#payment processing

[pomegranateteeth]

We're being strangled by censorship.... what now?

UPDATE: Current target priorities are PayPal and Stripe alongside Visa and MasterCard. Call to send physical letters increases - How to send letters!

I'm making my own post for this. I have been talking a lot about the censorship of payment processors and the recent banning of NSFW/queer/taboo content on itch.io and steam. I want to scream as an artist witnessing the growing meddling of payment processors as they strangle out the art that we are aloud to make and profit off of. Here I have linked the resources am personally utilizing and I think are the most to the point and well organized.

Resources

Stop Pay-Pros

BEST LINK TO SHARE. This site resources are very well organized and have scripts to follow and utilize and continuously updated numbers to call. UPDATE: Now has what to do if you get yelled at by customer service + new info for both what to do and who to call. Last update 8/1

Yellat.money

Lots of helpful contact information, additional resource, and source information. Includes information for letter writing. Last updated 7/31

Petitions

ACLU - Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy - 159k~ of 200k needed Change.org - Tell MasterCard, Visa & Activist Groups: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play US Only - Reject online censorship. Tell lawmakers to oppose KOSA! UK Only - Repeal the Online Safety Act UK Only - Sign the open letter to DSIT on regulating age assurance

What can you do as a creative to keep afloat?

I found this article to be extremely helpful on what to do in the meantime to keep selling your work as an independent artist online. This is mostly for my indie pub and visual artists who are selling PDF and Epub type digital files.

Updates on what itch.io is doing! - SECOND UPDATE FROM ITCH.IO - Response from Valve

[ao3cassandraic]

let's gooooooooooo

fuck em up gang

[samualjennings]

I know not everyone can, but I encourage anyone who is willing and able to be a part of this calling campaign, or at least to spread this handy leaflet around!

Freedom of Expression means all forms of expression, even if they're uncomfortable to some people, and in the long run this targets a lot more than just controversial adult content.

What's more, even of not explicitly stated, it's already heavily targeting the furry and LGBT+ communities!

We need to draw the line in the sand. Payment processors don't get to dictate what we can or cannot buy or sell with our own money!

[dervampireprince]

Steam, Itch.io and the banning of explicit and LGBT+ Content. What can we do?

[All images in this post have alt/id text if you need it or want to copy paste anything]

With no warning, Itch.io, a site where many host their indie games, comics, books and more, has started purging and shadowbanning explicit and LGBT+ works. Creators got no warning. And if they were still owed payouts from these works, Itch.io is saying they won't give them their money as they 'broke the rules'. Rules that were only just set in place, with no warning, and therefore no way for creators to try and draw out their money or delete these 'offending' works before they got banned under the new rules.

So Itch.io has been the most recent to fall to the demands of a group that's been contacting Visa and Mastercard and convincing them to threaten sites/businesses with 'stop selling what we consider to be explicit content on your sites of we'll stop allowing your site to have transactions with Visa and Mastercard'. Steam folded, and now Itchio has too. And a reminder earlier this year Gumroad also stopped allowing explicit content, further back than that Patreon banned some kinks and fetishes even if it's depicted in fiction not real life, and I don't have to explain to you guys the great Tumblr explicit content ban of 2018.

And as always remember this doesn't stop with sexually explicit work as LGBT+ stories and people are often labelled as explicit and already we're seeing works being taken off Itch.io that are about LGBT+ and especially trans stories. Other non-sexually explicit works I've seen already getting shadowbanned, delisted or deleted are SFW games featuring furries/anthros, SFW dress up games (because when you take the clothes the model is nude), and the aforementioned SFW games that include LGBT+ characters and stories.

I'm compiling here information I've seen around various social medias, mostly Bluesky, because I haven't seen all these things shared over here.

I don't personally have explicit content on itch, but I had been considering one day selling things on there and I do currently have explicit content on my Patreon, my main source of income, and am terrified that Patreon is going to fold next (if anyone knows alterative for hosting audio content behind a paid subscription service please let me know so I can start maybe making a back-up in case the worst happens). Because for me personally if Patreon goes next, it's not like I can go out and easily get another job. Not only because in general finding and getting a job is difficult enough, but I'm autistic and have chronic pain and have been constantly getting sick or new pains over the last few years and don't feel safe being trans in the UK right now and all of that combined rules me out of a lot of jobs and makes me feel unsafe to apply to any. I'm so grateful I've been able to make a community around my work, but if Patreon caves next and I just leave my SFW posts on Patreon... 10% of my Patreons are signed up to the SFW tier, 90% are signed up to the explicit tier... I know if Patreon caves I will go from someone living comfortably who's searching to move out of my parents so I can live in a safer environment to someone who can no longer even afford the rent I pay to my parents. I'll try and get an alterative found and set up in case that happens and I can only hope you guys will follow me to whatever other site I have to set up... but it feels unlikely that people will get a whole new account on a whole new payment provider just to support me on a website they might never have heard of...

