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if you are EU citizen please reach out to cab-mcgrath-contact (at) ec.europa.eu here is sample text: Hello, I am disturbed by the situation around digital marketplaces Steam and itch.io who provides services in EU. As a customer I feel impacted by this issue when australian activists group is making demands to censorship the marketplace worldwide and abuses payment processor companies to this. That it is not a single excess of credit card companies documents the following: In past similar situation already unfolded many times when credit card companies tried to prevent legal transactions https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/12/visa-and-mastercard-are-trying-dictate-what-you-can-watch-pornhub> https://www.newsweek.com/why-visa-mastercard-being-blamed-onlyfans-banning-explicit-content-pornography-1621570> In case of Steam and itch.io it is about adault games of fiction when no harm is done to a living being because the characters are virtual. In case of steam the censorship is around hundreds of legal games. And for itch.io the censorship resulted in taking down more then 17.000 adault games and few more thousands of NSFW games with a totla of more then 20.000 legal games censored. I am disturbed that payment processor can act as a censor of legal transactions for the EU member country. Similarly as Holy Bible is freely available with the desciption of incest should these games for adaults remain available. Similarly as is film Irreversible 2002 with graphic role played rape scene of actress Monica Belluci should the adault games remain available. To my understanding from publicly available sources and limited access to evidence the companies in question acting as self proclaimed censors are: Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, Stripe and possibly more. requesting censorship on world wide market including EU. This seems to me as a case of dominant market force discriminatory trade practice.

EU member countries may try to seek to apply regulation of dominant market force.

In the EU, a dominant market position itself isn't illegal, but abusing that position to discriminate or stifle competition is prohibited. Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) specifically prohibits companies with a dominant market position from engaging in abusive practices. 

Price discrimination: Charging different prices to different customers for the same product without a valid justification

in Czech Republic the relevant agency for processing such complaint is UOHS.cz

twitch should be able to use this to fine stripe and legally enforce them to back out.

also in EU there is https://commission.europa.eu/about/organisation/college-commissioners/michael-mc... who oversees consumer protection which should include the doinant market force regulations.

We should try to get him involved in this.