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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/

A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS.

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Currently: WhatsABI

Personally, I'd try to explain the ins and outs once, and if they don't want to read into it further, it's not my issue. 💅