Summary thread & call to action on payment processor censorship, and why it's become a big issue among in the LGBTQ community and among artists.
Lobbied by conservative activists, payment processing companies have pressured businesses into removing games, books, etc from online stores.
While the censorship is initially aimed at adult content, some non-adult LGBTQ works also get censored, and the larger issue is that other works could get censored by payment processing companies (some of those behind the censorship have openly said they want to do this)
First, what is a payment processor? These are companies such as Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Paypal, etc, that process payments from customers buying stuff from retailers, in exchange for a fee.
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