Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

They got together enough people to mass email, that is all it took.

Companies tend to multiply received responses to represent the total number of people who were to lazy to complain, so Visa and MasterCard saw 1,000 emails as 10,000,000 in their risk averse actions.

Now 4chan is pissed and have started their own mass email and phonecall campaign, so we shall see where this goes...

"[Elon Musk] said he wanted to get his own X payments platform «going soon»".

Surely that's going to solve the problem. There's absolutely no censorship on Twitter. /s

And how is casually referring to heterosexual relationships then not sexual?

Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

As long as it is legal CC companies should be barred from dictating what products and services their systems cover.

And how is casually referring to heterosexual relationships then not sexual?

People like them used to go after books, now games.

Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” – The Banned Books Project

(bannedbooks.library.cmu.edu)

Go to your local store and buy a Steam gift card.

Who's behind this sudden wave of age verification bullshit, Schrödinger's parents? The ones who shove an iPad in front of their 2 year old and berate school teachers for not being poorly paid babysitters who raise their kids for them? And yet they claim to care SO MUCH about the well being of children that they push these obscene and draconian policies on the rest of us? What a bunch of fucking hypocrites, but that's typical for conservatives.

I would prefer if the EU/Swiss backed project based on GNU Taler makes it instead: https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html

Mass emailed didn’t exist in 1969 nor in 1985.

Wherever you went to school, those teachers should be shot.

Maybe read those two comments again, then read your response.

Your reading skills are not what you think they are.

I think you should take your own advice. Just because you lack the intelligence to understand my comment doesn’t mean I’m the one to blame.

Blocked for having shit for brains

Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

I think you should take your own advice. Just because you lack the intelligence to understand my comment doesn’t mean I’m the one to blame.

Blocked for having shit for brains

I'm all in! Three fiddy for the pool

I assume they own their own domain.

Feels like we're going back to the 90s/00s "Christian parents against video games" moral panic era. But this time, they're being appeased more heavily.

I despise conservatism. It destroys everything it touches.

The Mastercard/Visa monopoly (or duopoly) is bad for consumers. It should be broken up.