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The group responsible is "Collective Shout", the same org has targeted Steam before.

There are calls on social media now to contact Mastercard, Visa and co. and file complaints.

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What else do people use itch.io for?

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 9 points 2 days ago

Safe and clean games like my own Diarrhea 4.

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[–] Magical_Spark@jlai.lu 11 points 2 days ago (8 children)

Is there an alternative to those payment processors? I feel like using those are just not good if they go down that road.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know this is more of a serious thing, but I was thinking that I kinda hope these payment processors try to ban some big European company over some puritanical bullshit and then Europe responds with threatening a complete ban on them to put them in line. Ain't no way any payment processor would ever risk being banned in one of the largest markets in the world.

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[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

I bet a lot is money that these companies would take money from Trump and never child fuckers.

[–] dangling_cat@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (8 children)

They should do Twitter next. Twitter has nsfw AI role play now and it should be banned by payment processors.

Edit: I say this because I want to bring up the hypocrisy of the advocacy. Why they get to choose what companies can do porn which cannot?

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[–] burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

aclu.org/mastercard petition

[–] TwistedTurtle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is one of the big use cases I could see for a crypto like Monero. If someone made a Patreon-style site that used XMR, I'd be all over it.

It's one of those network effect catch-22s though. There's probably not enough people using Monero to justify creating a site like that - but we'll never hit a "critical mass" of Monero users if there aren't ecosystems that encourage its use.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

I have the impression that the American government is doing all it can to delegitimize the American Dollar. Between that and the cultural impetus of sexuality, there is going to be a huge opening for Monero and friends to establish themselves as genuine currency.

[–] commander@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is becoming the norm. Don't think there can be some new payment processor based off traditional finance and banking that can get around this. Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Square, SEPA, FedNow, etc will all rather block transactions to companies that deal in NSFW or whatever is considered dangerous content than try and be some neutral payment rail.

Any in terms of cryptocurrency, any stablecoin will end up subject to the same problems where the issued stablecoin is backed by a governments currency or bonds or even like corporate bonds which are regulated by countries and those are all clear ways to regulate what is appropriate for spending money on. Stablecoins have freeze and clawback mechanisms, at least the ones that are legally compliant. Really to me the only solution is for non-stablecoin/gold/etc backed cryptocurrencies to become popular for payments

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