Btw, as the Itchio noise and all died down, Adult games are technically just banned now. Some adult games are still being sold, yes, but if you get caught or reported or whatever, all your payment options will be yanked and only a husk remains. Zero comments from Itchio on this, nothing, at all.

You NEED to call your reps and tell them this shit fucking sucks! They literally want to big-brother style waych you at all times, zero privacy, to "protect children"

For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children. Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.

I'm tired too, boss. This ain't even about porn anymore. www.house.gov/representati... 5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Before the events of Sep 10th, KOSA was reported to be dead in the committee. Now they're using said events as an excuse to try to get the bill through. Just because the debate guy got killed for his free speech doesn't mean they should take away yours. Linking resources below

The bad news keep coming These go into effect Oct 15th

#SaveSpeech US legislators are pushing harder to pass KOSA and repeal section 230. Call your representatives ASAP and make your voice heard! Advocate for protecting section 230, and demand your reps oppose KOSA!

This would make it illegal for any site that has trans content--not just porn, but everything from trans people posting selfies to essays to comics and stories featuring trans characters--illegal in the state. You've seen how fast the Age Restriction shit spread. Don't pretend this isn't possible

Time for another reminder. youtu.be/VPBH1eW28mo

"Porn bans" ALWAYS lead to trans bans Michigan bill seeks to lock up trans people for posting selfies.

#SaveSpeech Germany has, unfortunately, reversed its position back to undecided. folks in the EU, but GERMANS ESPECIALLY, need to call your MEPs about Chat Control and urge them to oppose this proposal! find your MEP below and yell at them! www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/home

Hey, so, I live in this state. And I'd rather not be labelled a sex offender by some old cunt who's hypocrtically advocated for child marriage in the past. Call your fucking representatives. Email them. This is awful.

Unlikely as it is to pass, I think maybe it'd be good to scream at your representative that you don't want people who view pornography to be on a sex offenders registry

The petition is nearly at 10k - just a little bit more of a push is needed!

Missourians, help out please tell this jackass that this shit can't fly, all this age verification shit does is protect the rich predators ago.mo.gov/about-us/con...

Danes gotta yell at this dipstick, cuz yeah, it is in fact everyone's civil liberty to communicate in encrypted messaging services It is no government's right to have unfettered access to every single person's privacy

Tomorrow we all need to pound ALL of our reps about this. Demand consequences. Theyre doing shit like this because they think they will face no meaningfup consequences, so we need to make a big fuss about this so it isnt further normalized

Don't let them get away with this without a fight, guys. This is a gross abuse of power and I know every red state is looking at shit like this and salivating

This is why we need to contact our representatives and express that obscenity laws/policies built around the concept of "obscenity" cannot be entertained, as it will be used as a bludgeon to attack any media those in power want, with no recourse. CALL YOUR REPS

While this is good to hear, it's still encouraged for anyone in the EU to continue calling their MPs to ensure that this stays dead. Make sure that they oppose this awful idea. #SaveSpeech

Don't celebrate too early, nothing has truly happened yet. The actual vote is in October, it's just that enough countries have *pledged* to vote "Block" to deny that necessary 2/3 majority. 4 states also waffle around and sit on "undecided", so a major curveball is still possible.

Canada's C-2 bill is both a gross overreach of govt surveillance into citizen's privacy, as well as extremely anti-immigrant/racist! please do not forget to sign this petition alongside the others if you are canadian. This bill is bad news, but we can beat it! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

we're on the precipice of a universal antiviral medication, mRNA technology is out here curing cancers every other month, HIV is cureable AND preventable, renewables generate more energy now than fossil fuels worldwide and and more cost-effective, coral reefs are growing back all over the world rn

Laws, bills, are not set in stone, they dont become an immutable facet of existence the moment a guy in a powdered wig slams down the gavel Even if you couldnt stop a bill from going through? You can still be part of the force that gets it overturned.

Hey if you live in Ohio, calling your reps and expressing your displeasure over this upcoming law is worth doing

We pushed hard Stop Killing Games for over a month, and now another threat appears to remove games, but it goes beyond the games industry Payment processing censorship affects all mature content and its creators, and a few countries can now speak up about it! UK Petition CA Petition AU Petition

Welcome back to the fight, IGN www.ign.com/articles/ste...

