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I really haven't been paying attention, can someone eli5 this whole situation with adult content and gatekeeping that's going on. I know about what the UK is doing but now it's coming to the USA? It's to stop kids from seeing lgbtq content right? Just papered over with "protecting kids"?
my understanding is that this actually originates with an Australian christian group. their tactic consists of 1) targeting payment processors as a means of "going over the heads" of vendors so to speak and 2) start with content that most ordinary people would agree is objectionable (we're talking real CW i don't want to type that out stuff) and then 3) hope that lets you expand to much broader cultural censorship of much more popular media.
always papered over with "protecting kids" of course. these are the kinds of people that would say they're performing the Holocaust on behalf of the kids.
but how is this seemingly random Aussie group (I’ve never heard of this group until recently) powerful enough to force Mastercard and visa to rethink?
Apparently they use methods that target the boomer CEO executives e.g phone calls and mails. This seems to be quite more effective at getting noticed than social media campaigns that end up being filtered by some shit department before it ever reaches the top.