Comment on Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship Petition

• shads@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I keep seeing this suggested and while I think that would be amazing I really don’t think its likely. These incumbents are set up to make things difficult for new entrants to their market. With political will and engagement it would be possible, but in the current world political environment these payment processors would simply buy the right politicians & court officials to ensure that any legislative challenges would be killed in the nest.

  In the world we are in right now we need to instead focus on making the payment processors bend to the will of the majority not a vocal minority.

  We also need to start finding strategies to fight back against paedophilia as an accepted permission slip to let the worst people in the world get away with whatever they want. If its not a disqualifying status for the office of president of the US, then why does the existence of paedophiles mean we (vast majority not paedophiles I hope) have to sacrifice our rights, our privacy, and our free speech?

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