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
      21·
      8 months 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.

      • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
        14·
        8 months ago

        Diners Club is Discover, and they got bought up by Capital One a couple months ago. So you’ll only really have Amex left.

        • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 months ago

          What’s wrong with Capital One? I feel like Discover/Capital One / Diner’s Club network is a good thing for Discover customers.

          • kungen@feddit.nuEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            What benefits would Discover customers get from Capital One’s acquisition? Discover acceptance in the US has been almost on-par with Visa/MC for many many years.

            • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              Remember that Discover is self-banked (unlike Visa/Mastercard that banks sign up with). This means that every credit line needs to be backed by… well … A bank.

              Bigger banks mean more credit opportunities, better interest rates (etc. etc). Deeper credit lines.

        • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
          12·
          8 months ago

          You can in Japan apparently. They have a system where you can go to convenience store and pay by scanning a code

          You can also sorta use zelle, but the technical integration is not great. It’s a very manual process as it is

          Ultimately, the problem is we let two companies dominate commerce itself. We just need to let the governmet do payment processing, and require compatibility

          • xep@fedia.io
            4·
            8 months ago

            Japan also accepts bank transfer for online payments. So you don’t even need to leave your house.

        • Death_Equity@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          8 months ago

          How hard can you throw?

          Amex gift cards. Cashapp uses Block(Square) for their payment processing, which is easier to use because you can transfer funds to that from your bank.

      • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        8 months 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.

      • dragontamer@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        8 months 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.

    • trashcan@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      8 months 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
      6·
      8 months 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).

    • Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zoneBannedEnglish
      719·
      8 months ago

      At the cost of a less stable value, you can convert your currency to BTC, store it on a physical wallet like those made by Ledger and self-host BTCPay Server to make receiving money easier (alt cryptocurrency available via integrations). As for spending, that depends entirely on the recipient cooperating and accepting BTC. There are also ‘payment gateways’ that should help, including self-hosting a verifiable debit card. I’m still looking into it.