Payment processors don't have the right to censor content online. MasterCard + Visa need to back off + let these platforms host + promote games on their own terms.
Fight for the Future
Fight for the Future
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We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression.
https://links.fightforthefuture.org/
Lawmakers are “taking a hard look” at VPNs after the total flop of the UK “age verification” rollout + we all know where that’s gonna lead—censorship fanatics are gonna try to bring the ban hammer down on VPNs.
Millions use VPNs to dodge surveillance + circumvent censorship.
Can you help us remind them what a terrible idea it is to destroy essential Internet safety infrastructure?
Sign the thing at www.DefendVPNs.com
Regular reminder that consumer credit scores are younger than cell phones đź’—
Using FICO and mass, computerized consumer surveillance as a startpoint here. For a detailed history, read:


Columbia University Press
Creditworthy | Columbia University Press
The first consumer credit bureaus appeared in the 1870s and quickly amassed huge archives of deeply personal information. Today, the three leading ...
Unfortunately we're about to see the worst, repressive ways this legislation can be used. 

WIRED
Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content
The Take It Down Act requires platforms to remove instances of “intimate visual depiction” within two days. Free speech advocates warn it could...
The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate in the world of about 2 million people, many of them are mother's that are sole caretakers of children.


Scholars Strategy Network
Mothers in Prison and the Cycle of Incarceration
The US has the (dis)honor of having the highest incarceration rate in the world.