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StargazerKG 🦸🌠 Stellar Hero Vtuber @stargazerkg.bsky.social · 20d

Paypal is now playing harder ball on artists, going after anyone even mentioning commissions.

Artists, send invoices. That way, no one has to say what the money is for on Paypal's paper trail.

Customers, SAY NOTHING about commissions. Just say "thanks" on donos.

Everyone: INCREASE THE CALLS.

qdbuckwheat.bsky.social @qdbuckwheat.bsky.social · 20d

Sharing a helpful link, has other numbers and call scripts to use.
stop-paypros.neocities.org

Stop payment processors from censoring games!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

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Mangapages @mangapages.bsky.social · 7d

Oh no, sorry to hear that, rest up Buddy. Mental Health is pretty important

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 9d

Please contact your senators about KOSA. This bill has amassed a lot of cosponsors.

We can beat this, but we need people to call, email and send letters en mass. Please try to contact your reps as often as you are able to and encourage people you know to join you!

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 12d

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#SaveSpeech

If you're like me and you are struggling to contact your senators re: KOSA via their phone lines this week, I recommend attempting to send physical letters or emails in the meantime.

Here is a script you can use to contact your reps!

www.commoncause.org/find-your-re...

Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m a constituent from [LOCATION]
I'm messaging to demand [SENATOR] oppose S. 1748, the Kids Online Safety Act, also known as KOSA. This broad legislation does not protect anyone and instead will be used to block any speech that the Trump administration’s partisan FTC disagrees with. It pushes the “duty of care” onto websites and social media platforms to remove content that is “harmful to children”. It would lead to overcompliance, mass censorship, and remove access to crucial information re: everything from mental health, LGBT topics, substance abuse, eating disorders and more.
Additionally, while large, corporate platforms like X can shoulder the weight of “duty of care”, smaller websites cannot, leading to greater and greater concentrations of power online into giant corporate platforms rather than small and medium sized businesses.
KOSA will not make kids safer. It will make the internet more dangerous for anyone who relies on it to learn, connect, or speak freely. Lawmakers should reject it, and fast.
Thank you for your time and consideration.
IF SENATOR COSPONSORED KOSA: Additionally, I want to remark on [SENATOR]’s cosponsorship of this bill. I think it is shameful that [SENATOR] has backed a bill as transparently bad as KOSA. This will not keep kids safe, it is an excuse to censor the free and open internet. I will not be voting for nor donating to [SENATOR] in any future campaigns if they do not drop their co-sponsorship of this bill, and I will encourage everyone in my life to do the same.
Do the right thing.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · 16d

#SaveSpeech

KOSA has amassed more cosponsors recently, jumping from 42 to 60 total

You need to call your reps and DEMAND that they oppose this legislation ASAP

The link below contains more info about KOSA and an easy way to contact your reps
5calls.org/issue/kids-o...

Please call DAILY

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Sep 23

#SaveSpeech

Ive updated this infographic with additional bill info, issues, etc

Find your federal and state reps below and make your voices heard!

www.congress.gov/members/find...

www.usa.gov/elected-offi...

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Mangapages @mangapages.bsky.social · Sep 23

That sounds cool, I hope you had fun!

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Sep 18

#SaveSpeech

US legislators are pushing harder to pass KOSA and repeal section 230.

Call your representatives ASAP and make your voice heard! Advocate for protecting section 230, and demand your reps oppose KOSA!

Bipartisan Push in Congress to Weaken Section 230, Expand Online Surveillance, and Increase Platform Liability

Calls for platform accountability came with few answers about who decides what speech is acceptable.

reclaimthenet.org

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Kil(l)i @kilinah.bsky.social · Sep 15

The petition is nearly at 10k - just a little bit more of a push is needed!

Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · Sep 6

U.K. residents, could this be your chance to stop paypro censorship in the country? Please sign this petition

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Petition
Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content
Government should legislate that payment processing companies may not place stipulations on use of their services regarding sales of otherwise legal content and, if they do so, must face legal penalties and must remunerate platforms and individuals for lost income until service is restored.
• More details
Sign this petition
231 signatures
Show on a map
10,000

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BBBen and his Big Brass Band @bbbengames.bsky.social · Sep 6

ATTENTION BRITAIN! 🇬🇧

The UK now has a petition to STOP CENSORSHIP by MasterCard and VISA of legal products!

This joins the Australian and Canadian petitions that are gaining momentum. Come on, let's get these signed! And spread the word!

The UK petition: petition.parliament.uk/signatures/1...

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tamm(allegedly)draws @tammdraws.bsky.social · Sep 3

This isn't like the average online petition btw, this is one of those things where if it gets enough signatures, the HOC absolutely must bring it to the floor for discussion. Incredibly important to get on this if you're Canadian.

Michelle Keep @jmkeep.bsky.social · Sep 3

Canadians! There is a petition to sign to protest Mastercard and Visa's control over the purchase of legal adult content. This is specifically about the Steam & itchio situation, but language protects adult creators.

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

#nsfw #censorship #canpoli

@acvalens.net

Petition e-6695 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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Bukoya @bukoya.com · Aug 31

Feels like this 1 year old thread has become sorta revenant again since I have always felt frustrated that I can't receive payments from customers easily cuz I cannot have paypal

Bukoya @bukoya.com · Mar 20

Thread on my researching into Paypal alternatives cuz I live in a country where it's hard to get money internationally. Here's my experiences and researches with Wise VS Payoneer. Do note, I am speaking on my own country's experience, so your experience may differ from mine.

