🧵🧵🧵This is my attempt to map Visa and Mastercard Censorship.
This is in regards to @CollectiveShout taking ownership of pushing them, but this timeline shows activity back to 2016 for @visa and @mastercard
This thread will break down segments, and provide close ups.
Reminder:
Collective shout and NCOSE and other groups are currently labeling all anime and Grok’s Ani (@elonmusk ) as childlike in order to get it banned under “illegal content”
Collective shout labeled me as a man because they claim to be pro-woman and they can’t have a woman talking back
Collective shout does not allow dissent, all views of Melinda most likely belong to all women.
Collective shout chases bakers, ads, clothing, playboy, charities, Detroit become human, GTA V, perfume, makeup, by harassing businesses with emails. But they Support Cuties (2020), the film that actually exploited little girls and saw 650 auditions which included sexual twerking.
2016, 2017, both links talk about how payment processors are becoming anti NSFW for adults, flesh and blood, nothing about art yet.
Come 2018, that changes after FOSTA SESTA passes- NCOSE was a big push. The language scares payment processors into feeling responsible for “illegal content”
April 2021, Mastercard changes its rules and sites @NCOSE as one of its advisors. NCOSE is currently labeling all anime and grok Ani as childlike to get it banned.
ACLU makes a complaint report, sites FOSTASESTA as possible reason
August 2022 Mastercard acknowledges it will suspend service if they deem it “illegal” under their vague rules
Jump to 2024, we have the start of investigations, suspensions, and censorship requests. Please keep in mind there are more than just these.
April 2025, Visa updates its rules- 920 pages and yes, I skimmed it all.
These are the most troubling parts because they say specifically “BUT NOT LIMITED TO”
This dialog leaves it open, so while they prohibit CSEM, beastiality, rape, they ALLOW FOR VAGUE RULES and DO NOT LIST EVERYTHING.
They specifically state computer generated, which means all art, ai, etc.
They also will label you “high risk” and monitor you extra close.
And then some wrap up to today, which you can catch up on links from more Visa and Mastercard censorship requests and see what these groups are doing in the next post.
Feel free to use this information to start your research and add to it. Make videos. Make commentary. Retweet. Do whatever you want
THIS is their latest movement and their attacks on @elonmusk wont stop.
It requires our politicians to do something and we all know how hard that is without constant pressure. If you are going to message them, please use language like:
Foreign extremist entities look to circumvent local laws and censor content they do not like, affecting American businesses.
If you are messaging your reps of a different nation, just replace America with your country. Be sure to provide screenshots from their website showing how ridiculous their behavior is.
I need to make an amendment, i did screw up on the Mastercard segment, that is on me for using the old notes/screenshot. I got lost in my own sauce.
This page should be unmarked from NCOSE as that is NOT the group targeting fiction. NCOSE appears to have purposely picked that name (their rebrand was intentional from a catholic group) to look more legit than they are.
The group consulted there is actually a useful organization that does not deal in such matters.
I became very sweaty after rereading that bit and what i typed.
Add this to 2016 as well!!!
This was my hope more people would come forward with things i missed or didnt add on. I know sites are missing, i cant compile all of them.
🧵🧵🧵There is a movement happening among certain "exploitation" groups- namely @NCOSE and @Collectiveshout to label Grok's Ani as "child like".
This is a direct attack on @ElonMusk and in the following posts will show this, along with recap everything I have spoken on. This is a nefarious tactics to possibly cause legal harm to Elon, and is a greater attack on fiction in general.
1) Melinda and Dani- Dani works for @NCOSE and Melinda is the founder of CollectiveShout.
2) Haley McNamara is a former DC mayor advisor, well connected to DC politicians. She and her group, NCOSE, are labeling Ani as "child like"
3+4) Haley tweets out a petition to PRESSURE APPLE, not regulator boards that already allow Ani to exist, to remove. This is important because in a statement from Tumblr, they said app stores are bullies similar to payment processors
The petition makes the claim that @Elonmusk is intentionally releasing a product that features "child like" anime images and make a fuss about "sexually explicit conversations".
They frame the bot being prompted to say something means they are justified in calling it "child like", but their example is the worst, most ridiculous thing:
"Little thing, barely reaching the kitchen counter". They are also upset with limited to no age verification. This is important for later.
I, a 33 year old women of 5 ft 4 stature, often make jokes with my husband, 6 ft 9, that i am too short to reach the bottom shelf....
It amazes me how absolutely useless these twats are. You’ve got “perceived experts” yet you still need everyone else to make what you want?
Just go make your own studio with the money. Stop pulling stunts like this. People are over it. Your shitty writing doesnt sell. Companies are bloated because youre all useless, takes 10 people to do the job of 1 at ubisoft when you have a team of 30 all doing the job of 500.
