Thread 716328610

Now that the main payment processors ruined it, is it time to find alternative options, or even finally switch to crypto?
Is this a shot in the foot for Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal, and the tipping point from which people will start using cryptos more widely?

lol no, goycattle will just accept it and move on

>>716328610 (OP)
>and the tipping point from which people will start using cryptos more widely?
No >>716328861 is right. Crypto is just too inconvenient for average normie.

>>716328610 (OP)
This won't end unless some gamer™ pulls a Luigi

Hate to break it to you but H games are not mainstream enough for anything to happen

>>716328951
>H games
they're going after shit like detroit and GTA too

>>716328951
They' are censoring ANYTHING that has adult content in it. You have had your head in the sand and do not realize how far gone things are. By the time you realize you've fucked up gaming is going to be basically illegal.

>>716329028
rockstar has gotten woke and needs to take an L

>>716328610 (OP)
BRICS was specifically made to develop alternative banking systems and avoid this problem.

>>716329028
Good. Fuck GTA for promoting criminal activities.

>>716328610 (OP)
No Null, pizza day is over
No one is starting a crusade against payment processors

>>716328861
>>716328938
But porn is for goycattle

>>716329028
GTA can go blow

>>716328610 (OP)
Just play Klonoa

>porn games dead
>ozzy dead
>hulkster dead
>chuck magione dead
>bruce willis likely dead next
what a horrible fucking week man

Maybe next time don't brag about the speakeasy, normies don't have an adventurous spirit. Much less the wherewithal to intuit most of the things the dumbest 2010 4chan residents knew.

Save up your wank banks kids its fappening

>>716328610 (OP)
People will never use crypto we need alternative payment processors that are less cucked

>>716328610 (OP)
A competitor can only appear in a country that is not part of globohomo for the simple fact that even if customers can pay with crypto, the company still needs access to regular payment processors to pay employees, electricity, taxes, etc.

>>716328610 (OP)
There is no alternative.
At this rate, VISA/Mastercard will effectively ban GTA6 two days from launch and bankrupt Take Two.

>>716330000
>quads were wasted on this stupidity

>>716330000
this guy knows

>>716330474
t. goycattle

>>716328610 (OP)
how is less than 1% of the consumer base using crypto going to reduce the leverage these jewish companies have?
whats stopping them from just buying the most popular crypto exchange and monopolizing that?
why are you amerimutts so fucking dumb

H game players are the same as trannys, an extremely small percent of players who are a vocal minority and no one cares about them

It's weird how the money masters get to decide what does or doesn't sale. What happened to muh free market?

>>716328945
Yep. They won't thought

>>716328610 (OP)
I use PIX

>>716330004
>>716329854
They're coming after 4chan next. Fuck 4chan, right?

>>716331124
The mean the wild part is that its literally your money and they are just holding it for you. I don't play porn games nor do i give a shit about sex in games but i think the concept that someone who holds money for you gets to tell you what you can buy or not.

They forgot their place and everyone just let it happen

>>716328938
I wonder if a company that has already revolutionized the digital distribution sector and made Linux accessible to the average person, could create a crypto-based uncensored payment method.

>>716328945
Literally anyone can do is hope someone will sacrifice themselves for the greater good and it never happens because nobody wants to give up their life or their freedom.

>>716331124
"Freedom" is a cudgel to use when you don't get your way, the people who matter are getting their way so nobody gives a shit. The constitution is a literal piece of paper and nobody cares about playing within the magic circle anymore.

>>716331689
>made Linux accessible to the average person
you don't seriously believe this right?
normies don't use linux

>>716330357
I honestly hope they ban gta6. never cared about the game and it will be nice sign that nothing is safe. visa could kill nintendo tomorrow as well for all I care.

>>716332064
>normies don't use linux

>>716332185
nobody bought that

>>716332185
Might’ve aswell posted a phone using Android. You’re reaching.

>>716328945
Wouldn't change anything, retard.

>mogs the rest of the world

Nada pessoal, goycattle.

>>716332929
no one cares about this thing joao.

>V-VISA AND MASTERCARD ARE NOT MONOPOLIES
somehow I don't believe this

>>716330120
>Bruce willis
doesn't he have crippling Parkinson's or something?

Praise Zhongguo! Death to Amermutt payment processors!

>>716328610 (OP)
Crypto will have a hard time taking hold as long as fucking boomers still have control

>>716328610 (OP)
Oh NOW the journos care?

>>716329854
On the off chance you actually believe it I hope you get raped by a nigger.

>>716333090
Trump was seething about it, saying it's unfair competition or some shit.
>no one cares
lol, I don't get why there aren't more countries developing similar systems, apparently the US has one too but people refuse to use it for some reason. Even though it's centralized at least it's competition for these fucks, ideally we should use crypto but it's too slow to fully replace these systems.

>>716332903
Really? Then draw Muhammad in publicbright fucking now. Literally draw a stick figure, label it "Muhammad" under your real name and putnit on social media.

>>716333127
sorry, buddy - they're national duopolies, which means they're fully protected under law

>>716328861
>>716328610 (OP)
This. I would like to purchase things using crypto but how do you do that? I just dont get it

>>716331689
He has more than enough money to take this shit to the supreme Court. He chooses not to because he also supports it

>>716333510
They will get fired if they have nothing to shout at

>>716333609
trump wasn't seething about it. is seething about Brics. because countries are fed up using the dollar as a form of transaction. why the fuck do they need to pay taxes when they do transactions between them? US is a fucking middle man and as soon that's over america is going to collapse because is not working or producing shit.

>>716328938
Not to mention cryptofags cratered its reputation with the constant scams and general faggotry. no one is going to take crypto seriously now

>>716328610 (OP)
cryptocurrencies are purely speculative
if you are using them to buy commodities, you are an idiot

>>716333510
If only No Mercy got banned they'd be celebrating. It's a complete farce to pretend they ever cared about freedom of speech as a principle.

>>716328610 (OP)
>p2p filesharing exists
Why is this a problem?

>>716333510
They care because now gay games are getting targeted along with evil misogynist ones
But slippery slow doesn't exist

>>716333171
Dementia. Theres video for it. Dont look it up if you dont want his image completely ruined for you. Hes not gonna make it this year.

>>716334113
devs wont make games anymore if they can't get paid

>>716333923
PIX is literally a BRICS initiative, all participating countries are encouraged to make their own alternative payment systems to break free from the banking jew.
Literally what /v/ wants but they're too pea-brained to realize they've been propagandized against it.

>>716328945
>>716331817
It used to be easier back then, the government has too much raw strength, wsy more than before

>>716329028
Good. GTA and anything else Cuckshit has done was never anything more than edgelord exploitation garbage aimed at dumbass edgelord kids.

>>716333975
That's pretty much it. Was suppose to be an alternative currency, was warped into gambling rather than an means to purchase anything.

