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Oh no, Sonic.exec
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is coming after me. I'll just let him
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grab me. Why not, ladies and gentlemen?
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You know, it's crazy to think that this
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is one of the most popular videos that
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I've ever had when I started out on my
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channel, covering creepy pastas, things
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of that nature. You know, people take
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cute little children's games and turn
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them into demonic beings. You know, some
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could say that this might not be safe
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for work. And you know what, ladies and
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gentlemen, thankfully I live in a world
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where the internet isn't censored.
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But it is. Now, this is a site called
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Itch.io. And if you ever want to play a
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Sonic.exe game, boy oh boy, plenty of
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them are available right here for your
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viewing pleasure. Now, for example, this
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is a game called Night at the Motel,
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ladies and gentlemen. It's got that cute
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little PlayStation 1 aesthetic. But a
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lot of games on it.io come from these
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indie developers that use Itch.io not
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just a means of distribution but also a
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means of actually making money. So if
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you want to play games like this, that
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is an amazing website to go to. But
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obviously those games only matter as
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long as they are completely safe for
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work. Now what do I mean by that ladies
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and gentlemen? Well yesterday night
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before I went to bed I saw something
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that blew my mind. An update on NSFW
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content.
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We have de-indexed all adult NSFW games
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from our browse and search pages. We
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understand this action is sudden and
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disruptive. And it really is like
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literally within 24 hours everything
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NSFW got completely de-indexed. And this
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statement from them isn't doing it
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justice because not only did games get
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de-indexed, but apparently if you had
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bought an NSFW game with your own
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hard-earned money, that also apparently
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got removed from your purchases. Your
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purchases were literally wiped from
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existence. At least some of them. Now,
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again, before uh somebody takes what I
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just said as gospel, obviously some of
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the people that were purchasing this
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kind of stuff, there's contentions. Some
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of the games aren't deleted. Some of
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them are just shadowbanned. and one
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users like certain games in my library
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are being suspended from posting files,
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removing or hiding their page overall.
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So yeah, even if it seems like you might
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have bought something, probably a bit of
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an issue. Now thankfully, for now at
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least, there is H.IO games NSFW, which
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if you want to access this, you can. Now
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look, a lot of these games are probably,
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let's be completely honest, visual
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novels with a lot of with a lot of porn
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material attached to them. And while I
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wouldn't be somebody that is playing
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them, what I am really against is
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censorship. Okay? And I'm against
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censorship because when you read the
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next paragraph, it becomes pretty
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apparent. So recently, we came under
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scrutiny from our payment processors. So
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Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, whoever they
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use to process the payments, right? The
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moral arbiters of our world now, the
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people that can control what anybody can
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consume on the internet without a
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government entity, without people just
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voting for it anymore. Okay? So they
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talk about a game called No Mercy, which
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is a a game where I believe there was
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like the the the the the fantasy of of
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of assaulting an individual, right? And
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uh yeah, it was temporarily available on
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Hio, but then it was banned in April. So
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obviously the organization Collective
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Shout launched a campaign against Steam
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and H.IO directing concerns to our
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payment processor. So for a game as
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deplorable as No Mercy was, right, it
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wasn't deplorable enough for Steam or
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H.IO. However, it was deplorable for
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Visa, Mastercard or any of these payment
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processors. So, apparently these payment
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processors then started threatening
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Steam and now H.IO. Now, obviously, if
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Steam isn't fighting back, even with
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billions of dollars obviously in their
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in their arsenal, I would not imagine an
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indie game platform to ever be thinking
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of fighting back too. Okay, so this is
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where I do somewhat sympathize with all
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of these, you know, platforms. They have
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put the blame on the real culprit, the
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[ __ ] payment processor. Okay, so I
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don't want you guys getting mad at H.IO
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and bringing up all things like H.IO is
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not for prudes. If you click our link,
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please be careful about what you might
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see. Filthy emoji sunglasses. I'm sure
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when it comes time for your business to
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effectively be threatened into shutting
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down, anybody is going to comply. As sad
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as that sounds, our ability to process
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payments is critical for every creator.
