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June 16th, 2023
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установление цензуры руками процессинговых монополий Длинный коммент в реддите про историю цензуры в Интернете и каким образом американское правительство добилось установления цензуры руками процессинговых монополий. https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAc >It still blows my mind how the whims of a handful of > payment processors is shaping the modern > internet. Especially when it comes to the question of why >now? This didn't just happen overnight - this has been a growing problem for two decades now. It started with everything that happened in the wake of 9/11 and the Patriot Act. The US government wanted some extrajudicial ways for going after suspected terrorists. But thanks to the Constitution, they couldn't just openly shut people down without a trial. So what did they do? They made a very insidious deal with the creditcard companies & payment processors - "we will allow you to create a monopoly on electronic payments, and in exchange, you blackball the people we tell you to cut off". This arrangement was initially aimed at anyone involved in radical Islam. But already during the Bush era, it was expanded to drug trade (including legal marijuana trade in states where it had been legalized!) and the more dubious kinds of pornography (child pornography, of course, but also legally ambiguous stuff like bestiality). Then the Obama administration came, and this arrangement was maintained and expanded. And in addition to the old targets, the payment processors now also began to target gun stores and the like. Eventually they also began to go after rightwing activists (though the Obama administration usually still preferred to harass them via the IRS). The Obama years is also why Operation Choke Point happened. Eventually, the payment processors and creditcard companies became comfortable with the power that they had been given, and the scope of these activities grew. That's why they forced Patreon to ban a whole range of out-there but generally legal types of porn (suchas drawn depictions of incest and bestiality, etc.) in October 2017 (link to Patreon's own blog post about it). Things have only been getting worse and worse since then. The creditcard companies also went after PornHub in 2020 and OnlyFans in 2021 after several investigations exposed that both sites were regularly hosting underage content. The fact that both companies got exposed for being rotten is still a good thing - but the payment processors still cut them off without any input from a judge. Only a court of law should have the power to shut someone down financially, even if the target is explicitly guilty. ...and since last year, it's become apparant that the payment processors are even going after non-US and non-Western companies like Pixiv. The worst part is that, as far as US law goes, drawn depictions of out-there stuff are legal no matter what. Whenever such cases went to court, this sort of material consistently got ruled as protected under the First Amendment. In other words: the creditcard companies are now using extrajudicial means to ban things that are legal under US law. ...but this rabbithole doesn't really end, though. Reddit alternatives like Voat have been shut down because of - you guessed it - payment processor bullshit. That's just the tip of the iceberg, too. Because from at least the later Obama years, the US has been fostering government-compliant social media monopolies in much the same way as that it has been fostering creditcard monopolies. And it has already used the creditcard monopolies to crack down on upstart competitors for the social media monopolies. Note how interconnected this shit is. * * * Бразилия в этом плане впереди планеты всей, бразильцы ввели систему Pix, с которой платить можно кому угодно сколько угодно без всяких монополий и цензуры, любой семен семеныч может заплатить петру ивановичу, без каких-либо ограничений. Очень удобно если надо купить-продать что-то в Интернете, ну и вообще. Привет Current Mood: |
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обогащение биг фармы Смешно https://johninengland.substack.com/p/on смертность от "вакцин" не просто выше, чем смертность от "ковида", она примерно впятеро выше конечно, шмурдяк не от ковида, и никто, кажется, изначально не предполагал, что шмурдяк как-то поможет с ковидом. Единственная функция шмурдяка - обогащение биг фармы. Соответственно, самое разумное, что фармацевтические корпорации могли тут сделать - колоть под видом "вакцины" физиологический раствор, или что-нибудь такое же безвредное. Но биг фарма никогда разумностьы не отличалась, и колола неведомую ебаную хуйню, и теперь разгребает последствия; и еще много лет будет разгребать, похоже. Автор - John Campbell, разоблачитель ковида; у него в субстаке много такого же, например вот https://johninengland.substack.com/p/co https://johninengland.substack.com/p/co Привет Current Mood: |
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