But what can we do right now?

A petition you can sign (international but you do have to give your name, email, and postal/zip code):

Get calling:

Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372

MasterCard (UK): 0800 964 767

Mastercard (International.): +1-636-722-7111

Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911 / 1-800-VISA-911

Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440

Visa (UK) : 0800 891 725 or use their international call collect +1 303 967 1096

Visa (International): (call collect - it costs them $): +1-303-967-1096

PayPal (US): 1-888-221-1161

PayPal (UK): 0800 358 7911 from landline, +44 203 901 7000 mobile

PayPal (International): 1-402-935-2050

(numbers gathered from these posts X X X )

Don't know what to say on the phone? Here's a script written by timidtanuki:

Creators have had their work removed off Itch.io with no warning and since it's been removed for 'breaking the rules' (rules that were suddenly in place with no warning) they aren't entitled to get their payouts. Just like other sites such as Youtube and Twitch and Etsy, Itch.io hold onto money from their users in a wallet and then give them payouts. So there is money creators have made, are owed, that Itch.io is not giving to them.

People are recommending that if you still have works on Itch.io to turn down the revenue sharing to 0% so that Itch.io no longer takes a cut or your money if you no longer want to support Itchi.io finically but don't want to remove your works from their platform. X

Other Bluesky posts and calls to action I've seen:

radiantg.bsky.social is asking for anyone on Itch.io who got their game deindexed, removed , or payouts turned off to reach out to them (espeically if you make explicit and/or LGBT+ games) for a piece of journalism about what is happening.

sleepyhart.bsky.social is making a thread of all the games that Itch.io has censored/removed from their site search function. Obviously be aware this will include 18+ only games, games with sexual content and other dark or heavy themes.

thetransfemininereview.com wants you to reach out to them if you're a trans creator on Itch.io who is being affected by this so they can make an accurate report. they say 'authors' in their post and I'm unsure if they also want game devs to reach out.

dropdownbear.bsky.com wants you to reach out if you have purchased things on Itch.io that you can now no longer access because of this ban. they can include them in a report being filed with the Australian Consumer Commission as this may be a violation of Australian Consumer rights. If you are Australian you can no longer access things you purchased of Itch.io you can report directly with this guide.

It's a scary time for adult creators and sex workers. It's a scary time to be trans. Support creators. And if anyone knows of any alternate payment providers that allow explicit work, and/or alternate websites to Itch (and in case things get worse, also give me Patreon alternates please) where people can host, sell and/or offer paid subscriptions to writing, images, videos, audios, games and more please leave them in the replies. And please help share this post, the posts I'm linking too, and any other resources you can find.

EDIT: here's a part two of more resources, wasn't much point in adding them to this post when editing a post only changes it on my blog and not on any reblogs. which also means most people won't see this edit either, but i figured i'd but it in here in case because it does change it on your 'liked' version of the post so if anyone was saving the post for later in your likes you might see this edit.

[animentality]

[simpossible]

Honestly, I’m seriously looking into what the hell is going on with itch.io right now, because what’s happening is beyond fucked up.

And then they have the audacity to drop this line:

This is a time critical moment for itch.io. The situation developed rapidly, and we had to act urgently to protect the platform’s core payment infrastructure

What gets me the most is that you’re not just deleting games. YOU'RE REFUSING TO PAY CREATORS WHAT THEY ALREADY EARNED, because YOU changed the rules OVERNIGHT and decided their work was suddenly unacceptable.

You fucking robbed your own creators. Some of whom depended on that income to survive. You pulled the rug under their feet and called it urgent action? Get real, bitch. I hope creators and the community walk the fuck away to better alternatives and never look back. You don’t deserve their loyalty. You don’t deserve their art. And you sure as hell don’t deserve their silence.

[scientistservant]

This is why I'm very anti-censorship. This is absolutely ridiculous and it's very clear this kind of thing is just about control.