>>716330000
checked

>>716328610 (OP)
Alright sit down anons, even if you get alternative payment processor in the states, this is still unfortunately the problem.
Yes I'm quoting >>>null here he might be a huge faggot but he's not incorrect.

>For the law to have value, it needs to do the following:

>First, it must create a federal civil relief with statutory damages for lost opportunity, ideally with riders for punitive damages, and also attorney's costs and fees. As this is a purely financial matter, it must make financial sense to sue one of the largest and most powerful companies in the world.

>Second, it must undo existing requirements already imposed by the federal government on financial services. Title III of the PATRIOT Act "deputized" (in the words of Ron Paul) the financial services to act as a form of law enforcement, one which cannot be appealed and provides no due process. By the time the PATRIOT Act was not renewed, the vestigial remains of these Title III requirements had been reshuffled into other parts of the U.S.C.

So lets say you get your alternatives to VISA, and Mastercard in the states. Well... How are you ensuring they aren't going act as a form of law enforcement in the same manner this current duo-poly currently is? You want BOTH the alternatives of other payment processors AND every provision of that faggot ass PATRIOT Act to be repealed including the shit that wormed its way into the code of law. Having other nations with their own payment processors would also help.

I know Pirate Nation, and Chibi skim this site for easy views for Twatter, so if they're both reading this, you better let nigs know that the problem is far more deep rooted than it seems on the surface.

>>716334462
We voted for it.

>>716334389
is useless because is not big enough. not even big enough to surpass chinkpay.
if it was brics. pix would be already a card on multiple countries already. is just another retarded local fintech with no power outside brazil

>>716334352
Then they will make them for free.

>>716328610 (OP)
Would you be willing to using a Chinese payment processor?

>>716328610 (OP)
is American express as censor happy?

>>716334473
Who cares about GTA? Point is that even tame shit is on the radar. They want video games to be baby shit cocomelon crap for toddlers only so lil Timmy doesn't accidentally see the cleavage of a boobie cause it'll make him a rapist in 15 years

>>716335150
I'll use anything that serves my purposes. I hope china finally takes over

>>716332929
I looked it up, you need an account with a Brazilian bank

>>716331689
Steam has been censoring games for a decade already, they're more than happy to comply with visa and go even further.
They didn't make Proton because they love Linux, they just did it because they were scared of windows giving them competition.

Europe will save games again

>>716333775
Payment processors are like 60x the size of Steam and while a lawsuit is ongoing they could throttle payments, main issue here.

>>716335150
Yea, i don't see the problem

>but muh data spying

I'm more worried about NSA/FBI/CIA harming me than whatever Chinese agency.

>>716334113
of course a fatfag would also be sluggish on logic expecting someone to make a game off the streets with no electricity and half his shit gone

>>716334998
silence mexican

>>716335368
>Steam has been censoring games for a decade already, they're more than happy to comply with visa and go even further.
They only censor games cause of VISA, they have nothing to lose as long as what they sell is legal or doesn't piss off tge processors

>>716335150
More than willing. Payment processors are a means to an end, not my friend. Fuck visa and mastercard. I've always hated them and I'm glad people used to not accept them in the past. They were right to be cautious

>>716335150
they have my life if they let otaku content flourish unhindered

>>716335184
Part of the problem is acceptance, AMEX and Discover don't have nearly the reach as Visa and Mastercard did. Even in the states you will once in a blue moon come into a shop that won't take Discover.

I know GoG didn't accept discover so I had to set up shenanigans with pay pal as a middle man.

No Idea about Either companies political leanings.

>>716335318
Some foreign payment systems can use it, like "AstroPay".

You don't necessarily need a BR bank account.

>>716334283
>don't look it up
I work in a hospital and those are always the most depressing, and annoying, patients.
I'm not sure I've ever seen a family member with one of them.

>>716328610 (OP)
>Paying for porn
We used to laugh at your kind 20 years ago
Zoomers are the most retarded generation that has ever existed

>>716335537
>Valve hire wokies from Santo Campo
>Instantly start censoring stuff
>T-this is because of VISA! Totally not because of woke retards infiltrating Valve
Yea no

>>716335456
Silly faggot, how will they know you made a porn game if there is no money trail to link it you and your adequately paying normie job with low hours?

>>716335853
>We used to laugh at your kind 20 years ago
this nigger knows what's up.

>>716328610 (OP)
>how can I use this situation to grift for crypto
What is wrong with you retards

>>716333171
So did Ozzy

>>716329028
you mean they tried years ago and failed
they're going after h games now because they're the low hanging fruit and most normalfags won't have a second thought abou it.

>>716332929
Brazil is also getting Chinese Payment Processors on top of having PIX.
Zion Don only managed to make Brazil get even closer to China kek
who'd think that using your currency and trade system as a weapon would make other countries make their own alternatives LMAO

>>716335537
could be half and half to me
even in that 2018 blogpost, they explicitly state their staff are not unified on anything, probably not even creative freedom itself

>>716335853
people have always paid for porn. no porn has ever been free. all you have nice people sharing it.

sorry brazil you can't use pix internationally anymore because it doesn't follow the communist party guidelines.

>>716335828
i was locked in a ward with nutcases for a while (brain damage types i mean, the kind that piss and shit themselves and can't be trusted not to kill themselves accidentally ((i had serious brain damage from an accident and was losing my memory randomly))) and there was an old dude there who had dementia and alzheimers, his daughter would visit him like once a month, and he'd ask why she doesn't visit more and she'd say "dad i visit you every day you just don't remember" and i'd think what a fucking whore, but i was scared to cause a scene because i didn't want another needle in my ass from the nazi staff, but man it pissed me off
he'd always ask if he could go to a nice home instead of that sick fucking hospital and she'd just flat out tell him she wasn't going to waste her inheritance on putting him in a nice home
fucking whores i should have killed her but if i did i'd still be locked up, they know what they're doing
i hung out with him all the time though during communal hours, he was awesome, constantly talking about wars he wasn't even alive for and describing battles he didn't fight in

>>716336275
EU is also working on their own payment method. gonna give it to trump and techbros. killing america for israel faster than expected

>>716336086
Because they weren't involved with payment processors back then, now they've tasted blood

>>716333641
silly anon, most gamers aren't mudslime

>>716328945
glow harder faggot

it already exists, but literally no one uses it outside of China. I am not even sure it is possible to get a card if you are not a client of a chinese bank. I have one, but only because I have a chinese bank account, never seen it used outside there

>>716336275
Tecnically you can since countries like Portugal and France now accept it.

Like the other anon said, other foreign banks have the hability to use PIX as a payment system.

>>716336921
meant for
>>716335150

>>716336921
Pretty sure UnionPay already works everywhere, though it's just a matter of people's preference.

>>716336121
I know, but even still people are still gonna use PIX for majority of things.

Still, it's funny seeing US BigTechs seething over PIX and LGPD. Like how do you mean Brasil is the only country that thought of this?

