Private Censorship Rising: How Payment Processors Are Silencing Legal Content

Private censorship rising: How payment processors are silencing legal content

Private payment processors enable global censorship, silencing legal content under pressure from fringe moralists - not law enforcement.

Organize to stop payment processors deciding what you can buy

Payment processors such as Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and Stripe are extending their control of what you can spend your money on. This authoritarian and censorial trend received more attention this week after they forced software platforms Steam and Itch.io to remove or delist adult-themed games. — Read the rest The post Organize to stop payment processors deciding what you can buy appeared first on Boing Boing.

Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up

The petition addressed that MasterCard and Visa must stop censoring legal fictional content that complies with the law and platform standards.