Kickstarter has updated its content guidelines to prohibit several forms of NSFW content, and payment processor Stripe may be to blame
  • Onno (VK6FLAB)@lemmy.radioEnglish
    3 months

    No doubt the threat of a Stripe ban on Kickstarter is predicated on the expected ban on Stripe by MasterCard and or Visa.

    In other words, online censorship is being controlled by two credit card companies.

    We really need more payment processors, preferably not based in the USA.

    • 🍉 DrRedOctopus 🐙🍉@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 months

      I know this isn’t new, but I think we can officially consider our society a cyberpunk one, where corporations control global policy.

      Plus: AI assisted omnipresent survailance, Police states, needless tech everywhere, no one owns anything just subscriptions…