The New Era of Internet Censorship: Corporate & Government Gatekeeping
REMINDER.
We now know who the true mastermind is now for the payment processor pressure campaign against anime, violent games and porn in the US is. The conservative christian run group Collective Shout is just a cover for Russ Vought, a co-writer for Project 2025, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, AND Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
This man has already publicly stated his desire to have pornographic content, violent video games, and other types of content "harmful to children", banned from the internet.
In a two minute clip posted on YouTube by The Intercept the following transcript, highlighted in yellow, shows his intended starting point (start with children), and then he cuts himself off from explaining the next part of the plan, of violent video games, etc, as that route had failed twice already in the past few decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0noIS9lmR0Y
Now, in his position in the CFPB, Russ Vought has ultimate authority over payment providers and banks, and he has likely been abusing this power to strong-arm changes in these privately owned businesses regarding content he specifically had shown his distaste and hatred towards previously. All clearly telegraphed before hand, many years ago.
The rest of the world has their own problems, but in America? The issue lies with Project 2025 and the fact Russ Vought has not been removed from power.
We now know who the true mastermind is now for the payment processor pressure campaign against anime, violent games and porn in the US is. The conservative christian run group Collective Shout is just a cover for Russ Vought, a co-writer for Project 2025, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, AND Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
This man has already publicly stated his desire to have pornographic content, violent video games, and other types of content "harmful to children", banned from the internet.
In a two minute clip posted on YouTube by The Intercept the following transcript, highlighted in yellow, shows his intended starting point (start with children), and then he cuts himself off from explaining the next part of the plan, of violent video games, etc, as that route had failed twice already in the past few decades.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0noIS9lmR0Y
Now, in his position in the CFPB, Russ Vought has ultimate authority over payment providers and banks, and he has likely been abusing this power to strong-arm changes in these privately owned businesses regarding content he specifically had shown his distaste and hatred towards previously. All clearly telegraphed before hand, many years ago.
The rest of the world has their own problems, but in America? The issue lies with Project 2025 and the fact Russ Vought has not been removed from power.