If you can, please set up donations to The Trevor Project and find local trans support groups. Trans people need to know we love and support them no matter what this fucking monstrous admin does.
I DONT WNA CRY
youtu.be/dQVSUaPCbPI?...
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Spinel in the paper cup of a half-eaten cupcake, presumably having snarfed enough so that she could squeeze in.
Peridot relaxing on a beanbag chair, tapping at her tablet while floating a soda beside her.
Commissioners and artists, be aware of this if you use the PayPal
Poster of a hare with a fun bottle with text “ ALL THE WORLD WILL BE YOUR ENEMY AND WHENEVER THEY CATCH YOU THEY WILL KILL YOU BUL FIRST THEY MUST CATCH YOU”
“I’d rather succeed in doing what we can than fail to do what we can’t.”
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JUST STAY ON TWITTER ONE MORE DAY BRO WE'RE TAKING IT BACK I SWEAR
JUST ONE MORE QUOTE TWEET AND WE'LL DEFEAT THEM, JUST GOTTA BE SNARKY ENOUGH
THE NAZIS DEFINITELY HATE THAT YOU'RE SPREADING THEIR IDEOLOGY THROUGH FEEBLE QUOTE DUNKS
WE GOTTA STAY AND GET OUR BRAINS MELTED JUST TRUST ME
More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.
This seems kinda significant.
No lie, this calling campaign is one of the most effective levers we have at the moment.
If we sustain the campaign through the financial quarter we'll be sending a strong message that this administration is bad for business.
Please continue making censorship unprofitable.
We're not in theoretical "they could come after sfw queer content LATER" territory anymore. It is being used to come after sfw queer content NOW.
Spread this around, send the article to any and every news outlet/content creator you can think of. The alarms need to be sounded
And KEEP CALLING
Stripe crossed a line now.
Call up whatever local LGBT organizations exist in your area, gay activist groups, gay bars, pride organizing committees, folks who schedule drag shows, queer church groups, everyone.
Also libraries and bookstores.
Show up in person to talk to any business using Stripe.
I'm ready for the next World Cup⚽️
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The point of calling credit card companies isn't to make John Visa have moment of introspection and go "aw shucks I was wrong!" it's to grind business to a halt for such an extended period of time that all the higher ups who are real people with names and addresses decide that this isn't worth it
BANANZA!!!!
Actually, i have drawn moushley before
I laughed at this video for like 2 minutes straight last night and now you get to
Digital graphic with the text "anti-censorship campaign" and screenshots of headlines about how multiple storefronts have removed NSFW content due to pressure from payment processors and Collective Shout.
I know we're upset about itch, but they're not the only ones
Payment processors harassed companies bc of a 1,000 email hate campaign
But we can EASILY top 1,000!
I prewrote an email + got the contact info - you just have to send!
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We CAN make a difference 💕
#itch #censorship
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I'm going to outline for you exactly how the christofacists win, because it's an obnoxiously simple strategy but a reliably powerful one. You know that post that's like "I don't trust y'all to eat the rich because you'll just target a bunch of doctors and actors and forget about the people who do the real damage?" That's our communal Achilles Heel. Here's the play: Collective Shout organizes a bunch of phone calls to payment processors demanding the elimination of NSFW/LGBT/ETC content. Payment processors go "oh, that's a lot of phone calls, we should do something" and then tell Steam and Itch to comply with those demands or be cut off from being able to do business. Then Steam and Itch have to make a decision between cutting off an arm and clamping down, or take a stand and shoot themselves in the head, functionally nuking their entire platform which, especially for Steam, have exponentially farther reaching ramifications.
Then our community gets mad at *them* and start calling them cowards and boot lickers and profess never to support them again. And like, yeah I get that getting mad at Itch is easy when you've got nothing to lose, but what the fuck with "I'll only support you, the comparatively small business with no real power as long as you can singlehandedly and successfully fight off the international might of the owners of theocratic capitalism with no further action from me?" like do people really not see the distance between creators and Itch (that's like, what? 30 people?) vs fucking Mastercard?? When the Goblin has Spider-man under his glider, we start throwing shit at him, we don't go "Damn, Spider-man, you said you'd save us. I guess you suck. Fuck you." So if you want to be more than a useful, reactionary pawn, I'm linking to a bunch of posts where smarter people than I are sharing payment processors phone numbers, scripts on how to talk to them, and other resources. If you do not pick up your phone and make that call you have *no* right to be mad at a company that has historically been pretty good about their support for creators and are likely trying to figure out how to weather this storm in real time.
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Maybe we could find out.
Mastercard (US): 1-800-627-8372
Mastercard (Int.): +1-636-722-7111
Visa (US + Can): 1 800 847 2911
Visa (AUS): 1 800 125 440
PayPal: +44-0203-901-7000
i worked with our director RJ to put together a web page compiling phone numbers, emails, and petitions where you can make your voice heard - protect queer artists and sex workers and tell payment processing companies to end their awful policies harming safe spaces for creative art
No matter the size of any organized religiously fanatical effort to eliminate us, our victory is inevitable.
Trans people are inherent to humanity. There is no surgical removal of us as a people, whether by torture or murder. It would require the extinction of the entire human race.
www.mastercard.com/global/en/vi... lists numbers for corporate offices, I don't know a good script but I would say a decent thing to say is that you want Mastercard to stop doing censorship by fiat. I'd also suggest that if you have a big following, to pressure any journalists in tech to speak up
