Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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    Keep the pressure on.

    Collective Shout got them to change their position and they’re a small group. We are legion, as the kids say

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      That’s something we all have to remember. We have to be just as vocal as these idiots or they take over. They are not the majority, they are only the most vocal.

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    What’s even the argument here? Steam already has parental control options, age gates, and content filters… if you don’t want your kids seeing that shit on steam, then, like, don’t let em?

    …meanwhile, let’s just continue shoving blatant gambling down minors’ throats in the form of lootboxes.

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      The argument is control. Religious zealots are all about controlling society and subduing people to follow their rules (that they themselves tend to break all the time)

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        That’s their goal for sure, what I mean is how are they pretending to justify it?

        There’s usually some on-paper benevolent veneer to wrap their hateful bullshit up with.

        For example, they hate trans people, but they don’t campaign on that out loud - they justify that hated under the guise of shit like protecting bathrooms.

        But this is fucking Steam - access to that bathroom is already under lock and key behind an armed guard. They can’t just pull the “think of the children!” card when the children already have a myriad of protections.

        …or maybe they can, considering what just happened. We live in stupid times.

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          They precisely can and they kinda just did. “Think of the children” is the magic phrase to shut down critical thinking and give you carte blanche to do whatever you want.

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            Not always. School shootings happen and suddenly crickets on gun control. “Think of the children” only applies to moral outrage, not tangible physical threat prevention. Also applies to school lunches and any other actual tangible thing to ACTUALLY benefit general child welfare.

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          They want a nanny state to do their parenting for them, cus they are shit parents who spend their time petitioning the government about things they could just fucking unplug.

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          They are quite literally lying about the content of games like GTA V. They pulled the whole “the goal of the game is killing women” schtick

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          That’s their goal for sure, what I mean is how are they pretending to justify it?

          The same way they always do: “WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!?!?!1111”

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      This group isn’t interested in protecting children they’re just interested in pushing their own beliefs on everybody else. The easiest way they can do that is to pretend that they’re interested in children. Which I’m sure some of them are, but not in the capacity that anyone wants them to be.

      It’s a classic right-wing tactic. Because nobody wants to be against a law that protects children.

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      And the reason sexual things had to be filtered was that they are harmful and skew kids’ perception of healthy sexuality.

      Gambling wasn’t considered healthy even where and when marrying a toddler was normal. After all, a traumatized person with unhealthy sexuality does generally understand they are traumatized, a person taught that addiction is normal - not.

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    So sick of conservatives forcing their beliefs on others. Filter your own content, use parents controls, don’t ban everything you don’t like because of your arrogant belief in made up morality. Morality is relative and religion does not give your opinions weight.

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      Yeah but Jesus definitely preached love thy neighbor, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and also, ew gay people not in my back yard.

      I’m pretty confident on two of those anyway

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      everything you don’t like

      On issues like these, conservatives will discover the magic of actual reasons. It’s only “things you don’t like” when we’re talking about banning hate speech or something.

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      Don’t be fooled, that’s not the real reason. Parents that shove iPads in front of their children are not even remotely worried about what their kids are watching online. This is purely about control, has nothing to do with children.

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    “[Elon Musk] said he wanted to get his own X payments platform «going soon»”.

    Surely that’s going to solve the problem. There’s absolutely no censorship on Twitter. /s

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      Oh it’ll be interesting to see how he manages to make a worse payment processor than PayPal. I wouldn’t have thought it was possible.

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      When there are enough competing parties, the argument of “I live in country A and I don’t care about B’s special services reading my messages”, where A and B are in a state of adversity, starts working.

      By competing parties I mean not just A and B, but a plethora of snakes in that pit.

      So - do it Elon. It’s fine.

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    “Face backlash” = about 160,000 people signed a petition saying they disagreed with it, then went about their daily lives and totally, 100% without a doubt continued using their Visa or Mastercard credit cards.

    They don’t care, there are no alternatives. They can do whatever they want.

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      Exactly. We need thousands of people calling them non stop disturbing them for hours on end, not just signing petitions.

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      I switched all my master and visa cards to amex, canceled a visa card and the only have my debit as visa now because my credit union ONLY offers visa for debit

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    “The internet has no borders. Women and girls everywhere are impacted by male violence against women and misogyny in general which we believed these games perpetuated,” she said.

    Yet the fictional violence against men and boys is A-Ok!

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      Discover, American Express, Diner’s Club, and the one that still rules them all, Cash. There are probably others, but Visa and Mastercard are the two largest.

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        Diners club hasn’t been available to normal people and small businesses for years now. It’s basically a large business company card only thing nowadays.

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        There are a lot of places going cashless these days. Heck some of my kids friend went to target and couldn’t buy anything because target didn’t have the staff to run anything but the self checkout, which at this place didn’t accept cash. They had to leave empty-handed.

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        Discover and Diners Club merged a few years ago btw. Discover also has an alliance with JCB.

        So Discover network is actually really, really big.

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      In Canada, I’d like to see Interac develop into one. Hopefully more prominence wouldn’t ruin it

      Edit:

      Following several aborted merger attempts which were either blocked by the Competition Bureau or by some of the co-owners between 2008 and 2013, Interac and Acxsys were combined into a single for-profit organization, Interac Corporation, on 1 February 2018.

      Never mind. It would be inevitable.

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      At the cost of a less stable value, you can convert your currency to BTC, store it on a physical wallet like those made by Ledger and self-host BTCPay Server to make receiving money easier (alt cryptocurrency available via integrations). As for spending, that depends entirely on the recipient cooperating and accepting BTC. There are also ‘payment gateways’ that should help, including self-hosting a verifiable debit card. I’m still looking into it.

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      Yeah there doesn’t seem to be any alternatives in my country other than cash which doesn’t work for online purchases.

      Apparently there is a complicated thing I can do where I have to go to the post office and then I can send money directly to a company. But that’s really inconvenient (it’s like a 30-second walk from my house, I’m not doing that) and I don’t think steam accepts that payment method anyway. In fact I’ve never heard of anyone except that payment method so I don’t really understand why it exists.

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    Good on her parents for putting Tankard in her name since you need at least one to deal with her bullshit. Bad on them for releasing her into the world instead of into a rectum where she belongs.