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I wonder if the introduction of the Online Safety Act in the UK also had an effect on the decision to pull adult content.

The more you read about Visa the more of a shit bird they are. They really do just sit above you and poop all over your life.

So in my opinion, Itch is not the target. The payment companies are. If you feel strongly, you can sign this petition with ACLU - action.aclu.org/petition/mas... Or see contact info for the relevant parties here - yellat.money

A CONSERVATIVE group wants to limit other people's access to media?!

In Brazil, we have a digital payment system called Pix, which charges absolutely no fees from Brazilians, is instantaneous, and is state-owned. This type of service cannot be in the hands of big tech companies, which only care about profit and have no ethics.

I thought the controls were to prevent children from seeing adult materials before their brains were developed enough for rational thinking. Mind you, I am seeing a dick-a-day pop up on Bluesky. What is wrong with people? Wasn’t PornHub and every other porn site enough. Everything is ruined by men.

I don't think it has to do with them wanting to be the content police as it does the sheer volume of chargebacks and customer service time spent on payments for that kind of content.

They won't realise they need to stick up for it until it's too late! We'll brand them as argyll-wearing sickos anyway, so they feel ashamed to stand up, despite pretty much everyone having golfed at least once in their lives

Fun fact! We brazilians have our own free payment processor called Pix which is also being massively targeted by these companies and the lobbying that is going on right now is kind of scary

They are just the choke-point. Who is forcing them to make this change?

Kapitalists gonna kapitalize.

PREACH MY BROTHER ✊🏿

You don't have to imagine, THEY ARE all of these things, so much that creators of LGBTQ+ games have already started reporting to having their games also de-indexed from itch.

reactionaries only want to invoke '1984' when we take away their freedom to be pieces of shit when in fact this is called being held accountable

Citizens United is fucked. GENERAL STRIKE!

But it also gives rise to crypto which can easily be used for criminal enterprises. Like all the shit the rich get up to. Like buying people. You’ll notice no government has actually done anything concrete against crypto. They just bitch and moan.

What resources does one need to start a new payment processing company?

My bank offers me a choice of Visa and Mastercard. It is a very dominant duopoly. They are not obliged to support payments for illegal activities, but any attempt to veto legal content seems to me to be a de facto abuse of a dominant market position. Hopefully at least the EU can rein this in.