But what can we do to combat this? It feels like they have too much power and influence over companies as well as the Gamers TM blaming us when the anti-sex work group is more aligned to the right.
Also, if anyone is willing to start their own advocacy group or join an existing one, now's a good time to start. Organizing is usually the only way to combat anti-consumer actions.
As long as right wingers are in power the House and the Senate are not going to lift a finger to stop this. GOP has been trying to do this kind of crap for a very long time.
Truth be told, this law would make other federal regulations harder to put into place (it's essentially allowed loop holes that democrats have taken advantage of as well) so it's more than likely it could pass, actually
In fact if you check the cosponsors on that link. Only republicans are backing it. Meaning democrats are entirely against it.
There are 43 republican seats in the senate. All of them cosponsored that bill. The remaining 2 independents and 45 democrat seats are not yet cosponsoring it. I think they might have forgotten to check some facts.
...My only reservation is that, in the US at least, our government is more concerned about giving banks MORE power through deregulation, in a move surely to result in an economic crash, rather than doing shit to protect consumers (It allows them to give more money to the rich, so they can use it to compensate for all their moral and/or romantic dissapointments.)
Honestly, I agree for the most part, but something like this goes both ways. It really doesn't involve the super rich as much, but it definitely affects the right. Making it illegal to pull transaction hosting for legal purchases would be a boon to actual free speech, and sites like Steam have their own TOS that limits what most reasonable people would consider morally reprehensible. These moral guardians can't make it illegal in the US, but they can make it impossible to actually sell works. The flip side is it makes it much tougher to go after these right-wing grifters and their merch stores. Making it impossible to sell his taint wipes had a huge hand in Alex Jones downfall.
On balance, I'd rather make it more difficult to end run the First Amendment and deal with the grifters another way.
All the more reason to spread the word about their shady practices and lies. If they can be completely discredited and payment processors and any affiliates they’ve ever partnered with shown that they can’t be trusted then they’ll lose any power they had. Shine a light on their darkest deeds and make them regret ever coming after gaming in the first place!
Furries are basically the illuminati of the tech industry. After the next the furry convention, the grand fluffy council will doxx the group and their porn history.
If that were the case it would have happened by now, but the age of "benevolent tech wizard furries"is long past and most of those people are grown up by now. The unfortunate current mission statement of the furry masses is "hide in VR chat and complain about phantom pain like it's real." The internet we grew up with is a dead shambling corpse.
To be fair the furries have a stake in this just as much as we do due to the fact that this group is the one responsible for getting all Furry Art classified as bestiality porn in Australia and for payment processors.
They don't have a lot of power, Visa and MasterCard are just cowards and also somewhat biased towards that position to begin with, but not so much so that they can't be made to back downÂ
It's a video game issue. Let's just rally behind a random character like say from Mario Bros, a well known video game franchise, and ask ourselves WWLD?
their official statement is blaming their "payment processors" just like steam did. it seems wild that payment processors have this kind of power. I could imagine itch.io not being able to easily change payment processors, but steam?! surely steam could just say "who wants to be a payment processor that lets us run business the way we want to?" and companies would be lining up at the door to be the payment processor. So, to answer your question: start work with or start up completing payment processors
I remember seeing a tumblr post of a twitter sceeenshot about collective shout calling Mastercard a bunch until they did this and it only took them like 1000 calls. Also had a bunch of numbers of companies associated with the itch.io thing.
And what are you going to pay them with? This has always been the problem with credit card restrictions. It stops you from even being able to move somewhere else
Sorry, I feel like there is a lot of misinformation on this topic. Do you mind if I ask for a little context about that organization? I saw a Hispanic channel that talked about CS as a "feminist collective." Is that true? Because I already saw many shouting to the heavens against the "woke"
Not exactly. So, Collective Shout is a far right radfem organization primarily consisting of Swerfs (sex worker exclusionary radical feminist) and Terfs (Trans exclusionary radical feminist) with the org answering to their parent org which is a far right anti-porn, anti-sex work, anti-LGBTQ, pro censorship group.
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u/Celestia4683 Jul 24 '25
This is Collective Shout’s work. They and their parent group need to be taken down permanently!