online privacy, security, anonymity, and not having to fear bullshit speech restrictions, one of the best US organizations to put your budgetary dollars for it is the Free Speech Coalition: www.freespeechcoalition.com/join

Definitely one of the most aggravating things someone can do is make me guess their emotions and beg me to drag something out of them that they're obviously raring to talk about. I clock it quick but I resent it. Use your finely evolved communication skills

We are actually doing something. DON'T STOP CALLING.

If Mastercard says there are no restrictions and to contact your bank, I recommend telling them that your bank redirected you to Mastercard / your bank was of no help

As posted in a few servers and was alerted to this picture earlier today: What they said. DO NOT FILL IT OUT, it is there to fuck with your artist peers and yourself, they (paypal) can and will abuse this and steal your money by banning your account

The GOP (including those who run Mastercard and Visa) has never been the party of small businesses. I think that facade is crumbling at this scale for the first time

Yeah my head of marketing, she's definitely overpaid but we can't find anyone else who will do it

Today is the day! Make some phone calls to Visa and Mastercard if youre able to and keep it going as much as you can muster until monday!

us: stand your ground on the phones with MC and Visa but be kind to the rep on the phone! scold fetishists: you're horrible for stressing out those workers. you're not getting anything done. excuse me while I go repost my daily 20+ furry porn accounts, half of which have had their paypal nuked

Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season

Water on stone makes canyons. Wear that motherfucker down

Mastercard is bleeding, get in there. Make some calls. Get some cool family members in on it over thanksgiving

Let's Keep Calling!

My advice, as a former call center supervisor, is to fish for ways to escalate your call to a supervisor. Upper management HATES when the supe call cue is long. We used to be in perpetual callback hell back where I worked and they constantly devoted extra resources to combating it.

Wheedle as long as you can about escalating to a manager. They'll avoid doing that as long as possible , kite them in circles asking why, re-explaining the problem, you're super confused as to why you can't just get someone who understands the issue. You will likely get disconnected. Good luck babes

Been a minute since I posted my Mastercard/Visa strats to drag out the call 1. Ramble at the beginning for as long as you can - goal is to clog the line 2. They won't insist on card # if you say you're in public 3. When you get disconnected call back and lodge a complaint about it immediately

Sure! Mastercard, Visa, Stripe + Paypal are further restricting what kinds of perfectly legal adult content you can buy through their processor (they cracked down on itchio and steam over the summer, not to mention Patreon a few years ago). We're tired of them acting like dictators instead of tools.

IGN is paying attention to censorship again. Use their momentum, call visa and mastercard, tell them you read the article, ask them why they're censoring legal stuff reminder that you don't need to know specifics of what's at play. It's often better to sound like a normie

May your demons slumber was a piece I did way back in 2014 and is still one of my most popular pieces (and one of my most stolen) Cards can be bought on my old Redbubble though! www.redbubble.com/i/greeting-c...

As far as I'm concerned, there's no good faith way to discuss AI. The entire concept of AI is bad faith personified, and people are beyond fucking sick of having harmful, dangerous tech shoved into every single device and website. If you think that's "bad faith," that's on you, not us.

This place sucks without Goran's art, words, and muscles Anyone who bans a person for trying to help starving victims of genocide deserves to shit themselves to d**th

Hey @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @support.bsky.team please unsuspend Goran immediately. Goran is a great person, a great artist, and the whole anti-Palestine thing youre on is one of those "Ford funding Hitler" disasters you remember being shocked and dismayed by when you learned of in middle school.