If you want to put pressure on payment processors (and you should!): leafo (the main person behind itch.io) said Stripe is the most critical right now
Contact details for various card companies and payment processors: https://yellat.money/
Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers - Tell Payment Processors to STOP

TELL VISA, MASTERCARD, STRIPE, and PayPal to STOP

Protect Queer Creators and Sex Workers - Tell Payment Processors to STOP

@JosJuice it's not even just queer creators ans sex workers, it's also their would-be customers.

it would be an infringement of my rights as a consumer to pay for the perfectly legal entertainment that I want to consume.

(not a lawyer but wondering...)
if this continues, is it not the perfect condition for a class action lawsuit on behest of both the customers and the producers?

@loganer Well... I'm not a lawyer either, but what law would you accuse them of violating? They're just private companies, so there's no law saying they have accept any particular kind of customer or content

Maybe antitrust is the best way to get at them...? I mean, Visa and MasterCard have a duopoly, and they're using that to harm a market

@JosJuice are they really though?

which other private companies do you know of that get paid by the government?

@loganer Lots of them, if you count all companies that sell services or goods to the government? Am I missing something here about in what ways payment processors receive money from the government?

@JosJuice

I'll give you a hint about what I'm talking about...
they call them "bailouts" and they're dish out to banks who are in financial trouble.

@loganer Ah, right. But I don't think anything has been pointing to banks being involved in this recent wave of censoring digital media. The companies I'm talking about are Visa, MasterCard and online payment processors like PayPal and Stripe
@JosJuice i'm tired of power structures trying to exterminate the ability of people to live differently from them but don't have the spoons to fight back