Go away. Go make your own thing. And leave everyone else alone.
No one wants your shit. How do we all know? You admit it. Youre “losing ground” because what you make is softer than a freshly laid chipotle stool on the sidewalk in Seymour tx, august 12th 1936.
Make a good game. Earn the love, not beg for it.
But you dont want that. You want “validation”. And you want it now.
You hate gamers. You dont care what the issue is. And youll never get a dime from us.
Everyone is sick of the self aggrandizing and self Fellatio circle jerk goofball awards and dei committees.
🧵🧵🧵Want to know who could possibly influence rockstar games and GTA? I’m sure you all remember the articles floating around about GTA V randomly removing “transphobic” content, but of course leaving in every other “harmful joke” about everyone else…
But did you ever wonder who actually triggered that change?
It’s a group called OMG- out making games. This is directly connected to UKIE- a middle man between government/policy and entertainment. If you want to do business and possibly have a voice in parliament, and you have a UK location, you are practically forced to work with these individuals.
James Dodd runs UKIE’s DEI sector, works on OMG, and put his lame quote not only on Martin Tripp Associates website but front and center on Raise The Game pledge page, which is a DEI pledge.
Martin Tripp associates installs c-suite level people into companies. Their website is horrifying.
Do I think GTA is done for because of this? Normies will buy the crap out of it day 1- that’s all I know.
Do I think they’ll be reigned in and not allowed to make whatever joke they want? Absolutely.
The group is a collection of DEI lovers and happily hops on whatever band wagon they can and I’m unsure how rocksteady had any money to fund them, but I’m sure they budget it in because a guy from rocksteady is actually on this board.
“Safe in our world” is exactly what it sounds like. Another money siphon.
They’re very concerned over Meta’s changes :,)
They’ve also got some bogus awards to prop themselves up, which is a common tactic since about 2010~ it’s always been a thing but it became more aggressive then. Gotta have a bullshit participation trophy.
That’s also why people are big ass mad over the TRGAs, because it isn’t THEIR SIDE doing it.
So after seeing someone else found the linkedin for the guy hate crusading on @Asmongold for the crime of thinking people who harass an artist are stupid and lame (paraphrasing, probably), I did my thing.
Naturally I went to his linked in, then the company one. And there were some curious things.
So the sound guy isn’t just a sound guy, he calls himself a cofounder. Kind of misleading on twitter and I’m not sure why? Audio wouldn’t come before cofounder title……
They hired an advisor who is very heavy in the DEI. I wonder if he advised them to do something like this- be eager to misrepresent the current issues and complaints in gaming?
Either way, “consultants” continue to be the biggest waste of money to studios that exist. It once used to be a useful term, relating only to historians, or lawyers, or actual marketers. Now it’s just anyone with an extra immutable trait.
His website is a bit goofy……..personally I’d never hire someone with this as their……first impression, but I’d also never hire a consultant.
Turns out he’s a former journalist. Who could have ever seen that coming.
G🧵🧵If his name sounds familiar to you, thats because Senator Warner was exposed in the Twitter Files, released by Elon Musk and Taibbi.
Warner was part of the politicians and governments pushing platforms to censor certain accounts, despite those accounts failing to show a pattern of behavior that support his claims.
Warner, who is among the MOST WEALTHY of ALL the senate, was part of the intelligence committee at that time but he has held power since 2009. Though most of his wealth was amassed prior to politics, he has only grown his coffers since.
Currently, he oversees housing and urban affairs (Blackrock and Blackstone are very interested in this man, smile), intelligence, and a few other things. He was also the lead behind getting tiktok banned in America, which does remain a controversial topic.
I do not believe this man supports censorship in such a black and white way, but it is unclear how he forms his opinions around it. The only thing I do know, is he speaks from a place of ignorance here today.
In 2021, he aimed to reform section 230 of the communications decency act, which holds companies accountable for what is posted on their platforms, claiming the aim is to prevent hate speech, harassment, and human rights abuses. The ADL previously supported this and praised him for it.
Given this, there is a clear history between them, even if it is small, this causes concern. Why? Because he is now using a report from them that is based on misrepresenting data to make egregious claims. Less than 1% of accounts on steam engage in the sharing of "pepe the frog"- which is just a meme. It is not hate speech, it is not "right wing".
Thanks to opensecrets, we can see some top contributors, interestingly enough, blackrock, visa, and mastercard are all listed as contributors.
The ADL is an evil and overreaching "organization" full of rich people who fund extreme leftists, though it has come under fire in the past years thanks to other extreme lefties who have taken the side of the Palestinians who claim the organization is now "right leaning" and attribute growing attacks on THEM to the ADL "signaling it".