>>716336921
>In Brazil, UnionPay cards are accepted in key commercial zones and by merchants in major tourist destinations such as Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Iguaçu, Manaus and Salvador, as well as by ATMs of Banco Itaú and the Saque e Pague network
https://m.unionpayintl.com/cardholderServ/globalCard/ae/global_3/10040282?type=2

>>716328610 (OP)
I was surprised to learn how shitty and limited payment systems are in the US, which reminded me of that drama about how far behind they are on internet services and they realized how much better other countries had it.

>>716337208
Every BRICS country made its own payment systems around the same time as part of their dedollarisation agenda, the world will be so much better off without mutt kikes.

>>716336921
>Implying China won't start censoring the shit out of everything just like VISA

>>716332440
Sold less than ps vita, is vita normie core

>>716337297
Here in SEA we just use our phone to pay anything lol. US really are behind the times

>>716337416
EU's making one next year when the digital Euro goes into circulation, precisely in response to the duopoly of Visa and MasterCard. Problem is, the ECB is like the FED and the french are quite retarded.

>>716328610 (OP)
JCB pls come back...

>>716337509
Porn transactions are subject to extreme regulation and taxation. I'm honestly surprised visa went for this.

>>716337690
The digital euro and dollar, both are coming, are ways to completely oppress the population, when they decided it's time to shut you down they will instantly steal all your money and block you access from everything, exactly how it already happened in canada in 2021.

>>716328610 (OP)
Crypto is too slow and expensive to ever be viable. The only option is forcing the government to stop payment processors from so heavily restricting free speech when they almost certainly receive federal subsidies and contracts.
The only language they speak is money.

Maybe Itch didn't get more than gentle pressure from payment processors and they just took it on themselves to mass hide content in a chad move to force something to happen.

>>716328610 (OP)
Just have a hentai game store where you can pay with cash

>>716337663
What you use is a virtual debit card. Those are still processed by Visa and MC.

>>716337820
Crypto is too fucking explosive. If my fucking crypto currency can go from 40k to 0.00003 in a manner of months or if it's 1 rugpull away from being worthless what's the point? Completely financially unviable.

>>716337813
You mean to tell me they're gonna do what they already have the power to do?

>>716337894
No, it's magic.

>>716328610 (OP)
Can't valve just sell Steambucks with 1:1 conversion rate to bypass this shit? Pretty sure that's how Japanese websites like dlsite and fanza circumvent selling loli.

>>716337813
meanwhile this thread only exists because mutts decided to shut you down and steal your videogames
this isn't even anything new, shit like paypal has been randomly blacklisting people for decades

>>716337894
Nope. Visa and Mastercard has nothing to do here. There are lots of Online wallets available such as Shopeepay, Gopay, etc. We dont need to use Visa and Mastercard. Just fill your wallet using ATM machines manually.

>>716337868
What a moron. Look at all the other shit that happened to every other fucking game outlet, including japan only ones. By doing it in such a, cut everything first, announce later, they have a huge risk to their credibility going forward.

>NO I NEEEEEEEED TO COOOOOOOOM
Total gooner death
I would say getvfucked but we all know you'll die unloved virgins

>>716337987
How can seize your cash? The implication is that within the next years they will withdraw all cash and only digital currency will be accepted and erogated.

>>716337806
They got forced out by...guess who?

>>716334462
Corpos are also significantly more powerful and consolidated, and they're openly malicious towards employees and customers alike.
They survive only because consumers have abysmal quality standards and many of them have functional monopolies on their markets.

>>716328945
Yet the Luigi thing itself changed nothing, curious.

well I guess it's time to fucking do anything and everything to push out Visa and Mastercard and go into crypto and other international banks.

if you like having any sort of freedom it is basically your duty to actively harm the two duopolies in anyway possible.

>>716337974
This also. Even if you were a permabull on crypto, you'd have to be fucking insane to take your Bitcoin and spend it on a fucking pizza if you think Bitcoin will be worth $1 million at some point.

>>716338143
>they will sieze all your cash
And the first time the electricity goes out, there will be a riot. You think of all the scizoid thought about why they want to go all digital, the true reason is the most retarded think you can think of. They want to prevent bankruns. Same shit with digital IDs. The infrastructure for this will always be lacking because it's the governemt doing it and the government likes to drag it's feet about everything.

>>716328945
do it yourself faggot, why are you retards obsessed with killing someone? you do know that taking someone life isn't easy? fucking first worlders being desensitized to the most retarded shit (will complain about rape though). even south americans are more sympathetic than you dipshits

>>716338439
UnitedHealth dramatically dropped in stock value and the company is under several investigations. It's not much but certainly not without real impact.

>>716329236
50% of brics nations have laws against porn you dumb cunt.

>>716338439
UnitedHealth reversed a whole bunch of anti-consumer/anti-patient regulations after

>>716335409
>Payment processors are like 60x the size of Steam
That doesn't matter. When both parties are sufficiently wealthy, then the gambit of vindictively drawing out court proceedings to financially ruin someone doesn't work. Gabe himself is worth four billion. He could fund a team of lawyers for 100 years if he needed to, but the reason he doesn't is because it's not worth it. The adult only games that focus on sex sell fuckall, and it makes no difference if they're on the store or banned to valves bottom line. If you wanna sell sex games, then go to Jast, Fakku, or dlsite, they don't need to be on Steam.

>>716338668
>50%
is not even that. is all about what china decides or do you think a country like fucking bolivia has any form of authority?

>>716337509
My nigger Chinks are as much of a bunch of coomers as Japs and Gooks are.
Chinese media in general is a lot more "hands-off" than i expected when i started watching their stuff.

As long as you don't say obvious shit that would get you banned (i.e Tiananmen, Taiwan, FalunGong etc) anything goes.

t. doomscrolls on RedNote

>>716338862
I was just talking about the R and C.

>>716338793
why daiz isn't fucking dead already?

>>716328610 (OP)
I will keep shopping on GOG since it is DRM free and is also European, so it falls under EU laws. I am European obviously. I have zero trust in any American company right now.

>>716338884
Meanwhile genshin keep getting more and more censored

>>716328610 (OP)
I made an AI slop porn game on itch that makes a decent amount of money (a few hundred bucks a month). I'm going to disable itch payments and put up a bitcoin donation address if/when they relist my game.

I know I won't make nearly as much, but it was never really about the money anyways. I just like making porn games and don't want to interact with payment processors anymore.

>>716339018
Porn games were already taken off GOG tho

>>716328610 (OP)
>still have all the pirated nsfw shovelware you can get for free

All the good guys are dying while video games are being censored

>>716338021
The payment processors are enforcing these policies at the platform level, not the transaction layer. So even if you don't break their TOS in transactions using their system they'll just refuse to do business with you because somewhere on your system you have no no items.

>>716330120
vaxed status?

