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Lol, I’d like to see Visa and MC buildings overrun by groups of multicoloured cartoony animals.
Furries have hated the whole “legal adult business made difficult or randomly disrupted because the payment processor companies decided they dont like you” thing for quite some time now. Ive seen multiple artists I follow in that space make multiple switches of platforms because of it and plenty more complain about them. Tho its usually been paypal that gets complained about there from what Ive seen.
Knowing the furries, we probably have agents in every one of those corporate data centers already. XD
We sic the furries on them…
And stand with them!
Furries are also a part of the phoning campaign, I’ve seen it all over my bsky timeline. We’re (the sane ones, not the 18 year old puritans) all pretty upset over it because it’s pretty obvious this is yet another attempt to erase queerness online with the veneer of “protect kids” or whatever the fuck they’re saying now.
I’m sorry… 18 year old puritan… furries? Can you elaborate?
I feel like it took much less for them to make the decision to take it away than it is to just restore it…
Back tracking is FAR harder, ego wise.
Part of the goal isn’t to reverse it, but to slow further slips down the slope. They will remember the hassle it caused this time, and decide that it’s not worth trying for an easy life from the religious nutjobs, if the gamers will kick up more of a stink.
So in other words, gamers are rising up?
they are naruto walking, converging on mastercard HQ
Calling Visa today for mine! I don’t play those games, but I hate the precedent. It is not a payment processor’s job to dictate what can and can’t be done. (Now, I have worked FinTech for many years, there is a legit risk they are taking that the feds would blame them however -) it should be on the company selling the product itself, and any decent legal team at a payment processor would be able to handle it like a normal Tuesday.
I feel this situation is only going to get worse for everyone. We as consumers, gamers or otherwise, don’t really have alternatives to this monopoly. At least that I am aware of. Typically if a company acts up we can just boycott it. But what other options do we even have here?
Cash. Start using cash again.
How does one safely use cash over the internet?
You can buy Steam gift cards with cash and redeem them on Steam.
As somebody who loves the internet and technology…
Ahem…
FUCK THE INTERNET. BURN OUT THE FUCKING CANCER AND THEN REBUILD AFTER.
As a joking/ not so joking reference to the title. I unironically hope that this new wave of censorship attracts the ire of the Furry community. I can just see thousands and thousands of IT workers spending their spare time and money on fighting this shit instead of spending it on their hobby. I can see the potentially unlimited power.
On it’s certainly gotten their attention alright
Sorry for asking a question that might be google-able but is this worldwide? I haven’t been on Steam lately and don’t normally purchase adult content through there anyway so I feel super out of the loop.
Also, why are they saying that adult content is not okay on those sites but they still work on actual adult sites? I’m just confused and the shit AI-generated articles I have found on this topic haven’t really helped.
So it all has to do with the extremist movement to censor online content. The argument is that ‘anybody’ can access Adult content, even though most of the situations there are verification, filters based on age, parental controls, etc. Since these groups weren’t gaining traction on the platforms (i.e. Steam) these groups started harassing the payment processors themselves. Because the processors don’t want to be held legally liable, they threaten to pull the ability to process payments through those channels (aka no more Mastercard / Visa unless you give in to our demands). So this is all or at least largely in part due to the monopoly that these payment processors have on the market. Obviously if your business is strictly online and the majority of your money comes from transactions from Mastercard and Visa, you’re going to do what they say lest you risk losing the majority of your business. As a side note there has been some progress made in Europe to break up that duopoly. I don’t know a lot so do your own look up but there are other payment processing options. If you can, do your part and support those companies!
Gamer furries
Why would anyone ever piss off the furries? Do you WANT your internet to suddenly go at dial-up speeds?
I mean, yeah, that’s definitely a part of them.
Furries have felt their entire identity targeted, even the sex stuff set aside. A bit like the drag queen attacks.
I’ve read through a few of these now, and I still can’t figure out what the source/evidence is that has convinced people that visa and MasterCard are responsible for this. That seems to me like a pretty critical detail, but noone has mentioned it.
The literal rule change they made that caused this explicitly states you have to follow payment processor guidelines:
Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers.
They also basically cofirmed this was brought up by the payment processors.
Thanks!
Bring on the downvotes, but this is where crypto shines. No bullshit rug pulls by ancient payment processors.
They need to have the rules to apply to furry and tranny porn as well; I’m sure nothing will happen to their security infrastructure.
tranny
That is considered a slur, btw