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Okay, this is a timer critical moment
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for H.IO. The situation developed
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rapidly and we had to act urgently in
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order to protect the platform's core
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payment infrastructure. Unfortunately,
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this meant it was not realistic to
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provide creators with advanced notice
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before making this change. So, here's
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what I imagine has happened to that
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collective shout organization, you know,
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went went to, you know, their payment
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processor friends and they were like,
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you know, that site HIO, there's a lot
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of NSFW porn on there. you might want to
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look into that. Now, look, this is
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something that has kind of blown up. You
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know, back in, you know, a few years
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ago, if you ever watch my channel, I
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cover things like Traffickingh Hub
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where, again, it was an entire campaign
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to get sites like The Hub and get adult
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websites to shut down a lot of the
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exploitation they did to real women and
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children. Okay, there were documented
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cases of real human beings being
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impacted by these sites hosting what was
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their adult content. In some cases,
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people who were minors and in this case,
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law enforcement, you know, more
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specifically, the judicial system
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actually brought in companies like Visa
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to be liable for a civil lawsuit in this
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situation. Now, this is a touchy subject
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and this is where I do somewhat
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understand why a payment processor would
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have a knee-jerk reaction because
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ultimately that story involved real
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human beings, okay? Real human beings
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who did almost everything they could,
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even to the point of impersonating
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lawyers before they started going to the
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payment processor. So, obviously, I
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could imagine with a real human being
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with real human damage, things do
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change. But everything that we're
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talking about here is a video game. It's
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an NSFW video game that does not violate
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US law that apparently did not violate
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HIio's terms of service or Steam's. But
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suddenly, because Visa, Mastercard,
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PayPal were like, "That's not okay. Get
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the [ __ ] off the internet." Now, the
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thing about it is I'm obviously against
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censorship because who knows where it
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ends, right? Remember, NSFW can almost
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be a blanket term sometimes. Imagine
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down the road that there was an
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organization that hates violent video
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games. So all of a sudden that game we
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looked at in the beginning, Sonic.exe.
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Oo, it's a little violent. Has some kid
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themes in it. You know, it's a kid game
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but with violence. Imagine if you had,
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you know, somebody who was so anti-gun
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they wanted to get rid of games like
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Ready or Not. Well, now they found out
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the cheat code. Just go to the payment
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processor, send like a thousand emails
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saying that you're [ __ ] outraged.
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maybe bring up the fact that you want to
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protect the children by banning
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fictional [ __ ] content and uh boom,
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all of a sudden they make one call and
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your game's gone forever. Okay? You
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know, people like Jack Thompson, people
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in the industry that have always been
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clamoring for a way to censor media have
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been finding ways to But you know what?
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This Chico was founded by an Australian
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firm right here. It's crazy to think.
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So, they were probably H.IO IO in this
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case threatened to remove all this
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content within the 24 hours or they just
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straight up ban you from using PayPal,
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Visa or you know Mastercard, whatever
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payment processors they used at all
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forever which obviously if that happens
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like almost 100% of their sales just
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stop overnight because how the [ __ ] are
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you going to make money if you can't
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process the payment? So now they're
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conducting a comprehensive audit of
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content to ensure that we can meet our
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requirements for our payment processors.
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pages will remain de-indexed as we
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complete a review. Once this review is
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complete, they've got new compliance
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measure for NSFW pages. This will
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include a new step where creators must
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confirm that their content is allowable
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under the policies of the respective
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payment processors linked to their
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account. So again, it's not we live in a
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world where the toos no longer matters.
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Okay, their toos is like secondary. The
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first toos for any site you go to is
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obviously PayPal or, you know, Visa or
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Mastercard, the payment processor. They
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are the ones that control what you and I
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get to consume on the internet. Okay?