May I introduce you to our payment system?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pix_(payment_system)

It's free, instantaneous, tax free. Italy has been considering implementing and it has been spreading throughout South America. Visa and Mastercard have been seething about it and you bet banks were butthurt when it was implemented.

> Pix lets users bypass credit card networks entirely, enabling direct transfers through mobile apps, QR codes, or account keys.
>The US probe will investigate whether Brazil has been favoring its local payment system over established American alternatives such as Mastercard, Visa, and other US-based fintech companies.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/u-s-investigates-brazil-s-digital-trade-practices-amid-pix-dominance

You too can make payment processor seethe by asking this system to be accepted by stores or to be implemented on your country.

>>716339065
What's your plan if they don't relist?

>>716337974
this is basically why steam stopped accepting crypto

>>716339219
It already has a thread on F95 where people rip new versions a week or so after I post them. I'll probably just go there and post updates directly.

>>716336619
>Stop trying to have fun you glowie

>>716339032
What's that other one which the ad was basically a girl giving a titjob on a poolcue?

>>716339318
I meant for collecting money. Just counting on donations?

>>716338946
???
What do you have against this mid Asian chick?

>>716339212
don't i need a hue hue bank account . that shit is going to get flagged during a security clearance review

>>716339384
Oh yeah. I have a full time job that pays me more than enough. The game was just for fun anyways. I'd keep working on it just for donations instead.

>>716339018
>He doesn't know

>>716328951
Look up what the top earning patreon/subscribstar are doing. Most of it is porn lol

>>716339397
Mid Asian chicks are top tier and I won't hear otherwise.

>>716339536
no wav

>>716328945
Reminder that after Luigi did his thing United Health Care DID improve their services..... until LITERALLY FUCKING BLACKROCK sued them for overspending.

Know your true enemies.

>>716335150
no, japs are getting pissed the fuck off so I’ll just wait for them

>>716337974
>Crypto is too fucking explosive.
Didn't trump sign a bill about creating a reserve of
"stable coins"? I'm too brainlet to understand what those are and can only infer from the name that they don't fluctuate in value much.

>>716338528
Wishing for someone to die is as natural as breathing anon

>>716339362
You're probably thinking of Korean games

>>716339141
Does steam not hide AO content by default? The onus is on the consumers for stating they're 18+

>>716339212
>The US probe will investigate whether Brazil has been favoring its local payment system over established American alternatives such as Mastercard, Visa, and other US-based fintech companies.
HOW DARE YOU FAVOR YOUR --LOCAL-- SYSTEM INSTEAD OF (((OURS)))!?
Based Hues.

>>716328861
you jest, normies celebrated the degenerate garbage in bg3. this will trigger most of them for sure

>>716328610 (OP)
All of you need to shut the fuck up. It’s clear that you can’t come up with anything practical to save your ass so why bother with trying to “save” anything?

>>716330000
>modern 4chud is so retarded that they forgot this

>>716339540
My penis is too large to be wasted on women of the small penis race, so they're all yours, my averagely endowed friend.

>>716334462
This is what they want you to believe. The reality is that the people doing this are just as vulnerable as the average joe, if not more so because their current whereabouts can easily be found by the public. Like have you ever just looked around at apartment rooftops or whatever surrounding your local town hall and thought "What would stop someone from just setting up a sniper rifle and taking a shot at the CEO or whatever when he's making a speech?"
Well turns out literally nothing, you just need to be a good shot.

>>716328610 (OP)
Alternatives exist, they just need to take down the duopoly.

>>716341505
literally who?

>>716340741
>mfw 8x6
>mfw destroying her rice paddy
More for me.

TOTAL VISA AND MASTERCARD JEWS DEATH

>>716341858
>>716341551

>>716339430
So far, yeah, a hue bank account (a digital bank that works in brazil but also works outside works, a quick google search led me to nomad global and astropay) or a fintech company that accepts it such as pagbrasil.
Ideally it being directly implemented like Italy is considering it would be the easiest method for anyone wanting to use it, so making people aware is a good first step.

It's ubiquitous here in brazil, so it started to spread with people needing to accept transfers by brazilian tourists or from people traveling to brazil.

>>716339970
They're based on the USD but that still doesn't solve transaction times and transaction fees.

>>716340179
You expecting radfems to be logical?

>>716328610 (OP)
Not buying your memecoin, Tim

>>716339362
Azur Lane?
It was created by chinks, but the company is based in Japan.

>>716342021
Qris dominate Asia
Pix dominate South america (and soon Europe)

Tick tock jews

>>716342319
>Pix dominate South america
no latinx has ever mentioned it.

>>716342391
Its like water, you dont even need to mention it anymore because its needed in everyday lives

>>716342391
paymant processors arent linux distros, they dont come up in day to day conversations

>>716342525
>>716342586
I'm pretty sure most south amrica except brazil operates on visa or mastercard

>>716342525
better analogy is chicken eggs

>>716342050
oh yeah, digital wallets like wise work too, just needs to be one that accepts it.

>>716328610 (OP)
>switch to crypto?
Crypto is cancer, total cryto nigger death!

>>716328610 (OP)
Which NSFW games are being taken down? I don't see any examples. Are my otome he's at risk?

>>716339018
>he lacks the critical information

All those years spent crying over trannies and blue hairs just to get cucked to death by suits KEKAROOOOO

>>716342820
Itch is literally everything.
Steam is games titled :incest:... so far

>>716328945
Collective action is way more likely to actually affect meaningful change than random isolationist violence.
But then again, telling people who are mad about losing access to their porn games "you should go join a political action group" usually isn't going to convince anyone

>>716341158
Why are you glowies, like this?

>NieR Creator Says that Payment Processors’ Censorship is a Threat to Democracy

https://crazyforanimetrivia.com/nier-creator-censorship-is-a-threat-to-democracy/

>>716329028
Oh no!! Not my movie games and open world slop!!!

>>716330000
sharty puritanism like yours is peak goycattle, all you do is defend every kike action possible and post ugly jewish wojaks

>>716342820
Steam is playing it smart and only starting with the things that people will be hard pressed to take a public stance defending. Itch is way way smaller than steam, and thus more at risk of simply imploding if they go through a rough couple of months, so they're removing everything from search index's, and are reportedly removing some games on a case by case basis.

>>716328945
really funny to see the goycattle conditioning work in the replies
american goycattle brag about the second amendment all the time but they refuse to use it for anything that isn't niggers shooting at each other

>>716341158
I think everybody already had that realization when Luigi's Mansion murdered that CEO

>>716328610 (OP)
Wouldn't surprise me if Valve made their own payment processor.

For burgers, contact your representatives to make sure this bill passes:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/987/text

Section 5:
>(b) Prohibition.—No payment card network, including a subsidiary of a payment card network, may, directly or through any agent, processor, or licensed member of the network, by contract, requirement, condition, penalty, or otherwise, prohibit or inhibit the ability of any person who is in compliance with the law, including section 8 of this Act, to obtain access to services or products of the payment card network because of political or reputational risk considerations.

