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Australian anti-porn lobby group Collective Shout pressured VISA/Mastercard/Paypal to force game stores like Steam and Itch to remove a bunch of NSFW games.

Gamers and game devs are outraged (some losing their livelihood), demanding a global neutral payment system that is not intermediated and censoring based on arbitrary value systems.

I read *a lot* of threads of people discussing this, and not a single one of them has even heard of rollups or stablecoins. They all hate crypto, they think it's volatile and slow and impossible to have consumer protections/escrow/chargebacks.

To gamers and game developers, crypto is bitcoin and NFT scams that they can right-click save.

Are we early? Are we failing to engage with an ecosystem who needs us?

Australian anti-porn lobby group Collective Shout pressured VISA/Mastercard/Paypal to force game stores like Steam and Itch to remove a bunch of NSFW games.

Gamers and game devs are outraged (some losing their livelihood), demanding a global neutral payment system that is not intermediated and censoring based on arbitrary value systems.

I read *a lot* of threads of people discussing this, and not a single one of them has even heard of rollups or stablecoins. They all hate crypto, they think it's volatile and slow and impossible to have consumer protections/escrow/chargebacks.

To gamers and game developers, crypto is bitcoin and NFT scams that they can right-click save.

Are we early? Are we failing to engage with an ecosystem who needs us?

https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/itch-io-latest-in-platforms-pressured-by-credit-card-companies-as-well-as-activist-group-collective-shout-which-has-successfully-caught-an-award-winning-indie-and-more-in-the-crossfire/

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Have you tried to engage?
From my experience it either gets ignored, or flamed to death. I'm not sure how to productively break through.

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I 100% agree with you, but there's a key point you're missing that is conditioned on this: those people literally hate you. Show up to a video game conference and talk about crypto or AI and see what I mean.

I have no sympathy for people who want to be Luddites, and the future is not for everyone.

I think that's a too first-degree look at the issue. It isn't "a dislikable segment of the population can't do dislikable things", it's "cartelized payment processors have effective control over media distribution".

The particular way in which this control is being manifested in the present moment ("taking down dislikable videogames") isn't that relevant. What's important to me: I'd rather live in a world where cartelized payment processors don't have such power. To get to that world, we need society to understand that this problem has a solution. We won't get any solution widely implemented unless it is recognized that a solution even exists.

So it's not so much a matter of "NSFW incels don't like crypto", it's a more general "non-crypto people don't even think of crypto as a solution to their crypto-shaped problems". "NSFW incels" are a subset of that population, and I'm not arguing we should convince them specificaly. But we do need to make some headway somewhere. Insular communities only go so far.

Why are we assuming we should be "breaking through"? The technology is open for all those willing to learn it. They're refusing to use it. Also keep in mind:

1. This is an issue with NSFW incels who want to look at cartoon pictures of young girls.
2. They don't like us.

We worked hard, stayed locked in, learned the technology and used it to improve our lives. I don't think we should be begging anyone as if we need to prove we are right, when we're already right, and especially not this group where we have nothing to gain from it.