This censorship needs to stop.

[q4os-tde-official]

Itch.io has just been hit by the same overreaching content bans that steam was forced to implement by payment processors, this is bullshit.

MasterCard shouldn't be able to tell you or i what we can and can't buy with our own fucking money on a platform that they do not own.

this FICTIONAL CONTENT isn't illegal, it has every right to be on Itch or Steam, meanwhile payment processors have zero right to ban fully legal content from being sold by third parties, regardless of the opinions of those in charge on the content of these games.

this is yet another form of censorship, and its reach will only get broader, first "problematic" fiction, then queer fiction, then anything deemed "NSFW", real or fictional (which by then won't just mean violence or porn).

it is a censorship of ideas, under the guise of moral puritanism, and allows just a small group of people (e.g. Collective Shout) to control what is and isn't allowed on the commercial internet.

this content is not illegal, it harms nobody (as it is, get this, NOT REAL), and follows both Itch and Valve's pre-processor rules on game content, it should not have been removed, and we cannot sit silently and allow censorship of "problematic content" to become acceptable.

Sign the petition.

[pomegranateteeth]

I'm sure other people have shared this but i really hope this pans out. that all being said i think this being the catalysis for us getting up payment processors asses has been a net positive. i really hope people keep pushing. from what i've seen ppl saying on bluesky it dose feel like there is a growing frustration on their end. i really hope we can revers some of the puritanical bs that's been shoved on us.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Fintech bullies stole your kid’s lunch money

I'm coming to DEFCON! On Aug 9, I'm emceeing the EFF POKER TOURNAMENT (noon at the Horseshoe Poker Room), and appearing on the BRICKED AND ABANDONED panel (5PM, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01). On Aug 10, I'm giving a keynote called "DISENSHITTIFY OR DIE! How hackers can seize the means of computation and build a new, good internet that is hardened against our asshole bosses' insatiable horniness for enshittification" (noon, LVCC - L1 - HW1–11–01).

Three companies control the market for school lunch payments. They take as much as 60 cents out of every dollar poor kids' parents put into the system to the tune of $100m/year. They're literally stealing poor kids' lunch money.

In its latest report, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau describes this scam in eye-watering, blood-boiling detail:

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_costs-of-electronic-payment-in-k-12-schools-issue-spotlight_2024-07.pdf

The report samples 16.7m K-12 students in 25k schools. It finds that schools are racing to go cashless, with 87% contracting with payment processors to handle cafeteria transactions. Three processors dominate the sector: Myschoolbucks, Schoolcafé, and Linq Connect.

These aren't credit card processors (most students don't have credit cards). Instead, they let kids set up an account, like a prison commissary account, that their families load up with cash. And, as with prison commissary accounts, every time a loved one adds cash to the account, the processor takes a giant whack out of them with junk fees:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/14/minnesota-nice/#shitty-technology-adoption-curve

If you're the parent of a kid who is eligible for a reduced-price lunch (that is, if you are poor), then about 60% of the money you put into your kid's account is gobbled up by these payment processors in service charges.

It's expensive to be poor, and this is no exception. If your kid doesn't qualify for the lunch subsidy, you're only paying about 8% in service charges (which is still triple the rate charged by credit card companies for payment processing).

The disparity is down to how these charges are calculated. The payment processors charge a flat fee for every top-up, and poor families can't afford to minimize these fees by making a single payment at the start of the year or semester. Instead, they pay small sums every payday, meaning they pay the fee twice per month (or even more frequently).

Not only is the sector concentrated into three companies, neither school districts nor parents have any meaningful way to shop around. For school districts, payment processing is usually bundled in with other school services, like student data management and HR data handling. For parents, there's no way to choose a different payment processor – you have to go with the one the school district has chosen.

This is all illegal. The USDA – which provides and regulates – the reduced cost lunch program, bans schools from charging fees to receive its meals. Under USDA regs, schools must allow kids to pay cash, or to top up their accounts with cash at the school, without any fees. The USDA has repeatedly (2014, 2017) published these rules.

Despite this, many schools refuse to handle cash, citing safety and security, and even when schools do accept cash or checks, they often fail to advertise this fact.