Dunno about the rest of the bill, but that part is good.

>>716341158
The reality of it is that they're powerful occulists that the average man cannot directly handle on their own.

>>716343178
>Dunno about the rest of the bill,
that's kind if important I'm not blonding supporting something for all i know there's something down there thst gives a loophole out of this

https://www.gameshub.com/news/article/australian-anti-porn-group-collective-shout-escalates-its-war-for-video-game-censorship-2736180/
So the group causing all the problems in Australia

>>716330120
>>chuck magione dead
really? i guess there'll be an episode on nu-king of the hill addressing this.

>>716343505
just a smoke curtain so that the goycattle don't focus on the payment processors

>>716343389
It looks good, but I'm not a lawyer who can really dig into it, that's what I mean.

>Cramer’s legislation is a response to United States banks and financial institutions increasingly using their economic standing to categorically discriminate against legal industries and conservatives. For example, Citigroup instituted a policy in 2018 to withhold project-related financing for coal plants, and in 2020, five of the country’s largest banks announced they would not provide loans or credit to support oil and gas drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, despite explicit congressional authorization. Such exclusionary practices also extend to industries protected by the Second Amendment, with Capital One, among other banks, previously including “ammunitions, firearms, or firearm parts” in the prohibited payments section of its corporate policy manual, and payment services like Apple Pay and PayPal denying their services for transactions involving firearms or ammunition. First Lady Melania Trump and technology companies alike allege banks have debanked them or refused to do business. During his address to the World Economic Forum in January, President Trump highlighted big banks and their discriminatory practices of targeting conservatives.
https://www.cramer.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cramer-reintroduces-fair-access-to-banking-act-to-protect-legal-industries-from-debanking

>>716338884
Mr Chinese speaker, what does it mean when a picture is labeled "touch a fish"

>>716342967
https://youtu.be/87bcPisyTHs?t=59

>>716340426
>thinking the goyim will ever wake up
Ngmi

>>716340741
Seriously pretty face. Crazy spunk and attitude. 10/10. If i wasn't a genocidal racist nazi....

>>716342995
Porn is kike action

>>716328945
Oh yeah, I remember all the sweeping policy changes after that, Im so glad for my free untaxed healthcare thanks to him. It's certainly not a case of musical chairs when the rules are still the same.

>>716338884
China's already pushing wide spread born bans
>b-b-but it's just le gay shit muh slippery slope isn't real
Or some other chink worship cope

>>716344164
you are underage goycattle and soon enough your tranny fed handler will order you to shoot up a school which will end with one death (yours), such is the way of the shartynigger

>>716344394
Porn is bad for you no matter where it's from. Have sex.

>>716343185
I have yet to meet a witch that can outsmart a bullet

>>716343185
I dunno man, three bullets seems to be all it takes.

Mastercard support email:
customer_support@mastercard.com

Visa support email:
askvisa@visa.com

>>716344604
Sex is porn and should be regulated.

>>716344604
6 months from now you will post a manifesto about how much of a jeetcel (involuntarily indian) you are before failing at a fed backed school shooting and blowing your brains out
this all happened btw, this is the fate of every BASED TRAD shartynigger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch_High_School_shooting

>>716344394
>>716345040
Sounds like projection

>>716332064
>normies don't use linux
Fucking pewdiepie runs linux. He recently even made a video about it and told his viewers to consider it too.
And big normalfag tech channels like LTT also have covered it plenty of times.
Linux isn’t le ebin hacker OS sekret club anymore anon

>>716343178
This is a nice gesture but I think this is a very limp wrist answer. Ultimately repealing everything about the PATRIOT Act is what would stop this.
The PATRIOT Act is what COMPELS financial processors to act as law enforcement, a duo-poly certainly doesn't help either.

>>716345040
Keep swiping at imaginary 'teens and gooning instead of doing anything meaningful with your life. I know it's all your frontal cortex is capable of.

>>716328610 (OP)
you know what? good. fucking good. the internet is FUCKED kids are MENTALLY ILL trannies have RUINED EVERYTHING. ban it all. no more instant dopamine buttons, burn it all down, then maybe the world will stop being so fucking shit

>>716328610 (OP)
Multiple approaches:

IDENTIFY exactly WHO, as in names in the companies are responsible for these decisions, as they deserve to face the consequences for this.

STARVE the beast. Reduce utilization of the payment processors that are hostile to you. Not just game purchases. Disrupt operations.

SEARCH for payment methods and processing systems that are unaffected, preferably ones that are robust and don't have a way to rugpull like the credit card companies do.

The more normie types should be visibly protesting.

>>716336086
They're clearly making another run, with pressure now both from the inside from any woke devs on their team AND the outside.

Hey, if they want to really stand up and get noticed, let me buy edgy games with shark cards that Visa and MC won't touch.

>>716328610 (OP)
>we need to censor gooner games!
>we wont get censored because we're heccin LGBT allies
>censorship slippery slope hits them
>GUEYS WHAT DA FUCK HOW DID WE LET THIS HAPPEN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
You get what you fucking deserve. Censorship doesn't work as "rules for the, not for me" it hits EVERYTHING. We've been trying to tell these retards for years but they wouldn't listen.

>>716336409
Considering EU's busybody nature do you expect them to be any better at this than visa/mc?

>>716336086
you think these people give up?

>>716337208
Japan had JCB, but it got killed by, guess who.

>>716345908
sharty lingo used
go kill yourself already

>>716328610 (OP)
This kind of censorship is why crypto is so valuable in the first place

Japan is also looking to get away from using the U.S. payment processors Visa and Mastercard and have actually filed lawsuits against them.
I think Visa and Mastercard are going to find themselves in a much worse position moving forward than they thought they would be trying to jump on these moral crusades.

If I was a conspiracy type of guy...I'd say the deliberate point of this was to make people run towards digital currencies....but the effect seems to be the rest of the world just running away from the U.S. payment processors and setting up their own...
Which I can't imagine makes shareholders happy.

But then again the shareholders are the same people who would want to do all this crazy shit soooo I don't know man whatever.

>>716346232
At this point that's basically just paying for things in cash. No online retailers of note take crypto and the end of the pipeline for things not involving crypto is either visa or mastercard.
What you want is basically not really viable to be a large enough movement to hurt them.
This isn't just some boycott that can be done by simply not patronizing a store or not buying a product brand.

>>716346528
>Which I can't imagine makes shareholders happy
It doesn't. Maybe this will shake the EU awake and force them to create their own payment processor directly under the control of the ECB.

>>716330120
>chuck magione dead
man what the fuck

>>716346493
and how do you know it's sharty lingo?

>>716346478
To be fair Japan will always bow down to the US, not like they have a choice.

>>716346232
>WHO
The US government throwing lawsuits at payment processors if they refuse to censor everything they ask for.
Now what?

