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

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

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250725225542/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mastercard-visa-under-fire-petition-payment-giants-not-police-legal-content-blows-1739406

Petition: https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-what-we-can-watch-read-or-play

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  • fistac0rpse@fedia.io
    614·
    20 days ago

    Does a change.org petition with 100k signatures really count as “under fire”? Fuck them, but I doubt this will do anything sadly

    • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
      21·
      20 days ago

      Psychologically speaking there are now upwards of 100k people who all agree on this issue and at least some of them could potentially be mobilized in additional ways now that they know they’re far from alone on how they feel.

      Goodness knows that if I were told there were something I could do as part of this cohort that individually might be ineffectual but would be a death by several dozen thousand cuts for the scumbags pulling this horseshit… I’d act on it.

      • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        92·
        20 days ago

        100,000 people who are still essentially required to use their services for most commerce and will continue to do so.

        So many vendors won’t take Amex or Discover due to their higher processing fees you can’t really even boycott them effectively.

        • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          20 days ago

          The members of Collective Shout are in exactly the same position. So why did the payment processors listen to them?

          The fact that this whole issue even occurred is proof that public pressure, when applied smartly, does in fact work.

          • captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            20 days ago

            Exactly. Collective shout argued that these companies would lose face by processing these payments. A targeted mass response will inform them that the opposite is true

        • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zipEnglish
          5·
          20 days ago

          yes, can’t boycott. MAYBE can do other things. Hell, if I heard that people were doing something mildly illegal en masse to fuck things up for Visa and MasterCard, I might actually consider doing it myself as well. MIGHT.

          or something totally legal that isn’t a boycott like showing up at their headquarters in a crowd of thousands. |

          SOME people might cross the line into illegality by molotovs or other such ‘implements’.

        • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          20 days ago

          I’m honestly curious: Are you one of the people who doesn’t understand how the number can be represenative how the wider populace feels? Or are you one of those who are just trying to downplay the whole thing?

          • chiliedogg@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            20 days ago

            I’m saying Visa and Mastercard have zero reason to change their practices because people don’t really have an option not to use their services no matter how upset they are.

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      20 days ago

      This happened in the first place because Collective Shout turned up and said “A bunch of people are pissed off about this, do something about it.” They’re not a government or a major corporation, they’re just a group that represents people, no different than Change.org. If a petition caused this, why can’t a petition stop it?