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They're the ones that control what you
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and I can view. And again, if you don't
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see the implications, it's not about the
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porn game, okay? Forget the game for a
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minute. It's about that being the
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easiest way to enter this ideology into
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the mainstream because we've seen this
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happen before, right? like debanking is
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actually a thing, right? It happened in
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a lot of cases, even a lot of political
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cases, for instance, too. There was a
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whole trucker convoy protest that
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happened back in Canada where like
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emergency acts got brought in and I
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believe there were like a couple like
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hundred accounts, which granted in the
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larger scheme of things maybe didn't
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matter all that much, but it showed that
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at any point the government or even
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private entities can come in and debank
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you for your actions. They can debank
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you for whatever reason. And the thing
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is losing access to a bank isn't an
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issue. There's thousands of financial
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institutions all over the world. If if
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your bank completely cuts ties with you,
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it's not hard to go to another bank and
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just start a new account. Where it
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becomes an issue is the payment
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processor. Okay. And to give you an
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idea, if you go to collective shouts
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page, they have made an open letter to
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again six of the CEOs for these
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organizations. So, PayPal, Mastercard,
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Visa, Paysafe Limited, Discover
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[ __ ] still has a Discover card, [ __ ]
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Japan Credit Bureau. So, you've got
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again these organizations and again
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their email is your corporations
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facilitate and profit from incest,
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child, like all the craziest [ __ ] So,
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immediately they're using the most
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inflammatory [ __ ] to go after these
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organizations. And again, these six
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people basically control how we spend
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our money. Now, the thing about this is
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is obviously I don't even think the
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banks like this [ __ ] at all. Nobody
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likes these organizations.
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Unfortunately, we all have to interact
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with them. This is not like, hey, Muda,
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it's a private company. They can kind of
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do whatever they want. And that kind of
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is true, right? Like if you g if you get
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banned from something like Twitter or
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YouTube or whatever, it's not the end of
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the world, right? Maybe it is if your
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content, maybe it is if like you need
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that as your primary source of income.
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But getting debanked, getting your
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payment processors to not work with you
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directly impacts your life to a point
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where you absolutely cannot function.
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Okay, there are parts of the world where
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obviously you need a bank to you know
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purchase a property or even rent a
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property or even access basic services
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right you know basic things you have to
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do with money. If you get removed from
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that, your life becomes substantially
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difficult. You can basically be
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unpersoned just by being depayment
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processored. Okay, that's how extreme it
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goes. And again, it doesn't have to stop
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at the nudie game. All right, we live in
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a world where these companies can
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basically treat the entire area and and
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shape the world to how they want it,
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right? It's one of the reasons why I
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hate seeing censorship in regimes like
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Saudi Arabia, for instance, or China or
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really anywhere in the world. I like to
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believe that since I live in North
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America, I want the rest of the world to
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have the same access to information and
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media that I do. Okay? You you can
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absolutely live in parts of the world
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where they will not allow you to watch
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anything NSFW. They they will
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arbitrarily place censorships on the
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most meaningless of things because some
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people just don't understand what
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they're censoring. They'll censor
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whatever they want and then it never
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ends because again, the porn games are
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an easy thing to ban. All right? Most of
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society will look at this and be like
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nothing of value was lost. But then you
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can always inch closer to that center.
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You can say okay maybe games like
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Cyberpunk, maybe games like Grand Theft
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Auto, Balders Skate, these games have a
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lot of sexual innuendo and [ __ ] thrown
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into them. Maybe we should start
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removing that from society. Hey, we got
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to get those murder simulators out. This
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is how it begins. Okay, this is how
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censorship starts to creep slowly in.
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And the thing is the scary part about
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this is that all of the regulations are
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already being bypassed. It's a hop skip
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and a jump to your call calling the
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payment processor and telling them
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remove the [ __ ] thing from the
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internet. Remove that from society. And
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you know what? It gets removed. Now the
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thing that I've always found in my
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research that's scary about payment
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processing is how difficult it is to
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actually start a competitive empire. So
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for instance, one of the richest guys in
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the world, Elon Musk by I think the
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richest guy has spent I believe about 20
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25 years starting their own payment
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processing organization. And they've
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done it through like X.com, not the
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current Twitter, but like the old X. Uh
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and even with Twitter now, where they
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want to make it the everything app, the
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roadblocks to getting a payment
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processor is actually insane. There are
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litigation that he has to go through.