>>716346718
What do you mean 'will' - as in future tense?
https://epicompany.eu/
https://wero-wallet.eu/

>>716343142
People use them to defend themselves and their families every day, mostly from brown people, you jealous faggot. Maybe if you ask nicely, your mommy government will let you have a pocket knife lmao

>>716347028
I live in Europe, my country is part of the EU, I have never seen or heard of those two.

>>716347162
>goycattle roleplaying
grim

>>716347163
They're in early rollout phase with pilots in Belgium, Germany and Luxembourg.
Coming to the Netherlands early 2026.

Actually - it's a scale-out of the Dutch iDeal system.
The whole thing sits on top of basic SEPA direct bank transfers. Which afaik already features neutrality in transaction-handling; legally requiring it to be non-discriminatory. (Basically what the new draft banking act in the US aims to achieve over there as well.)

>>716346528
>If I was a conspiracy type of guy...I'd say the deliberate point of this was to make people run towards digital currencies....but the effect seems to be the rest of the world just running away from the U.S. payment processors and setting up their own...

I'd say it's a ploy to effectively destroy the USA because it's no longer useful in any capacity, and any US bootyblasted horseshit of HURR WE NUKE YOU IF YOU NO TRADE is undercut by the fact that Israel can, has, does, and continues to sell US military secrets to China.
Nukes aren't effective when everyone knows which launch sites to bomb.

>>716339191
Maxxed

>>716347458
Neat. We get a payment processor and what will most likely be cyberpunk dystopia cred sticks filled with digital euros, when that releases next year.

>>716347458
I thought you guy were gonna take up PIX

>>716347623
Possibly. But I'd imagine a destroyed and abandoned U.S. is a far more dangerous animal than a prosperous one.

>>716347458
Only thing I can find of wero wallet is AI voiced videos.

>>716347623
Nah chinks won't have them. Japs are still operating on a WW2 view of jewery. The only other powers in the region are Muslim, so good luck with that.

>>716347283
Projection. Stay inside, coward.

>censoring speech
>I sleep
>censor porn games
>pic

GOONER TROONERS ASSEMBLE!!!

>>716341158
this post is illegal in texas
>>716342931
this is probably someone actually paid to post here

>mfw my games are highly successful with 90%+ ratings
>mfw my games are not weebshit coomer degenerate garbage and will never get censored
>mfw degenerate weeb coomers shitting and pissing themselves over their favorite goonslop getting rightfully censored
GOOD RIDDANCE HAHAHAHA

>>716348406
A mix of the worst of Africa and India can't be that dangerous for anyone but themselves

>>716345040
Ain't that the second one?

>>716329028
>>716329225 >>716329854 >>716330004 >>716334473 >>716336086 >>716342975
they'll never go after GTA, too many normalfags will revolt

>we got gta banned before gta

>>716348821
Reminder that they're going after the sharty next

>>716348821
you haven't made a single game

>>716348890
GTA got a lot of shit from boomers during the PS2 era, but it'll never be politically acceptable to upset financially successful and affluent entities in the US.

I say hit back and use the same tactics to target Visa at the publishers of the taboo smut romance books that women love

>>716348916
cope

>>716349038
>going after the maxwell family
good luck lol

you're not going to overturn obscenity laws or force Visa to expose themselves to liability for selling illegal materials

your best recourse is pursuing alternative fin-tech infrastructures and underground work arounds

this shit's in a don't ask don't tell grey area til someone with a platform calls the cops and forces compliance

>>716338793
dlsite already got fucked by them first, you retard.

Once this one anon's beef with the sharty?

>>716328610 (OP)
Why are niggers picking this retarded ass faggot shit troon game as a hill to die on when it comes to mastercard and visa literally controlling the world when they literally fucking stopped working with russians when the war broke out.
Imagine being some russian in bumfuck nowhere and now you are banned from the rest of the world because your retarded leader attacked another shithole nation so fucking AMERICAN COMPANIES just CRIPPLE you and your country with 2 clicks
Fucking dystopia, not even cyberpunk novels are this fucking dark.

>>716348710
It's hilarious this guy has a wife and kids while drawing so much hate from unwed internet tradcons who masturbate to anime.

>>716332064
I'm retarded as fuck and I can play almost everything I want on Linux. Literally as easily as on Windows too.

>>716340380
What are they gonna do about it? Send a small army of cia niggers to stage a coup? Probably.

>>716349356
yes this is emblematic of the crippling hegemonic power of US sanctions to break countries and individuals and why alternatives outside the west are being developed

I think at this point I will just stop spending on games in general.

>>716330120
Dont worry, Trump is the next after releasing his friend files.

>>716338528
Can't wait for you to starve to death faggot

>>716328610 (OP)
>is it time to find alternative options, or even finally switch to crypto?
Steam tried accepting Bitcoin in 2016. After 1 year, they stopped.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail/1464096684955433613
>As of today, Steam will no longer support Bitcoin as a payment method on our platform due to high fees and volatility in the value of Bitcoin.

>transaction fees that are charged to the customer by the Bitcoin network have skyrocketed this year, topping out at close to $20 a transaction last week (compared to roughly $0.20 when we initially enabled Bitcoin).

>Historically, the value of Bitcoin has been volatile, but the degree of volatility has become extreme in the last few months, losing as much as 25% in value over a period of days. This creates a problem for customers trying to purchase games with Bitcoin. When checking out on Steam, a customer will transfer x amount of Bitcoin for the cost of the game, plus y amount of Bitcoin to cover the transaction fee charged by the Bitcoin network. The value of Bitcoin is only guaranteed for a certain period of time so if the transaction doesn’t complete within that window of time, then the amount of Bitcoin needed to cover the transaction can change. The amount it can change has been increasing recently to a point where it can be significantly different.

>The normal resolution for this is to either refund the original payment to the user, or ask the user to transfer additional funds to cover the remaining balance. In both these cases, the user is hit with the Bitcoin network transaction fee again. This year, we’ve seen increasing number of customers get into this state. With the transaction fee being so high right now, it is not feasible to refund or ask the customer to transfer the missing balance (which itself runs the risk of underpayment again, depending on how much the value of Bitcoin changes while the Bitcoin network processes the additional transfer).

>>716349356
Nations all over the world have noticed this and are starting to invest in their own payment processors and software and whatever else that is critical and that could be shut down remotely, even the ones who are still chummy with the great satan are doing it.

>>716329028
Honestly
Accelerate

>>716330357
Holy shit
I fucking love these nigger Jews now
Let them torture the nigger cattle as it fucking rightfully deserves
It's because of them the Jews have so much power in the first place

>>716346974
Exactly who in the US goverment? Names and offices. They have superiors. They report to elected officials SOMEWHERE In the chain.

They should be famous right now. They should have every action of theirs under a microscope as well, because that's what the're demanding of everyone else.

