Payment platforms demand services remove NSFW content after open letter from Australian anti-porn group Collective Shout, triggering accusations of censorship

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.

    • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      11 days ago

      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.

      • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        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.

      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        11 days ago

        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.

      • seralth@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        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.

    • trashcan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      11 days ago

      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.

    • Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      In Italy, there’s a debit card circuit called PagoBancomat.

      Italy also has a digital-only payment system called Satispay. Denmark and Finland have MobilePay (which is way better than Satispay). Sweden has Swish.

      Your country may have something similar, look it up. And then you can always pay with PayPal by connecting your bank account directly, with no cards involved (at least in Europe).