The USDA also requires schools to publish the fees charged by processors, but most of the districts in the study violate this requirement. Where schools do publish fees, we see a per-transaction charge of up to $3.25 for an ACH transfer that costs $0.26-0.50, or 4.58% for a debit/credit-card transaction that costs 1.5%. On top of this, many payment processors charge a one-time fee to enroll a student in the program and "convenience fees" to transfer funds between siblings' accounts. They also set maximum fees that make it hard to avoid paying multiple charges through the year.

These are classic junk fees. As Matt Stoller puts it: "'Convenience fees' that aren't convenient and 'service fees' without any service." Another way in which these fit the definition of junk fees: they are calculated at the end of the transaction, and not advertised up front.

Like all junk fee companies, school payment processors make it extremely hard to cancel an automatic recurring payment, and have innumerable hurdles to getting a refund, which takes an age to arrive.

Now, there are many agencies that could have compiled this report (the USDA, for one), and it could just as easily have come from an academic or a journalist. But it didn't – it came from the CFPB, and that matters, because the CFPB has the means, motive and opportunity to do something about this.

The CFPB has emerged as a powerhouse of a regulator, doing things that materially and profoundly benefit average Americans. During the lockdowns, they were the ones who took on scumbag landlords who violated the ban on evictions:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cfpb

They went after "Earned Wage Access" programs where your boss colludes with payday lenders to trap you in debt at 300% APR:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usury/#tech-exceptionalism

They are forcing the banks to let you move your account (along with all your payment history, stored payees, automatic payments, etc) with one click – and they're standing up a site that will analyze your account data and tell you which bank will give you the best deal:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/21/let-my-dollars-go/#personal-financial-data-rights

They're going after "buy now, pay later" companies that flout borrower protection rules, making a rogues' gallery of repeat corporate criminals, banning fine-print gotcha clauses, and they're doing it all in the wake of a 7-2 Supreme Court decision that affirmed their power to do so:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/10/getting-things-done/#deliverism

The CFPB can – and will – do something to protect America's poorest parents from having $100m of their kids' lunch money stolen by three giant fintech companies. But whether they'll continue to do so under a Kamala Harris administration is an open question. While Harris has repeatedly talked up the ways that Biden's CFPB, the DOJ Antitrust Division, and FTC have gone after corporate abuses, some of her largest donors are demanding that her administration fire the heads of these agencies and crush their agenda:

https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-26-corporate-wishcasting-attack-lina-khan/

Tens of millions of dollars have been donated to Harris' campaign and PACs that support her by billionaires like Reid Hoffman, who says that FTC Chair Lina Khan is "waging war on American business":

https://prospect.org/power/2024-07-26-corporate-wishcasting-attack-lina-khan/

Some of the richest Democrat donors told the Financial Times that their donations were contingent on Harris firing Khan and that they'd been assured this would happen:

https://archive.is/k7tUY

This would be a disaster – for America, and for Harris's election prospects – and one hopes that Harris and her advisors know it. Writing in his "How Things Work" newsletter today, Hamilton Nolan makes the case that labor unions should publicly declare that they support the FTC, the CFPB and the DOJ's antitrust efforts:

https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/unions-and-antitrust-are-peanut-butter

Don’t want huge companies and their idiot billionaire bosses to run the world? Break them up, and unionize them. It’s the best program we have.

Perhaps you've heard that antitrust is anti-worker. It's true that antitrust law has been used to attack labor organizing, but that has always been in spite of the letter of the law. Indeed, the legislative history of US antitrust law is Congress repeatedly passing law after law explaining that antitrust "aims at dollars, not men":

https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/14/aiming-at-dollars/#not-men

The Democrats need to be more than The Party of Not Trump. To succeed – as a party and as a force for a future for Americans – they have to be the party that defends us – workers, parents, kids and retirees alike – from corporate predation.

Support me this summer on the Clarion Write-A-Thon and help raise money for the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers' Workshop!

