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As a joking/ not so joking reference to the title. I unironically hope that this new wave of censorship attracts the ire of the Furry community. I can just see thousands and thousands of IT workers spending their spare time and money on fighting this shit instead of spending it on their hobby. I can see the potentially unlimited power.
I feel this situation is only going to get worse for everyone. We as consumers, gamers or otherwise, don’t really have alternatives to this monopoly. At least that I am aware of. Typically if a company acts up we can just boycott it. But what other options do we even have here?
Cash. Start using cash again.
How does one safely use cash over the internet?
I mean, what’s your definition of “safe?” There are benefits and drawbacks to every form of currency. Credit is centralized and benefits massive pieces of shit and requires computing power. Cash is untraceable, and it doesn’t fund anything in particular (minus the federal reserve, but that’s a huge complicated stupid convo), but if you lose it or get it stolen, you can’t file a complaint and get it credited back to you.
I’ve used cash over the internet. It’s a matter of mailing it and getting a product in return. Or you can use the apps that aren’t linked to visa and PayPal. But it’s all a trade off, for sure.
Also, we need to stop thinking of shopping on the Internet as the only way to get products for money. Buy local every opportunity you can, that’s the best answer
You can buy Steam gift cards with cash and redeem them on Steam.
you put it in the retractable cup holder, of course.
Bummer, my computer hasn’t had one of these in quite some time.
Mine too. maybe we can use a scanner, email it and destroy the now worthless cash!
Should try selling artwork and then give away a copy of a game to customers. You can’t sell the game so might as well include it as a gift.
Duopoly, but yeah.
quadopoly, but yeah
Lol, I’d like to see Visa and MC buildings overrun by groups of multicoloured cartoony animals.
Furries have hated the whole “legal adult business made difficult or randomly disrupted because the payment processor companies decided they dont like you” thing for quite some time now. Ive seen multiple artists I follow in that space make multiple switches of platforms because of it and plenty more complain about them. Tho its usually been paypal that gets complained about there from what Ive seen.
Knowing the furries, we probably have agents in every one of those corporate data centers already. XD
We sic the furries on them…
And stand with them!
Furries are also a part of the phoning campaign, I’ve seen it all over my bsky timeline. We’re (the sane ones, not the 18 year old puritans) all pretty upset over it because it’s pretty obvious this is yet another attempt to erase queerness online with the veneer of “protect kids” or whatever the fuck they’re saying now.
So in other words, gamers are rising up?
they are naruto walking, converging on mastercard HQ
Calling Visa today for mine! I don’t play those games, but I hate the precedent. It is not a payment processor’s job to dictate what can and can’t be done. (Now, I have worked FinTech for many years, there is a legit risk they are taking that the feds would blame them however -) it should be on the company selling the product itself, and any decent legal team at a payment processor would be able to handle it like a normal Tuesday.
I feel like it took much less for them to make the decision to take it away than it is to just restore it…
Back tracking is FAR harder, ego wise.
Part of the goal isn’t to reverse it, but to slow further slips down the slope. They will remember the hassle it caused this time, and decide that it’s not worth trying for an easy life from the religious nutjobs, if the gamers will kick up more of a stink.
right wing pressure has more sway in america nowadays cause of trump
Gamer furries
I mean, yeah, that’s definitely a part of them.
Furries have felt their entire identity targeted, even the sex stuff set aside. A bit like the drag queen attacks.
Why would anyone ever piss off the furries? Do you WANT your internet to suddenly go at dial-up speeds?
this makes me feel nostalgic and old. does anyone remember the gamers vs furries thing?
I’ve read through a few of these now, and I still can’t figure out what the source/evidence is that has convinced people that visa and MasterCard are responsible for this. That seems to me like a pretty critical detail, but noone has mentioned it.
The literal rule change they made that caused this explicitly states you have to follow payment processor guidelines:
Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers.
They also basically cofirmed this was brought up by the payment processors.
Thanks!
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Hating on us harmless lot is just thinly veiled fascist shit, because the same way DEI is code word for N****rs, furry has become the socially acceptable code for anything LGBT
So improve yourself
As a wise man once said, check yoself brfo yp wreck yoself
Nope, I just hate furrys because I’ve been on the Internet and bestiality, and bestiality adjacent, is grotesquely vile. You wanna be mad at somebody? Be mad at the freaks who ruined it for the rest of y’all.
Shut the FUCK up when you have no idea what furry/furry identity is
Why are you not mad at the “freaks you ruined it” instead of generalising millions of people?
Look, twenty some odd years ago, we all saw that episode of CSI and it fucked our perception of furries. But we have to move past our sophomore-in-highschool versions of ourselves and protect people who were just minding their own business and got attacked for liking something harmless that other people don’t approve of.
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They’re not hurting animals. Even if you want to focus just on the sex, consider: one has no control over their sexual preference and fetishes. By commissioning artwork and engaging in roleplay with consenting adults, they have a healthy outlet for their desires which harms nobody, nor any animals. You don’t have to understand it or like it. But it’s just nsfw art and adults having sex. It’s nothing to clutch your pearls over.
