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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io (www.theguardian.com)
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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.

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[–] Grizzlyboy@lemmy.zip 29 points 18 hours ago (5 children)

When is the European alternative to these coming?

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 31 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

An alternative to PayPal, called WERO is currently in it's rollout process in Germany, Belgium and France. In October the next step will be activated, allowing payments in e-commerce. Later down the road, you'll be able to pay in real shops. Luxembourg and Netherlands are to join in next. More and more banks start to adopt WERO.

I urge everyone to use WERO as much as you can. It's flying a bit under the radar at the moment and this must be a success. Hopefully more EU members will join soon.

[–] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

I would prefer if the EU/Swiss backed project based on GNU Taler makes it instead: https://www.taler.net/en/ngi-taler.html

[–] Ibuthyr@feddit.org 1 points 6 hours ago

Sounds great, but as with so many of these projects, they sound overly complicated for the masses. Wero is already a thing and it's straight forward. Even that is too complicated for many people, but it's gaining traction at least.

Anywho, I'm rooting for both!

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago

True but 2 > 1

[–] zzffyfajzkzhnsweqm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

Do you mean digital euro? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_euro

This would be the only thing that could break visa mastercard duopol. Hopefully 2028

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

an eu alternative would be just as susceptible to hate campaigns by bigots censoring content... look at the uk and the terfs (i know technically the uk isn't the eu but they're still europe)

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

shiiiit I wouldn't count on that anymore. With the age verification and ID stuff they would honestly at this point probably make it worse.

I used to be an advocate for European alternatives for US based tech companies but now? no way, started self hosting everything. it sucks.