Are You Letting Visa/Master Card Know You Support Free Speech

[loramin]

For those that aren't aware, Steam, Itch.io, and a number of other online game vendors have been forced to remove "offensive" games from their store, because Visa and Master Card essentially blackmailed them. They told the vendors that if they didn't remove the games, they would stop processing payments for them (effectively putting them out of business).

To be clear, Visa and Master Card just decided that no adult in America can buy a video game unless the credit card companies decide it's inoffensive enough for them. If a US citizen wants to buy a video game with naked women (or men) online, they now can't, because Visa and Master Card decided as much.

Anyhow, gamers aren't happy. If you have a few minutes, please consider contacting Visa and/or Master Card (that link has phone numbers and URLs), and let them know how you feel.

[shovelquest]

Im pro banning video games.

How can I support VISA more?

[OriginalContentGuy]

Third, and thanks Loramin I heard about this recently.

[shovelquest]

Hi, antichrist? Yeah Im calling to let you know I don't like how you're using this mark of the beast I opted into.

[shovelquest]

Where is the petition to ban steam so I can support my local video game store (that is now extinct)

[Reiwa]

I was gonna guess it's rape games but didn't want to be a jerk but yes it is rape games.

(Grauniad since you're so fond)

The move came after an open letter organised by Collective Shout, an Australian-based group that fights the sexualisation of woman and girls. On 14 July, it called on payment providers to cease providing services to gaming platforms Steam and Itch.io, claiming that hundreds of their games contained content including rape, sexual violence and incest

[Reiwa]

In April, we exposed the sale of rape simulation game ‘No Mercy’ on both Steam and Itch.io gaming platforms. In the game, players assume the persona of a man who rapes his female family members, including his mother and his aunt, as punishment for his mother’s infidelity. It was marketed as follows:

In this game, you’ll either become every woman’s worst nightmare… or rather: the best dick they'll ever have. Your goal is simple: leave no pussy non-fucked, since that's the only thing they all want. Never take 'no' for an answer.

Fuck your mom, fuck your auntie, and even fuck your friend’s mom. Why not?

Take what’s yours and show No Mercy.

[Swish]

Cash is king, use it wherever you can.

[shovelquest]

First the fat women came for the conservatives and incels, then they came for my rape games!

[Reiwa]

There will be no gooning