Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content

US local phone numbers, English:

Script:

I’m calling to urge you to immediately end your new policy that unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers even more vulnerable. I’m also asking you to sit down with stakeholders- specifically sex workers and adult content creators- to develop solutions that ensure equitable access to financial services, create stability, and reduce harm for sex workers.

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Why call some drone in an outsourced call center?
Find out the home addresses and numbers of their C-staff and board. Call them, send them physical letters. Picket their homes.
I don't understand this fully, from a profiteering gluttons standpoint, why wouldn't they want to process anything and everything and make all the money they can?
- Probably image. They don't want to be associated with something they think the public will perceive as negative. Bitcoin was vilified initially because "criminals were using it" (but let's forget about the part where cash is also untraceable). So they prob don't want to be the "credit card company that supports pedophiles and rapists"
Found this on bsky, hope it helps.
- AMEX killing it again. Just sucks they got beef with Costco, who also kill it. I don't want to be asked to take sides.
  
  Costco would win. No question.
- Thanks for sharing! I'll convert this to plain text with clickable single-dial phone numbers and emails and repost tomorrow morning
This is what we should be doing. How many people can we pull together to make this work?
- In Lemmy, there are dozens of us, but that doesn't mean we can't recruit people we know who are on Facebook, Instagram, Xitter, Bluesky, TikTok, etc.
And what‘s an underpaid, outsourced call center agent supposed to do? This will do nothing. Stop buying shit with their services.
- Don't know why you're being downvoted. This IS how you stop it.
- From what I can tell, they're just trying to replicate what the religious lobbyists did to cause this situation in the first place, so they've shown that this works.
- What are we realistically supposed to do? Fax dollar bills to people?
  
  Stop buying things. Go to your bank and withdraw cash. Write checks.
  Catch a goose and catch an octopus. Wring the ink out of the goose, pluck a feather out of the octopus, dip the feather in the ink, and write a check like they did in the good old days.
- They tell their manager. That's it. Enough of them tell their manager, that manager has to tell their superior. It goes upwards from there.
  
  Their managers are also call center employees who will filter that noise out. That’s one of the reasons to employ a call center.
- "just don't use money bro"
  
  There aren’t any other options than credit cards in the US to pay without cash?
- They suppose to say they need more people to work because they get more calls because of executives decisions.
- I think the reasoning is something like this: these companies employ such call center employees for a reason, either they legally have to for one reason or another or they've determined that in some way, it is more profitable to have the capacity for people to call them than not. If the call centers are swamped, then they still cost the company money, but their benefit to the company is reduced, because the "real" calls can't get through in a timely fashion. As such, it's in the company's interest to avoid having people spam them, and if the policy those people want changed won't really cost the company anything to change, then just doing that might be the most profitable option for them.

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