Payment Processor Censorship (Visa / Mastercard / Stripe / PayPal etc) - Discuss Payment Processor/Gateways/Banks censoring people in this thread.

[AngryGreg1960]

They better be blocked OF too if they think it that way. Gamers are too oppressed by bad games lately

 

[innocent jogger]

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We have never censored anything, anywhere, what are you talking about chud, we never bullied the japanese to fuck with their porn websites, we also did not bully steam to accept our demands, or demanded itch.io to remove NSFW and horror games, you are being a disinformation agent

So...what part of Josh selling T-shirts and hoodies is unlawful???

 

[Dumcumpster]

If they think I, a capital G Gamer, am a bigot now, they haven't seen my true power yet. Fuck you mastertard

 

[Do Not Touch Me Pls]

I'm surprised fucking MasterCard put out such a public facing statement.

They're now no longer boiling frogs alive, this is freefall territory.
Keep on pushing and potentially take it to the streets.

 

[gagabobo1997]

Keep harassing the wagies at call centers and complaining on X.com, it seems to be working

maybe email this faggot too

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

I'm surprised fucking MasterCard put out such a public facing statement.

Complain loudly enough, often enough and annoyingly enough and no matter the power of who you're complaining to they will address it.

 

[Paul-Denton]

I would be far too MATI to actually send an effective email to this creature. I literally want these people drug out into the streets and subjected to the worst things possible. If you work for these demons your soul is already forfeit.

 

[WelperHelper99]

Keep harassing the wagies at call centers and complaining on X.com, it seems to be working
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All this means is to redouble your efforts. Keep calling, keep emailing, keep tweeting. Mastercard responded after less than a week. They are shitting themselves

 

[StacticShock]

Complain loudly enough, often enough and annoyingly enough and no matter the power of who you're complaining to they will address it.

that... didn't work in tianamen square...
thankfully the US doesn't have that kind of people in power but they never stop trying though, you guys have 2026 and 2028 to keep these fucks away from positions of power.

We have never censored anything, anywhere, what are you talking about chud, we never bullied the japanese to fuck with their porn websites, we also did not bully steam to accept our demands, or demanded itch.io to remove NSFW and horror games, you are being a disinformation agent

nigger, link the xwitter too.

 

[Bonesjones]

Incest and Rape porn are classified as obscenity in the USA, they are correct and you are just tilting at windmills because null has a grudge.

 

[Creative Username]

Incest and Rape porn are classified as obscenity in the USA, they are correct and you are just tilting at windmills because null has a grudge.

why is it their job to enforce the law then

 

[Farmholio]

It's worth bearing in mind that even if a payment network isn't literally specifically forbidding specific transactions, their policies combined with their centralized control over critical infrastructure inevitably leads to a chilling effect that we're seeing. Like, even if all they're doing is jacking up rates for "high risk" situations because they feel like they need to cover their asses for the feds, that still IN EFFECT makes merchants drop products and businesses, and it effectively demonetizes content. The problem is it should not be up to them, or to any single unelected body, to decide how much it costs to be allowed the privilege of receiving money from a legal business. It shouldn't really be in anyone's power to make that decision, and the authority to make such decisions should come from elected offices that are directly accountable to an electorate and also to other overseeing bodies.

The problem is the simple existence of a private body that centrally exercises global control over all business and free expression. All it takes is for that body to exist to create problems. An unaccountable small committee that has power over all business worldwide: such a thing cannot exist without fucking society up... which leads to it getting demolished and regulated to force public accountability.

Mastercard and Visa quite literally need to be destroyed and turned into a dozen or so smaller companies AND to prevent future corruption, payment processing as a business needs to be regulated as a utility to prevent it from birthing new oligopolies. NO body on earth should be exercising global power of moderation on business and expression. If such a body exists it must be destroyed and its powers split and separated.

This has happened before with other critical infrastructure monopolies (railroads, oil, telecommunications, electricity, etc.). A corrupt monopoly or oligopoly forms and then because they're unaccountable they basically control all of society and strangle the shit out of business on a global/national scale. Until the damage is so great that it's no longer tolerable and they get their shit kicked in hard. That's how it gets fixed every time: By destroying the oligopoly and splitting its power up into smaller bodies, and by increasing the accountability of businesses in that sector with regulation.

Mastercard and Visa form a CORRUPT DUOPOLY and they need to be broken up and then regulated as utilities. Anything short of that will not actually fix the problem and the problem will crop up again and again until then. Honestly I believe it's an inevitability, because these situations are too big a problem to carry on indefinitely. Sooner or later they cause so much havoc that there is no fucking choice but to fix them. Hosting content on the internet will probably have a similar situation down the road, i.e. Google getting hit and regulations providing relief from platforms privately controlling all content on the internet.

 

[KingFrampt]

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We have never censored anything, anywhere, what are you talking about chud, we never bullied the japanese to fuck with their porn websites, we also did not bully steam to accept our demands, or demanded itch.io to remove NSFW and horror games, you are being a disinformation agent

We only prevent unlawful purchases, you're not breaking the law are you?

 

[Bonesjones]

why is it their job to enforce the law then

Because obscenity is one of the few laws that have and are actively used against companies. Its like asking why Boeing hires a bunch of DEI retards that will kill people. They both know the outcome of standing up against it.

 

[Quioui]

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[REGENDarySumanai]

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Didn't take long for them to eat shit. Complete and utter payment processor death by busting their duopoly and regulating them so they aren't IRL jannies.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

The fucking gall of them to do this.

It would be funny if it wasn't so infuriating at the same time.

 

[Farmholio]

I don't see anybody on there commenting all the incidents of payment processors supporting outright illegal activity. Which happens all the time.

If the goal of deputizing a corporation is to stop illegal activity it doesn't actually work, not that I think that would be the appropriate way to do that anyway.

 

[REGENDarySumanai]

I don't see anybody on there commenting all the incidents of payment processors supporting outright illegal activity. Which happens all the time.

If the goal of deputizing a corporation is to stop illegal activity it doesn't actually work, not that I think that would be the appropriate way to do that anyway.

Cloudflare is used on ISIS websites, but we are the evil ones for a risk of life.

 

[Necrosan]

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I still think they are just following a plan and they really thought that Twitter would still be a censored hellhole by this point. They have been attacking the Internet from many angles lately.