Currently people are contacting Visa and Mastercard, en-masse, in an effort to get them to explain why they are banning legal content from being transacted through their systems. These arbitrary restrictions caused companies, such as Steam, Itch.io, and others to pull violent and adult video games from their platforms. They continue to remain silent on the reason WHY they enforced the restrictions on the companies. I surmise they are gagged from speaking through likely threat of regulatory pressure. May I introduce, Russ Vought, a co-writer for Project 2025, Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget, AND Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. files.consumerfinance.gov/f/… This man has already publicly stated his desire to have pornographic content, violent video games, and other types of content "harmful to children", banned from the internet. This claim he makes is not based on unbiased scientific testing. In a two minute clip posted on YouTube by The Intercept the following transcript, highlighted in yellow, shows his intended starting point (start with children), and then he cuts himself off from explaining the next part of the plan, of violent video games, etc, as that route had failed twice already in the past few decades. youtube.com/watch?v=0noIS9lm… i.imgur.com/CxpcUOs.png theintercept.com/2024/08/16/… Now, as his position in the CFPB, he has ultimate authority over payment providers and banks, and he has likely been abusing this power to strong-arm changes in these privately owned businesses regarding content he specifically had shown his distaste and hatred towards previously. All clearly telegraphed before hand, many years ago. This was ALL done in the guise of protecting the children. Admittedly, it is a very solid tactic, at the core. But, if you use the mantra of protecting the children, it tends to mean that it's just a ploy, usually to further a specific agenda. They are a threat against the United States, nay, the entire world. They are a threat against our democracy, a threat against free speech, and a threat against gamers, a threat against media in general. These are the same people who believe violent video games cause violent things. An entire generation of individuals have been playing Grand Theft Auto, playing Doom, Quake, and other games, but we are not currently, nor will we face a worldwide pandemic of armed car robberies, driving on sidewalks for the fun of it, or people running around with sawed off shotguns killing demons, or raping people, because a video game was made exploring the content. Those in power have been eroding free speech in the law. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) provides immunity to online platforms from liability for content posted by their users. They are actively attempting to kill this protection to further their goals outlined in Project 2025, by passing liabilities of their userbase onto the operators via financial regulation threats and pressure, thus killing speech directly, while still keeping in the shadows publicly. "He filmed the crimes and posted monetized rape videos on P*rnhub, earning revenue for him and the site owners." x.com/BillAckman/status/1898… This is their attempt to kill section 230 immunity. You should not be frightened that they MAY come into power, they are ALREADY IN POWER. They are exercising it spectacularly, taking baby steps to erode away your speech, and we've all been asleep at the wheel.

It's like watching a guy shove his penis into a vagina he sees has chlamydia, and he's like, "Yeah, you know what, that's safe." That's what it's like being a PHP user. I know this is serious, but it's like I'm too autistic and I'm just realizing all the qualms about PHP were right.

I'm killing emails. Field is gone. No more password resets possible. This is the best course of action.

Starting to think the USA needs to sponsor an open source bug bounty system for core internet software infrastructure...

What the fuck is wrong with you @Outlook ??? Why would you be confirming that an email is alive to the attacker when I'm trying to report something as spam/phishing?

If you haven't updated PHP yet, you're cooked. - Not us If you have updated, but kept your sites online overnight, you are probably still cooked. - Us Someone released the pathway to exploitation early, everyone got screwed ALL THE WAYS, unless, MAYBE, you shut your stuff down once the notice of 2 RCEs were available for PHP. Want to help me monitor real-time data exfiltration?

Were we impacted by the hack? I honestly can not say with certainty. As such, assume we were. Our data appears to be fine for now, but if chaos happens later, you will know we were a target. I'm considering putting in a work order after I post this to install a new server to replace our current system, which is a fresh install, with more drive capacity.

Seems someone released the PHP exploit while I was sleeping. Fun. Were the patches not available yet or something?

Yea so i pulled rule34xxx and all my other sites offline for now cuz of the incoming potential exploit. Maybe bit of over-reaction but for my for peace of mind. We're not hacked, no panic pls. Sorry for the lame downtime message, i had little time.

Gonna take the site down tomorrow morning until they release the patch. Remember that bad feeling I had? Wonder if this was the gut feeling...

I feel like I've done a whole body work out for 20 hours, followed by taking a light tap from Butterbean.

The Highlands of Scotland, are effectively Australia for beavers. Truly a prison.

I'm a big fan of the Malfoid trend. Probably one of my favorites thus far.

I used to think money was power, but I've finally realized it is favors.

Power that hides from documentation, is power that knows it can't survive the sunlight...

I put together a video going over the most damning parts of the EU Kids Act. It would make playing unsupported games online in the EU illegal, no joke. This is way bigger than SKG, most of the industry seems to be sleeping on this. youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9nY…

Just watched The Marvels and I now feel like I am having a cinematic identity crisis. For years I've watched bad movies. I've witnessed THE Neil Breen making cheap, chaotic, "all-knowing" films. Completely unhinged. But those had heart. You could feel an actual human (or alien) behind and in front of the camera, swinging for the fences with a dream and a message. This one feels like executives noticed their streaming service needed a membership bump, so they created a movie in the way you'd create a quarterly report to inflate numbers to justify their continued existence... I need names and a support group. They really did the cast dirty.

A T-Rex is just a bigger kangaroo.