First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .
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They are cumming for all of us!
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Why are you assuming they are grinning about it? They were hosting this all before in a very laissez fair approach. Unbelievable. It's not "bearing" the payment processors, it's existential. Either they do as they say or they go offline, how hard is this to understand?
"grin and bear it" is not literal.
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Showing opposition is good, if they find the community is so against this maybe they'll not grin and bear the nonsense of the payment processors. They could move to new payment processors, or use crypto to pay.
They could move to new payment processors
This is way harder than you can imagine.. You can't just swap out a payment provider overnight, and even then moving to less popular providers on such a big website is risky.
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I can’t wait for every piece of entertainment to be flavorless gruel!
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European independent payment processor? Nooooo, US's ass is so tasty to kiss...
USA is a lost cause already, but EU still has a chance. Get rid of USA-related anything. Let them sit there and eat corn and watch superhero movies.
Wasn't the activist group Australian?
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EU banks are working on it
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/paym/integration/retail/retail_payments_strategy/html/index.en.html
There's some sort of SEPA instant payments that come into effect this fall, I think, too.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The US has the Fair Access to Banking Act trying to do similar things, but it's been stagnant for 2 years.
This bill places restrictions on certain banks, credit unions, and payment card networks if they refuse to do business with a person who complies with the law. Restrictions include prohibiting the use of electronic funds transfer systems and lending programs, termination of an institution's depository insurance, and specified civil penalties.
Banks and other specified financial institutions are allowed to deny financial services to a person only if the denial is justified by a documented failure of that person to meet quantitative, impartial, risk-based standards established in advance by the institution. This justification may not be based upon reputational risks to the institution. Banks may also deny services to a person who engaged in rude or harassing conduct toward an employee of the bank.
The bill establishes the right for a person to bring a civil action for a violation of this bill.
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Showing opposition is good, if they find the community is so against this maybe they'll not grin and bear the nonsense of the payment processors. They could move to new payment processors, or use crypto to pay.
Moving away would seriously hurt bottom line as not everyone will bother setting up accounts.
Moving to crypto would shut them down, the amount of people I know that pay with crypto for anything is almost zero despite having a tech-savvy friends group. -
Wasn't the activist group Australian?
Sorry about them!
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Can we not overlook that this was activist driven. Looks like this Collective Shout is only a 40,000 person organization. 40,000 people just broke content access for millions. Over a game that had already been pulled from the platform without their intervention.
Looks like this Collective Shout is only a 40,000 person organization. 40,000 people just broke content access for millions.
Not even that.
Collective Shout later wrote that 1,067 individuals called and emailed payment processors as part of this campaign.
It's absurd. I'm just going to link to the last thread from when this was on steam , and repost my comment.
https://lemmy.world/post/33277694
Collective Shout later wrote that 1,067 individuals called and emailed payment processors as part of this campaign.
How the fuck can these goddamn censors achieve so much with just this much, while stop killing games has hundreds of thousands, if not millions of supporters and can barely get companies to do the minimum?
Just fucking anything worth doing needs overwhelming support, these dickheads can get it done with just over one thousand people. It's a fucking joke.
Yeah, this is incest and rape, incest and rape bad. wow, hot take. It's not about that, how fucking little effort do these dickheads need compared to how much fucking effort is needed to actually achieve something meaningful in this life.
These pricks are only doing it to try to limit speech instead of doing something to "protect the vulnerable".
porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists
I'm sure they won't finish there, and won't rest until porn in general is outlawed.
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"grin and bear it" is not literal.
My bad, thanks for the headsup. Missed that because of the negation. So yeah my original reply is a mess but that doesn't change that this is existential and the community opposing itch doesn't make any sense.
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Read: bigoted crybullies got the credit card duopoly to fuck us, and nothing on the internet is safe until they're stopped.
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Looks like this Collective Shout is only a 40,000 person organization. 40,000 people just broke content access for millions.
Not even that.
Collective Shout later wrote that 1,067 individuals called and emailed payment processors as part of this campaign.
It's absurd. I'm just going to link to the last thread from when this was on steam , and repost my comment.
https://lemmy.world/post/33277694
Collective Shout later wrote that 1,067 individuals called and emailed payment processors as part of this campaign.
How the fuck can these goddamn censors achieve so much with just this much, while stop killing games has hundreds of thousands, if not millions of supporters and can barely get companies to do the minimum?
Just fucking anything worth doing needs overwhelming support, these dickheads can get it done with just over one thousand people. It's a fucking joke.
Yeah, this is incest and rape, incest and rape bad. wow, hot take. It's not about that, how fucking little effort do these dickheads need compared to how much fucking effort is needed to actually achieve something meaningful in this life.
These pricks are only doing it to try to limit speech instead of doing something to "protect the vulnerable".
porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists
I'm sure they won't finish there, and won't rest until porn in general is outlawed.
I appreciate it. Not anything I can do about it. But it's good to know who to be possed at
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Read: bigoted crybullies got the credit card duopoly to fuck us, and nothing on the internet is safe until they're stopped.
bigoted crybabies
Actually highly organized American religious organizations doing this shit. They've been organizing for a long time and with trump now have a clear path to try and make the entire world suffer under their needs
Fuck the American Taliban
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The most the payment processors can do is refuse to work for them. All the free games will still be available and they'll have to find new payment processors.
Like who? You realize there's only a handful and they operate as a single entity, right?
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bigoted crybabies
Actually highly organized American religious organizations doing this shit. They've been organizing for a long time and with trump now have a clear path to try and make the entire world suffer under their needs
Fuck the American Taliban
What do you mean "actually?" Religious creeps are most of that category.
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My bad, thanks for the headsup. Missed that because of the negation. So yeah my original reply is a mess but that doesn't change that this is existential and the community opposing itch doesn't make any sense.
wrote last edited by [email protected]The community taking it out on itch is definitely misplaced blame and a lack of understanding how much power the payment processors have.
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What do you mean "actually?" Religious creeps are most of that category.
Reminds me of: the venn diagram of religious creeps and bigots is a circle.
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bigoted crybabies
Actually highly organized American religious organizations doing this shit. They've been organizing for a long time and with trump now have a clear path to try and make the entire world suffer under their needs
Fuck the American Taliban
Collective shout is Australian, in Taylor's Lakes Victoria
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I can’t wait for every piece of entertainment to be flavorless gruel!
I hoard media for many reasons, including this one.
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I hoard media for many reasons, including this one.
I have a ton of comics, books, and old games/consoles. My dream is to one day have a room dedicated to nothing but disconnecting and retro culture. A room that is not tainted by the current state of everything.