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/26/taanstafl/#stay-hungry

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[dervampireprince]

Hi hello! I wanted to put a link to your post on the whole deal with Visa n Mastercard on my website cause it was very informative and I want other people to see it but I wanted to check first if that'd be alright? Thank you so much for taking the time to put that together regardless!

sure if you think it's a good source, though i'd appreciate it if you made it clear that my blog is 18+ and all my other posts on here are explicit sexual content. some people have gotten angry at me stating that boundary but it's like.. this is a porn blog idk what to say, please don't go browsing my other posts or following me if you're a minor. i didn't think the post i made would make it's way outside of my following hence why i reference my being scared about patreon since a lot of my followers also support me on patreon. didn't expect it to now be at over 10k notes. and while i'm glad it's helping people be more away, if anyone contacted the payment providers or signed petitions based on my post that makes me very happy. it's just a shame that because it's left the nsftumblr side i've got minors trying to send me asks or following me. please don't follow me if you're a minor, this blog is full of explicit sexual content, you not only would be breaking a major boundary of mine but also you know.. it's illegal for me to share sexuality explicit content with you. some people have got angry at me for that boundary and said i'm a hyprocrite for being anti-censorship but having a dni. i don't know how to explain that people can be anti-censorship but have personal boundaries on 'this thing is allowed to exist i just don't want to see it' and not wanting minors to follow their porn blog as sharing porn with minors is illegal and not something i'm comfortable with. i'm not going to stop people interacting with the last post, or this one, but i'd appreciate it if you didn't start following me or liking/reblogging my other sexual posts, or sending me asks or dms if you're a minor. if i see you doing that you will get blocked. not because i'm 'censoring you' but because this is my blog and that is my personal boundary. personal boundaries and DNIs are not censorship.

also i'd like to link some other stuff you might find helpful, more resources i've found since making the last post:

here's a change.org petition

some scripts to use for phone calls/emails if you don't know what to say (links and alt/id text for copy and pasting are in the images):

phone script by shonen413.itch.io

email/online contact script by caradelaney.bsky.social

thread including a lot of info and scripts by voiddebris.bsky.social . it includes an email script, phone numbers, tutorials on how to contact companies and how to navigate their websites, public business contacts of people who work at companies for you to directly contact, how to navigate their phone trees, mailing addresses, how to contact news outlets and reports, a discord server and more.

boneybag.bsky.social is compiling a masterlist of artists who's work has been censored in any way by all of this. you can view the collection and ask to be added to it if your work has been censored, banned, deindexed, etc.

and if you're linking to my masterpost i'd recommend also linking to these places too. voiddebris' thread that's linked above, it's long and full of info that is still being updated and added too. and i would also like you to link to a place that's way better an compiling information than i am and also doesn't have explicit 18+ content on it. so i Ludlow recommend you also link to this site, or even link to this instead of linking to my post:

someone has made a neocities site for this whole situation with links to information, petitions, phone numbers and emails along with scripts to use if you don't know what to say/write, and information about the uk's online safety act as there are similar things happening with that here where not only are people at risk of having to doxx themselves to see explicit content but also lgbt+ works and education is being put between these 'give us your id to prove you're 18+ access this website' walls.

there is also this website with more contact information, petitions and info.

lextorias has made a video essay on the situation which may be easier for people to understand than reading walls of text.

this cheatsheet made by dieselbrain.bsky.social, be aware that this sheet doesn't include many international numbers but international numbers are out there and this is an international issue not just affecting the usa so look at other resources for international contact numbers.

and when you're calling remember if they try and push you to email instead you can say it's too important for email and you'd like to speak to someone on the phone. and if you are calling/email/writing letters, you are allowed to keep doing it every day, you don't only get one go at contacting them, you can repeat it.

and if you're in the UK, sign this

and if you've seen sfw lgbt+ content blocked in the uk under the new online safety act you can report it here

[tenebrare]

The new Valve/some other site rules...

technically make games like Dishonored series, Deus Ex series, most Assassins Creed games, Witcher series, Elders Scrolls series, Fallout series, new Hellraiser game illegal. Also the payment processor "naughty word" list has been obtained and killing innocents (i.e. which you can do both Dishonored and Deus Ex) can get game removed from your library. Baldurs Gate 3 has been mentioned as game break several keywords on the list. Among others "fury" is banned content and word in payment processors list. At minimum BG contains bear scene - bang - if Visa wants the game has to be delisted. * New Hellraiser game breaks several words. I.e. body mutilation, the darn promotional image has body mutilated pinhead on it. Visa can shut this down now. It is not about 'gooners' my friends, its about all art and games. Today boobs and violence, furies, tomorrow homosexuality and transgenderism in art and games. It is beyond religion, sexuality or politics. Imagine if cultural shift happens and being gay is no longer socially accepted - games having any lgbt character would be delisted. You think it cannot happen. Happens in part of world already.

