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Against the censorship of adult content by payment processors


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Separately, organizations like Collective Shout(the one behind the recent Steam and itch.io censorship waves) and Exodus Cry(who went after Pornhub) have adopted the tactic of targeting payment processors to enforce their weird brand of Christianity onto the rest of us. To right-wing extremists that don the cloak of Christianity for their bigotry, such at the Heritage Foundation, any visible queerness is framed as pornographic, and therefore must be purged for the sake of “the children.” If you want to close this vulnerability that allows Australian hypocrites flying the flag of feminism to unceremoniously censor video game distribution platforms in other countries, then technologists, gamers, and queer activists need to organize.

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