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There is pressure from Visa and
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Mastercard. If the richest guy in the
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world is having issues trying to start a
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new payment processor, that should show
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you that going back to that letter from
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Collective Shout, this may just be
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effectively a cartel. Okay? Like I'm not
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I'm not saying that in an inflammatory
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way. This is a organization that
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effectively controls this group. They
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control this business and through their
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vehement control and lobbying, they can
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prevent even the richest guy in the
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world from jumping in and starting a new
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organization. And if they can stop the
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richest guy in the world,
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areas like Steam, none of these
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organizations have a chance. And it's
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crazy to think they wield so much power
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institutionally that even outside of
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their scope, they can control what
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everyone else does. I mean, this is not
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even a conspiracy. I'm not getting
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conspiratorial. I'm just laying out the
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facts for what they are. You know, it's
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not as easy as, hey, can Gabe Newell
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just start his own payment processor?
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Can Elon No, these guys are being
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actively railroaded. They're stopped
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from doing it. If the biggest richest
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dudes in the world, you know, so rich
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that they can infiltrate the government
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in some cases, they can basically do
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whatever the [ __ ] they want. They work
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in industry like Elon Musk works in an
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industry where he's trying to get a
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self-driving car regulated onto our
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streets. He is working to get a
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multi-tonon vehicle to drive itself
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through our city streets. He is working
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on regulations like that. And somehow
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it's easier for him to navigate that
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[ __ ] world. A world where a car could
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run me over through AI possibly. And
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then it's so difficult for him to get a
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payment processor started that it's
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become like, you know, a goddamn
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obsession at this point. It's crazy. You
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know, that is something that I feel like
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you if if it's difficult for a guy who
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shoots rockets to space and operates on
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self-driving technology to get into
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payment processing, maybe maybe the
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world should look at how [ __ ] that
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industry is a and maybe ask a bunch of
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questions. The other thing to also see
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over here is again organizations like
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Visa and PayPal and Mastercard do not
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care about the children. Once again they
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were happily providing payment
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processing before and with just a little
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bit of push back especially when you can
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bring up the kids and children. They are
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now actively going out of their way to
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censor the internet as much as they can
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and that that is scary. So ladies and
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gentlemen, if you like what you saw,
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please like, comment, and subscribe.
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Dislike if you dislike it. Ask some
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questions. Fight back against this. From
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my understanding, the closest fight back
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to this, at least in the United States,
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is S41, Fair Access to Banking Act,
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which places restrictions on banks,
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credit unions, and payment card networks
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if they refuse to do business with a
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person who complies with the law.
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Restrictions include prohibiting the use
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of electronic funds transfers and
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lending programs. Now, I've read a
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little bit into this bill, and to be
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completely fair with you, it's not as
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toothful as I wanted it to be, but it is
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the only actual bill out there that is
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even addressing this. So, as important
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as Stop Killing Games is, stop letting
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payment processors bend us over and [ __ ]
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us. Maybe there's a more succent way to
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put that, but yeah, please, please fight
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back against this because the future of
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the internet that you watch, you
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consume, that open last bastion, okay?
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And I'm somebody that loves talking
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about freedom. I have talked about it
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for [ __ ] 10 years. If it wasn't for
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free access to the internet and and and
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and and free open access, you know, free
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access to do whatever I want, I would
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never have a channel on YouTube. I would
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never be able to read creepy pastas. I
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would never be able to focus on, you
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know, the craziest, darkest points of
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the internet. Hell, the dark web would
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be a [ __ ] dream and whatnot.
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This is deeply important. It is. All
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right. Without this, without free access
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to information, we don't live in a
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[ __ ] normal society, okay? We live in
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a controlled lockdown society where we
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got to eat our bugs and and own nothing
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and be happy and all that stupid crazy
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[ __ ] But yeah, anyways, I'm going to be
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on ramble mode here if I keep going. If
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you like what you saw, please like,
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comment, and subscribe. Dislike, dislike
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it. I am
