Talk:Financial censorship
Add topic2021 Onlyfans Sexwork Ban and Unban[edit source]
The censorship of Steam and Itch.io are probably linked to 2021 censorship of sex workers that Mastercard financially benefited from. I'm going to leave some links here for myself or some excellent person to expand on the Financial Censorship article at a later date.
https://www.aclu.org/news/lgbtq-rights/how-mastercard-is-endangering-sex-workers
https://time.com/6092947/onlyfans-sexual-content-ban/
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/clarissajanlim/onlyfans-reversing-ban-on-adult-content Gingercake (talk) 04:25, 25 August 2025 (UTC)
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This page needs to be expanded to include the ways that financial censorship is anti-ownership/anti-privacy. I think an argument can be made that a duopoly should not be able to prevent people from purchasing legal stuff, like NSFW content that payment processor may find objectionable. This practice is a violation of user privacy and anti-ownership (ownership of money!). I'm working on improved verbiage and will update accordingly. Gingercake (talk) 15:10, 25 August 2025 (UTC)