Did you know why Tumblr banned adult content? Because payment processors demanded it as Tumblr was unable to moderate adult content properly, but still. And now payment processors are back with vengeance. Have a good day and let this sink in. Past week freedom of speech has got a lot of hits globally as if its coordinated attack. We are all being cooked here same time. What can be done? Raise awareness or learn more about it yourself - contact your local activists and speakers, politicians, emails directly to VISA/Mastercard/PayPal. Do not think of it's left vs right, its humans vs corporate overreach we are in this all together and targeted. * - "They wouldn't do it" - well in fact some group did lobby a payment processor to consider removal of Detroit Become Human. I am not 100% sure why it didn't work out or if Valve simply managed to ignore request at time.

[takaobata]

Current state of affairs

[thoughtportal]

its been a week, and while we cannot let up pressure on making phone calls, we need to start applying pressure elsewhere now as well! PHASE 2: START MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS imgur: imgur.com/a/3pVupWQ more comprehensive info can be found here: stop-paypros.neocities.orgyellat.money

SaveSpeech PHASE 2

MAIL BOMBARDMENT Call centers for Credit Card Companies and Payment Processors are now actively resisting mass complaints. They are hanging up on callers, refusing to escalate complaints/connect to supervisors, and in extreme cases are shutting down/changing around contact points. For this reason, we now have to escalate our OWN bombardment tactics. Therefore, MAILING PHYSICAL LETTERS should now be added to your list of actions. It cannot be stressed enough however, DO NOT STOP CALLING. Pressure needs to be applied from multiple angles, we cannot let up on calls yet. VISA VISA: c/o the Chairman, CEO, General Counsel or Corporate Secretary, P.O. Box 8999 San Francisco, CA 94128 or One Market Plaza, Suite 600 San Francisco, CA, 94105 stripe STRIPE: Legal Department Stripe Inc 354 Oyster Point Boulevard South San Francisco, California, 94080. MASTERCARD: Consumer Inquiries Mastercard 2000 Purchase Street Purchase, NY 10577 PayPal PAYPAL: Paypal Corporate Attn: Legal Dept./Civil 2211 N. First St. San Jose, CA 95131 TALKING POINTS TO HIT -Steam and itch.io were forced by payment processors to delist many games unfairly -This was done after a small, far-right wing group that doesn't represent the wider population made a few phone calls -These groups like GOSRN (Global Online Safety Regulators Network), Collective Shout, Exodus Cry, and NCOSE (National Center on Sexual Exploitation aka Morality in Media) do not speak for everyone, and any ties to these groups should be cut -Their action is harming legitimate, legal businesses, is unfairly targetting games made by LGBTQ+ and minority groups, and overall limits artistic freedom -It is not the payment processor's role to dictate what adults can or cannot buy with their money -the content "guidelines" are vague and unclear, leaving too much room for interpetation -the content "guidelines" is almost entirely made up of content that is LEGAL within fiction, or between consenting parties

LGBTQ content has been heavily targeted in delisting -You are willing to support any politician or legislation that will put restrictions on what the company and other payment processors are able to do TIPS

Ideally, write your letter by hand. printing out is fine, but hand written tends to make a larger impact

Similarly, writing your own letter with your own voice is ideal, but if you need a script, check https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

Be polite. Do NOT make threats, direct or veiled, in your letter. -in most countries, you do NOT need to include your own address when mailing letters. Check your local laws however. TRY TO SEND 2-3 LETTERS A WEEK (MORE IF POSSIBLE) DO NOT STOP MAKING PHONE CALLS

[sagegreenyaps]

Low-key, I wish that the majority of the posts talking about Collective Shout bribing payment processors and forcing the hands of a bunch of media distributors would stop tagging themselves as "proship."

1.) Proship is about "ship and let ship." I get that you're protecting fiction from censorship, but "proship" is not the best descriptor for that. At the very least, "profic" is more accurate. "Anti-censorship" is the most accurate though, and doesn't really get into divisive fiction discourse... which brings me to my next thing--

2.) I worry that this limits the scope of who might be concerned about this serious issue. Especially considering how fiction discourse is already so divided that most people in the discourse refuse to listen to "the other side," and also nobody outside of the discourse really wants to hear about the discourse as a whole.

I'm also trying not to get randomly blocked by people who might see the filter conceal an important post I reblogged while also alerting them that it was tagged "proship," antis," or "anti-anti" somewhere down the chain of reblogs... Or, perhaps a smidge worse than just getting blocked: getting showered in stupid anon hates on my main.