>>716330474
He's right tho

>>716334462
Lol no

>>716349038
>Azula

is that what I think it is

>>716342931
Is he fucking wrong though?
Answer me faggot?

>>716349763
they could pivot to USD coin. Stable coin that is always = 1 dollar.
But nobody really knows about that. They know about bitcoin.
and now you're asking your customers to sign up to coinbase to make it happen.

>>716349356
The U.S. thought it could make a finance only empire. I guess they didn't realize that finance itself can more easily be replicated and replaced than manufacturing and actual product production....which the U.S. already threw away.

>>716346478
What? I was planning to get a JCB card, what happened

>>716350096
well the Visa/Pornhub Mindgeek suit was brought by victims. the liability for stuff like these games would be pursued by state attorney generals (like who instated the age verification laws that are part of this) and Department of Justice for violation of obscenity laws, which I wouldn't put it past this administration in the current political climate hence the proactive compliance we're seeing now

>>716342908
The problem is collective action requires the general population to give a shit. I can't even get people around me to set aside 20 minutes to vote in their municipal elections once a year. What makes you think I'd have better luck getting people to support a cause that isn't directly effecting them yet?

>>716350402
Remember Steam only tested Bitcoin in 2017. I've also heard the transaction fees are much lower for crypto now compared to 2017, but I don't know if that's true. I don't know anything about crypto.

>>716333975
>>716334536
I can see why crypto can't take off, because we have fucking retards like this who say stupid shit like "crypto cratered reputation", or "crypto is like gambling" because anyone can make a cryptocoin.

The average normalfag is a fucking retard and they have to be forced into using LTC to realize how good it is.

>>716334389
I'm conflicted. As an American I recognize USD losing reserve currency status means my quality of life goes down dramatically overnight. At the same time I hate just about everyone involved in my country's political and financial upper eschelon.

>>716328610 (OP)
Wouldn't a way around it is to setup a thing where people pay for something like a key or etc and having the game on separate platform or whatever that's free to download that can be activated by said key?
Surely the payment processors can't do jackshit about that without just banning everything right?
It's a key or something, there's nothing nsfw about it. So surely it would get around that bullshit right?

>>716350624
I moved like 25k and had to pay 400~ in transaction fees for bitcoin.
sooo like what...1.6% or so.
so like 2 dollars on an 80 dollar purchase now?

then again I haven't tried to use bitcoin for small amounts of money. The percentages could be lower the higher you go.

>>716339212
Bring it to Russia so we can dodge sanctions, i dare you.

>>716349763
BTC is just one option. With their resources, they could launch their own Steam Token.

>>716332185
Can't wait for the Deck 2, going to get that and a Switch 2.

>Try to start using crypto
>Website demands facial scan to verify account
And you expect normals to use this to purchase videogames?

>>716352367
Let me guess, it's an exchange KYC issue, not a crypto issue.

>>716350624
It depends on the coin. Some are really cheap to transfer, BTC is notoriously expensive.

>>716352103
Tell putin to use it

>>716352492
kyc issues are crypto issues.

>>716352764
technically false but functionally true

>>716343185
>not becoming a chaos magician yourself to negate the protective field of whatever ruinous power these rich assholes have ascribed themselves to
It's difficult but with enough practice one could conceivably become spiritually adept enough to bypass their defenses. At the very least, a couple sigils on a bullet would help.

>use crypto bro it's the future
>you just have to upload your real ID, facial verification, real address
>and the value of crypto is tied to fiat anyway
>also the crypto exchanges can refuse to withdraw your money for zero reason
:^)
wow epic

>>716328610 (OP)
crypto is still a meme

>>716354141
like milhouse

>>716342060
>They're based on the USD
Then how are they any different from a debit?

>>716354479
They aren't.

>>716353451
the most effective magic is direct physical magic.

>>716330357
>>716332108
>>716350000
>Ban GTA6
I take back everything. Please. /gcj/, or Reset Era, or Project 25, or satanic baby eating lizards or whatever the fuck... Please make this happen. This is all I ever wanted. The levels of fun I would have reading the drama if this were to happen would be greater than all the games that had came out in the past 30 years combined. I promise I will be a good boy and sign up for anything you want me to if you make this happen.

>>716350232
>fire in the background
kek, it has to be

>>716355982
If that happens, the shitstorm would definitely cause government involvement.

>>716356231
It would be a win-win for everyone.

>>716330218
>Maybe next time don't brag about the speakeasy,
>ToT UUUUUOOOOOHHH
i have zero sympathy.

>>716328610 (OP)
A reminder that lefties spent years waging war against beauty and sexuality in video games before they decided they're in favor of it and the right were the ones pushing censorship
Never forget history

>>716356876
yeah the right is also trying to ban pron outright,so as far as im concerned you are both snakes.

>>716356876
I didn't, I've been constantly reminding them in these threads.

>>716328610 (OP)
Blackrock controls your crypto, and no, you can't say "I will just use the crypto they don't have" because you, being peasant cattle, don't know what they do and don't have investments in. Any crypto that gains any substantial traction is logically getting bought up by these entities or being manufactured and pushed by them in the first place, and thus you end up just being a gullible idiot at the whims of their pumping and dumping. Bitcoin was always a spook operation, no reason to believe other crypto like Ethereum or Monero and etc werent/aren't either. They are not invulnerable to the lions share of supply being acquired by Blackrock types regardless, thus putting the market at their mercy.

>>716354942
True, but considering you aren't likely able to get close enough to actually use said magic sigils and ranged weaponry is your next best bet

>>716328610 (OP)
Nobody is going to use crypto because crypto itself shot itself in the foot.
It's null as a payment method for most things.
There are 3 types of cryptos the way I see it:
Cryptos that you'd be an idiot to use to pay because they are far more useful as a store of value. I'm not paying 0.0006 BTC to buy a game, sorry
Cryptos that merchants would be idiots to accept (shitcoins)
Crypto that legitimate merchants won't touch because everyone knows their primary purpose is to buy illegal stuff and it would be a PR nightmare

>>716328861
yep

>>716352367
>Using an exchange

You do realize that normalfags already do the exact same with banks so why should that stop them?

>>716353932
>>716354141
>>716357069
More anti-crypto retards. Whats funny is that the eternal whiners, the moment crypto takes precedence and these retards have to be forced to adopt it, they will start spewing different arguments instead of these stupid ones about how "blackrock will just buoy up all crypot and manufacture them" into

>hur dur Satoshi Nakamoto was actually the CIA
>Monero is actually a glowie operation

>>716357215
It is funny how /v/ talking about crypto sound like fucking boomers, half their talking points are objectively wrong and outdated.

>>716330357
>VISA/Mastercard will effectively ban GTA6 two days from launch and bankrupt Take Two.
Wtf i love jews now

>>716357215
>Cryptos that you'd be an idiot to use to pay because they are far more useful as a store of value.

