my corner store guy is a 50 year old man who’s my best friend in the world and recently he was like “you’re too pretty to be single I have some nephews you should meet. very handsome!” and I was like “a niece might be more up my alley” and he just got more excited and said “ah even better! I was overselling my nephews but my nieces are very beautiful”
hi welcome 2 my blog!!!! my name is sam and this is my petition to STOP HURTING MEG IN FAMILY GUY!!!! (pt 1 cuz there is lots of images :p sry for how long it is qwq) (postin this heer cuz katherine wanted to see and they only hav tumblr :0)
READ BELOW PLS!!!
thats pt 1 !!! will post the second part rn :0
ALT
pt 2 over :00 the last part is only three more things i think and its gonna be posted rn !!! ^~^
Earlier this year, Itch.io and Steam had to take down games due to pressure from companies like Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, and Stripe.
Mastercard, Visa, and other payment processors are still targeting material they deem obscene - whether or not it actually is.
We need to start calling again. Even if you don’t like NSFW stuff or dislike porn - porn and nsfw is only the start of what they’ll go after.
Among Mastercard’s list of “high fraud risk” subjects in relation to Mastercard Threat Intelligence are the following:
Vtubing
Adult Content (which they define very loosely)
Tabletop Games
Video Games & their platforms
And likely more.
They’re likely targeting political activism now in addition to this, and people who speak out against the companies. Notably now, Ana Valens is repeatedly having her payment processing accounts and platforms taken down or flagged as potential fraud - Buy Me A Coffee, Throne, Ko-Fi, Patreon - and in some cases, customer support from these platforms are citing information that hasn’t been put on their platforms when explaining why they’ve targeted her accounts.
Completely SFW accounts of hers have been targeted, likely due to her speaking up about what the payment processors are doing and because of what she makes as a creative. She is at risk of debanking.
This happening to her means that other creators - Vtubers, game devs of both video games and tabletop games, creatives, sex workers - are likely at risk of the same. For many, it’s already happening to them.
Companies and corporations should not have the power to censor what people say and do, or where their money goes - political power like this should not lie in their hands.
We need to start calling the payment processors again and making noise. Contact people in your circles, talk to people, spread the word. Contact your representatives about censorship laws. Spend less money this holiday season.
This is not just about sex work or NSFW. This is about people’s right to decide what they spend their money on, and in some cases, people’s right to access their finances. It’s about creative expression and whether or not what we make gets censored, about what we get to say online.
Below are some resources that include info on phone numbers to call, email addresses belonging to the offending companies, and how to call. Start making noise again. Focus on the fact that companies should not have this power over what people spend their money on, at all.
Let’s remember everyone that we know of who died in ICE custody due to neglect and “undetermined causes” in this past year alone. Again, these are the deaths that we know of:
Genry Ruiz Guillén, Serawit Gezahegn Dejene, Maksym Chernyak, Juan Alexis Tineo-Martinez, Brayan Garzón-Rayo, Nhon Ngoc Nguyen, Marie Ange Blaise, Abelardo Avellaneda, Jesus Molina-Veya, Johnny Noviello, Isidro Pérez, Tien Xuan Phan, Chaofeng Ge, Lorenzo Antonio Batrez Vargas, Oscar Rascon Duarte, Santos Banegas Reyes, Ismael Ayala-Uribe, Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, Miguel Ángel García Medina, Huabing Xie, Leo Cruz-Silva, Hasan Ali Moh’D Saleh, Gabriel Garcia Aviles, Kai Yin Wong, Francisco Gaspar-Andrés, Pete Sumalo Montejo, Shiraz Fatehali Sachwani, Jean Wilson Brutus, Fouad Saeed Abdulkadir, Delvin Francisco Rodriguez and Nenko Stanev Gantchev.
ALT