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Aug 30

These paypros still need to be pressured over this shit! If you havent made any calls yet, now is a great time to start doing so because theyre only continuing to ramp up their shitty censorous behavior!

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Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Aug 18

#SaveSpeech
its the work week, so remember to contact your US representatives! Tell them to OPPOSE the following bills:

Kids Online Safety Act (s.1748)
Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (s.1671)
SCREEN Act (s.737)
FADPA (H.R.791)
ACPA
Block BEARD Act

www.congress.gov/members/find...

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David Mariotte @davidmariotte.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you're in the US and following me, there is a 100% chance you are a person who cares about comics or movies or video games or books or whatever--as a creator, as a reader, as a fan. These bills are seeking to limit free speech and expression. To censor both the country and the world.

Dieselbrain @dieselbrain.bsky.social · Aug 11

#SaveSpeech

Updated list of major US bills ya'll need to yell at your congressmen about, w/ talking points.

Tell em to say NO to:

SCREEN ACT
KOSA
IODA

www.congress.gov/members/find...

CALL EM. MAIL EM. EMAIL EM. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.

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Cutie-Doodles @cutiedoodles.bsky.social · Aug 10

Keep calling. This issue can't die.

It starts with delisting games, but the likely goal is to enact a new morality police that can silence marginal groups and anyone who speaks out against the status quo.

The payment processors are feeling the squeeze! Let your voice be heard!

Fatty's Den (MINORS DNI) @fattysden.bsky.social · Aug 9

The recent wave of restrictions of pornography (including kink / fetish stuff) in art, games, videos, etc. by payment processors and puritan groups runs to the political sphere at top. This recent censorship is a part of Project 2025, as it turns out. It's no conspiracy. THEY WANT TO CENSOR US!

A post on Twitter by the Gelbooru account that says:

Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, Itch.io, and others to pull violent and adult video games from their platforms. They continue to remain silent on the reason WHY they enforced the restrictions on the companies. I surmise they are gagged from speaking through likely threat of regulatory pressure.

May I introduce, 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.

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/images/cfpb_headshot-russell-vought_DA8Ama7.original.png

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. This claim he makes is not based on unbiased scientific testing.

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
https://imgur.com/CxpcUOs
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/16/project-2025-russ-vought-porn-ban/

Now, as his position in the CFPB, he 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.

Continuing the tweet by the Gelbooru account:

This was ALL done in the guise of protecting the children. Admittedly, it is a very solid tactic, at the core. But, if you use the mantra of protecting the children, it tends to mean that it's just a ploy, usually to further a specific agenda.

They are a threat against the United States, nay, the entire world. They are a threat against our democracy, a threat against free speech, and a threat against gamers, a threat against media in general.

These are the same people who believe violent video games cause violent things. An entire generation of individuals have been playing Grand Theft Auto, playing Doom, Quake, and other games, but we are not currently, nor will we face a worldwide pandemic of armed car robberies, driving on sidewalks for the fun of it, or people running around with sawed off shotguns killing demons, or raping people, because a video game was made exploring the content.

Those in power have been eroding free speech in the law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides immunity to online platforms from liability for content posted by their users. They are actively attempting to kill this protection to further their goals outlined in Project 2025, by passing liabilities of their userbase onto the operators via financial regulation threats and pressure, thus killing speech directly, while still keeping in the shadows publicly.

"He filmed the crimes and posted monetized rape videos on P*rnhub, earning revenue for him and the site owners."

https://x.com/BillAckman/status/1898747162306937184

This is their attempt to kill section 230 immunity.

You should not be frightened that they MAY come into power, they are ALREADY IN POWER. They are exercising it spectacularly, taking baby steps to erode away your speech, and we've all been asleep at the wheel.

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Tigburr @ Hell @tigburr.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey, make sure you have these numbers on hand if a secretary asks:

Kosa
S.1409

Screen
S.737

IODA
S.1671

WolfenChimera @wolfenc.bsky.social · Aug 11

If you live in the US also call your senators and tell them vote NO on KOSA(Kids Online Safety Act), NO on the Screen Act, and NO on IODA(Interstate Obscenity Definition Act). All of this matters. It's tiring, I understand but we can't afford to lose.

Ana Valens | 🔞 | COMMS: (3/5) @acvalens.net · Aug 6

Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Stripe. Don’t forget to complete your dailies!!

stop-paypros.neocities.org

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Sam/SpottedAlienMonster @spottedalienmon.bsky.social · Jul 30

As we deal with payment processors and sites instituting face ID and more stuff to steal data that they can then sell, I think Americans should be a lot more mad about the degradation of our right to privacy, which is supposed to be protected in the constitution.

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Fair Political Coverage - we want to hear from ALL our parties @fairpoliticsnow.bsky.social · Jul 29

The broadcast media’s determination to make sure only one party’s agenda is at the forefront of mind’s in the next four years seems relentless. It’s started early to have the biggest impact. Other parties deserve coverage. Demand plurality. It’s OUR democracy

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times

We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...

petition.parliament.uk

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Jack 🏳️‍🌈 @jacksayspurple.bsky.social · Jul 29

Reminder that you can and should still sign this petition demanding the repeal of the Online Safety Act. A huge example of government overreach which can and will be used to persecute minorities, especially LGBTQ people under the guise of "child safety" petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

Petition: Repeal the Online Safety Act

We want the Government to repeal the Online Safety act.

petition.parliament.uk

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Brandon Williams @stupidartpunk.bsky.social · Jul 28

Just want to boost this petition one more time. These things actually help organizers gain support in the gov. Please sign and share!

chng.it/c4JZGQgJmw