Currency is meant to be a store of value otherwise, why even have saving accounts, do you spend all your cash immediately? I mean, the purpose of inflation is that you force yourself to take on debt and spend the cash so.

>Cryptos that merchants would be idiots to accept (shitcoins)

Good thing you have choices and anyone can make a crypto then.

>Crypto that legitimate merchants won't touch because everyone knows their primary purpose is to buy illegal stuff and it would be a PR nightmare

As opposed to cash or credit cards. These have never been used to buy illegal stuff.

>>716356946
Oh absolutely. The right had a chance to prove they learned why everyone hated them in the mid 2000s, and immediately proved they haven't learned shit. I'm just getting annoyed at the leftists who were peddling "harm theory" now trying to act like they were paragons of artistic expression and free speech.

>>716333641
Nothing genuine will happen outside of a potential false flag stunt response, as this is a red herring scenario concocted by the CIA, MI6 and Mossad in Gladio ops, so only their Nazis are going to flip out while wearing a keffiyeh prop so as to manufacture consent for the evil Satanic shit that the west and Israel does in the middle east.

Payment processors don't like loli/shota, non-con, live-action porn, beastiality+furry and hypnosis. This is nothing new and it's weird how Steam didn't know that.

>>716357393
>cattle unaware that he is cattle
>cattle unaware that actual money value is backed by arms, not artificial scaricity or precious metals, even precious metals only gained value via military backing.
https://www.theblock.co/post/363204/nasdaq-submits-sec-filing-to-add-staking-to-blackrocks-etha-ethereum-etf

>>716328610 (OP)
Pix. It's a br monkey thing, but it's so good that it's gaining some adoption in a few other countries. It still lacks support to installment payments, but this is coming this September.

>>716358401
I think most people would agree that it shouldn't matter what they like. Their services are the bedrock of digital commerce. Quite honestly a service as integral as that should be a utility, but the fact they operate globally makes that practically impossible.

>>716359287
I'm glad this solution might work for the rest of the world, but it's going to be basically impossible to get this implemented in the US. The banks would need to support it, and most of them are cozy with Visa and MasterCard

>>716359287
Installment payments are a fucking scam for anything except items you'd never be able to afford a lump sum for, like a house. The Internet keeps trying to get me to buy pizza under an installment plan.

>>716359594
The big thing that made them popular was that installment payments used to not show up on credit reports, so people could go into debt without hurting their credit rating. Now the major credit bureaus are changing that, so expect the option to go out of favor soon.

>>716358027
The problem is how the realities of democrat vs republican has been mislabeled as liberal vs conservative when both parties are actually conservative as fuck, and how every left-of-center group under the sun is lumped together as "liberals" as though they were a unified front

Simple fact is, artistic freedom is a progressive ideal, not specifically liberal, and while censorship is generally conservative, it can obviously be pursued by anyone for any reason. In this specific instance, it is christian radicals who simply want anything sexual to be banned, and they're started by targeting low-hanging fruit. Third-wave feminists specifically want porn and prostitution banned but it's because of a very extreme interpretation of what constitutes patriarchy and does not align with what these christians want at all. No one aligns with third-wave feminists, but republicans specifically have chosen to align with christian radicals because they are a very dedicated voting block and they need every vote they can get.

>>716360178
>No one aligns with third-wave feminists
Corporate America aligns with them. Their rhetoric provides a popular cover to sanitize anything companies could potentially see as a brand risk. It is parroted by C-Suite executives, and paraded around in advertising. That alone I wouldn't blame the left for, but the problem comes in their defense of it. When anyone tries to push back on the corporate bullshit, there is a flood of people with flags in their names and various causes in their bios rushing to defend these companies decisions on the basis of intersectionality. That they must stand in solidarity with feminist rhetoric lest their enemies chip away at a cause they care about. These people are useful idiots to the corporations they defend, but their actions cause a chilling effect which discourages pushback, further enabling the push for a sanitized media landscape.

>>716328610 (OP)
If you don't like it, create your own payment processor.

>>716361636
Even the richest man on the planet is having a hard time doing that shit

>>716361636
You can't without the support of the banks, and every bank is aligned with Visa and MasterCard. Good luck upending that relationship on any timescale that matters

>>716360178
>everyone that doesn't fit my specific brand of liberalism is not a true progressive liberal!

lefties never change haha

>>716361636
>>716361735
In the US I mean. Countries like Brazil are already working on their own

>>716328610 (OP)
SEE
This is what happens when you make stuff available for normalfags. THEY FUCKING RUIN IT FOR EVERYONE ELSE
porn games should never have been "officially" released on normalfag platforms. Anybody who paid for porn games on these platforms is to blame for this faggotry.

I hope the world burns.

>>716361801
It's already been happening to the Japanese for years, and it hit Patreon back in 2022 too. Obscurity won't save you, better to fight the problem head on

>>716361776
kys

>>716361939
You first

I hate moral busybodies so much.
Why can't they all just fuck off and die??

>>716343178
The massive red flag is the very people who are putting this bill forward are the same people who passed ID laws that forced content sellers to block any state they're in creating a defacto ban.
The fact shills like >>716343389 want you to support it is dangerously short sighted and will cause much more damage then help since the one section people agree on isn't a free standing bill.

>>716329028
>they're going after shit like detroit and GTA too
Imagine the blowback from that.

>>716330357
>At this rate, VISA/Mastercard will effectively ban GTA6 two days from launch and bankrupt Take Two.
Friendly fire will not be tolerated

>>716328610 (OP)
Japan already put restrictions on them and I think fined them as well.

>>716328945
No-one even knows or cares who owned Visa/Mastercard though. They're too powerful. Remember they've been scraping 2.5% off of the value of EVERY transaction for decades now.
Surprised that Paypal isnt being the good guy, isnt it owned by Elon Musk? I thought he'd be all over capitalising on this drama.

>>716339871
This but unironically. Japan will probably do something crazy like just cut off Visa and Mastercard from Japan completely and release their own version.
Remember Japan only recently got credit cards and debit cards like around covid. They still do everything in cash over there and you cant use cards anywhere except at ATMs and hotels. Applying for a credit card in Japan is so difficult that most people dont even bother with getting one and the way they do their banking is pretty archaic.

>>716364581
It used to be owned by Elon Musk. He sold it nearly 2 decades ago to fund Tesla. They were also one of the first payment processors to pull this type of shit, way before either Visa or MasterCard

>>716364735
Reckon he'll ever just make Paypal 2 and tie it into Twitter or something? Surprised he hasnt done it already.

>your choices are between different flavors of authoritarians
>there's also this middleman who does whatever the fuck it wants regardless of the law
>you will also have to battle retards every step of the way
this shit is fucked and will never improve

>>716364810
He could try, but his reputation isn't in the greatest spot right now. There's be whole companies refusing to accept his network on principle, and that's before the pressure from Visa or MasterCard comes in

>>716357223
But only two are those are doable. The third one can't be undone. ;_;