The official Canadian Petition to reign in payment processor censorship has stalled out just under 10k signatures. This is a reminder for Canadians, this is an OFFICIAL petition that will be responded to. Show your support in protecting our free speech! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Fellow comic folks, we gotta be having the conversation over the sweeping censorship in this country right now. Between bad laws like this one (even if they may be meant in good spirit) and de facto censorship by credit card companies, like... it's one of greatest external problems to our business.

Visa and Mastercard reportedly coming for FAIRIES and CAT EARS Get on the phone and ask them wtf is up because this even made me double take bsky.app/profile/dark...

I simply cannot stress it enough. You cannot sit this out. They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised. Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.

House of Commons paypro censorship petition e-6695 ballooned from just a couple dozen signatures on Wednesday to over 4.4k today. Among petitions open for signature for the Canadian legislative body, it is the 6th most signed Within the 45th Parliament, it's the 13th most signed petition for HoC

CANADA, UK, AUSTRALIA!! y'all all have official petitions targetting paypros censorship! IF YOU LIVE IN THESE COUNTRIES, SHARE THESE AROUND AND SIGN THEM ASAP. And verify by email! CAN www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... UK petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73... AUS www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

Right now there's a petition in Australia to establish a law that would prevent organizations like "Collective Shout" from forming harassment campaigns. This is only for Australians to sign, but it's also encouraged for others to share the petition. #SaveSpeech Link: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...

This isn't like the average online petition btw, this is one of those things where if it gets enough signatures, the HOC absolutely must bring it to the floor for discussion. Incredibly important to get on this if you're Canadian.

#SaveSpeech 🚨If you're in Europe, remember to contact your EU representatives to tell them you are OPPOSED to chat control.🚨 Even if your country's already against this, contact them anyway! Contact your reps: fightchatcontrol.eu Help stop Chat Control: www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha...

This sums up this payment NSFW fiasco pretty well.

yesterday this petition had less than 800 signatures. today it has almost 2500. can we get it to 5k next? come on number go up bay bee!!

Oh my gosh, getting in touch with the BBB WORKED. PayPal is restoring my account and I should have access to my money again. If you are in the US or deal with the US PayPal and your account is randomly, without warning, and without explanation closed down, file a complaint with the BBB!

This is why I keep reminding everyone to keep calling. They're not backing down, they're doubling down. I know you're tired of seeing it, I am too, but we can't afford to stop. They can't be allowed to get away with it. Don't stop calling.

I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is - adding backdoors into encryption on OS level - "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY - let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals it needs to be stopped, post haste

These paypros still need to be pressured over this shit! If you havent made any calls yet, now is a great time to start doing so because theyre only continuing to ramp up their shitty censorous behavior!

Canadians, definitely contact your members of parliament to discuss your worries about both the Canadian internet ID bill [S-209] as well as censorship by payment processors. express an interest in protecting creative works from being classified as "obscenity"! www.ourcommons.ca/members/en

Hey, folks on VGen... Look at their ToS. They FORBID "porn". "Mature art" is fine. "Porn" is not. That's some fuzzy logic at best; some conservative weasel words at worst. I advise folks to eschew the platform in favor of ANYTHING that EXPLICITLY diferentiates. help.vgen.co/hc/en-us/art...

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.

My last word on the ID verification BS for now is that 99% of problems with minors online would be solved if OSes and websites put kids in a "whitelist mode" by default with settings behind a password set by parents, so they can opt-in to what content their kids see and what people they can talk to.

c) the government can't send a legal demand to the liquor store asking to see every license of every person who has walked in the door (because they don't scan and store your ID) d) the liquor store doesn't offer free sex education, domestic violence resources, suicide prevention, etc etc

Online age verification is not like "showing ID to buy alcohol" because a) the liquor store doesn't get to scan your ID and store a digital copy of it forever in a database that will inevitably get hacked b) you don't have to show ID to go to the library because they have cocktail recipe books

anyhow age verification laws are bad and they make kids less safe while gutting online free expression and privacy so maybe you should tell your lawmakers not to fall for this nonsense www.stoponlineidchecks.org