Working today but please keep up the calls, please. Stress that you're upset you can't buy certain products with your card because the merchant isn't allowed to take the card. If the company says, "ask your bank" tell them you already did or call your bank and make THEM call.
Think its stupid that VISA and Mastercard think something as innocent as Cat Ear accessories are a bannable offense?
Then heres something you can do about it. Complain to visa and MC, call your representatives.
Advocate for porn, whole heartedly.
Oh, hey.
Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".
Let that sink in.
Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.
I am sincerely hands and knees begging people to do this.
The existential threat is getting pretty immense and it's not slowing down, not with the gov't *openly stating* that "consensual porn" is in the crosshairs.
*Please* call. Please write physical letters. Please keep the pressure on.
I simply cannot stress it enough.
You cannot sit this out.
They are coming for EVERYTHING. No media, no creators are safe under these policies. They want us poor, they want us criminalized, they want us disenfranchised.
Call paypros. Call your reps. Do SOMETHING.
Daily check in 08/25/2025
So things got a little crazy today. MasterCard refused to create a new complaint for me since my phone number already has 10 on them. Visa went back to its old script both times I called. PayPal however, lost its mind. -
Hey this is really fucking dire! Keep calling Stripe. This aligns with nothing they've previously told us
Just a reminder, banning porn doesn't just mean going after OnlyFans or Pornhub. It also means banning written erotica. Smutty voice audios. Video games with sexual content. Your favorite romantasy novels. Fetish photography. Erotic art.
It's never just about pornographic films.
YOUR VOICE MATTERS. They have spent billions and billions and years and years convincing us that what we have to say as common folk is worthless because of not paying for their degrees or programs.
Our existence is enough. Our comfort is enough.
Want some variety in what you call Visa and Mastercard for? Pick a movie with any sort of violent or sexual theme and say you want to buy it, but make sure to tell them about the themes their TOS doesn't allow. Ask them if it's ok bc their own rules sure don't say so and oh man it's just such a mess
Daily Check in 08/24/2025
Got to the calls late today, but they were certainly interesting. When I asked PayPal why it was censoring games they told me the government was making them. When I asked which government, they said they didn't have to tell me.
Yet another weird excuse from PayPal. -
Non-consensual mutilation of a person or body part?? that's any piece of media at or above a PG
this applies to fucking Home Alone, for god's sake, it's just a confusing list so they can justify censoring anything
keep calling
It would be REALLY funny if Visa suddenly got tips from thousands of people reporting every store that has ever carried an official Star Wars movie.
Those are just jam-packed with 'non-consentual mutilation of a person or body part', which is apparently against the rules to distribute.
Talking to indie devs, these things shock them most about adult games:
* Adult games are *manually* reviewed by someone at Valve, and this can take weeks
* Valve has no clear guidelines on acceptable adult content
* Rejections never come with a solid explanation
* There is no appeals process
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Soundtrack release in the replies, devpost of me thinking on the game here!
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It's been THREE YEARS since I released my first VN, holy shit lol, das crazy :0
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💯No exaggeration this is HANDS DOWN, the BEST, ABSOLUTE BEST talk/video/coverage of the censorship issue I HAVE EVER SEEN. 5 minutes in I knew it was going to be amazing, and EVERY point she made had me going 'YES, THIS EXACTLY!' Please watch this, share it everywhere, & send it to everyone you know
Daily check in 08/14/2025
Visa has dropped it's script! Not sure if this was a work form on high because it simply wasn't working, or they've just gotten tired of it, but they're now just accepting the complaints. They're not actually filing them, but they've stopped arguing. Which means-
the usual vagueness is present here that is usually a bad sign to come for adult content.
bluesky is taking feedback on the guidelines at this link below. Let them know these are not satisfactory
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
points that need addressing are: [cont]
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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
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.
Scale of Survival, a giantess game
Like Seafoam, not appearing
Not my experience. Here's a small, little-known giantess game that didn't get hit with a search suggestion ban -- compared to one of Krispykat's SFW yuri games. I think their whole account was labeled for search suggestion ban, which is quite overreaching
twice today, when pressured, Stripe operators have said, plainly, that i cannot use stripe for the purchase of LGBTQ content. not just adult content, but explicitly LGBTQ.
#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:
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KOSA
IODA
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CALL EM. MAIL EM. EMAIL EM. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD.
VISA CAN'T HANG UP ON YOU UNTIL YOU STOP TALKING. YAPPERS, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO SHINE.
Talk in circles! Loop back to the same points! Take a minute to "remember" a word! Your goal isn't to change their minds, it's to keep talking for as long as possible to waste their money and clog call centers.
