There is a lot of talk dancing around the issue here. This isn't an American thing or a puritan thing. This is purely a capitalism thing. They have been doing this for years. Do you think lolicon got forced off of every major platform for moral reasons? It breaks laws in various counties that the web hosts and payment processors operate in. Wincest porn, CNC porn, zoo stuff, NSFL stuff. It's all illegal somewhere. These companies are chasing profits. Those niche topics mentioned above lock them out of expanding into some places. Like China. They don't give a fuck about the ethics of the content. They care that they're loosing money by not being able to conduct business in those markets. You'll loose your little family harem video game. They don't care. They're making billions processing the main narket. It's capitalism and the global economy that's making your platforms more conservative.

When I am dictator, I will reverse this. All the porn that was banned will now be printed on government printing presses and mailed to everyone's mailbox by government decree. You will not be able to turn it off.

They might sort of have to do this or risk being cut off, given the loss of US Net Neutrality and the new pro-business-rights administration.

You're like the negative photo of a boomer. "Everything I don't like is capitalism!"

Steam used to accept Bitcoin, they stopped when the transaction fees made it unusable. Every time I remember that I get really pissed off, had the block size been increased back then Bitcoin would still be accepted in the many places it was (Steam wasn't the only one, lots of stores online used to accept it), but because they kept promising a magic solution that never manifested people lost hope and jumped ship (which did solved the problem as nowadays only investors use Bitcoin, so a lot less transactions, a lot more value in them, and higher fees matter less)

well now we have lightning maybe the time has come to try again. Having already had an implementation working should hopefully help

i had no idea and i've held crypto in some form or another since 2014. Maybe it wasnt marketed well

If you can't buy these games on Steam anymore, where can you buy them?

> I doubt payment processors are creating these rules because they're afraid of Jesus For starters, the biggest owners of both Visa and Mastercard are Mormons, so...

I'm already looking into organizing a secularist group, both lobbying in the style of SKG, both uncovering pseudo-secular organizations rebranding christian moralism as "common sense".

Dude SWIFT has more financial power and sway than visa and mastercard. They're the folks who manage the network that allows bank transfers to happen nigh instantaneously. So if they block you, you are fucked.

The violent video games though, those are the latest satanic panic I've been aware of thanks to that idiot Jack Thompson

I'm not even sure those titles are legal everywhere. Allowing digital purchase of illegal products can very well be criminal for the payment processor in certain regions. I mean just look at those titles. "Incest daughter - BDSM".

This is why cryptocurrencies were created. [getmonero.org](https://www.getmonero.org/)

G*mers and GabeN throwing a shit fit right now. GabeN going to be more Aston Martins to crash.

The EU is investigating a digital euro, but you won’t be pleased to learn that one of the key reasons is to *increase* tracking and compliance. Meaning their stated goal is to be able to restrict how the currency is used, by who, when, and on what. The EU is the very last organisation to ever create and maintain an anonymous and agnostic currency.

Which is why the retailer, Steam, already restricts certain regions from buying titles if they are deemed illegal in that region. Again, it is not the authority of the payment processors to dictate what people can and cannot purchase. Period. No excuses or justifications will be accepted.

Drawn and CSAM don't go together

uncovering, documenting, and analyzing them is important. even compiling other's work on a blog is useful

We really also need payment neutrality. I don't like the content that's being removed, but I really don't like that visa gets to decide that websites are allowed to show, sell, and everything else. I don't give half a damn if someone decides to swipe their card at the heroin and machine gun store, visa shouldn't be the one deciding that they can't make that transaction