1. United States
2. Mass.
3. Letter

Hello, I'm one of your constituents in Brockton Massachusetts, I'm writing to you to take up support of S.401 - Fair Access to Banking Act. Recently payment processors Visa and MasterCard were pressured by an Australian conservative organization Collective Shout to demand that retail platforms Steam and Itch.io remove certain niche but completely legal adult content from their storefronts, resulting in over 80 computer games removed from Steam, and Itch to restrict the visibility of ALL content tagged as containing Adult, NSFW, and even Queer and LGBTQ+ material. Payment processors like Visa and MasterCard and online payment processor PayPal in the past have gone after other platforms as well, such as Patreon, and OnlyFans, restricting the legal content that users of these platforms can produce and silencing the voices of marginalized creators who often aren't producing adult works but are still caught up in these sorts of purges for covering topics that aren't found in traditional mainstream media. This is nothing more than a blatant attack on the First Amendment, as well as the free market. Payment processors should not be the arbiters of morality, but Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and others have set themselves up to be just that. This is why I strongly urge you to support S.401 and to amend the bill to strengthen the language to cover all financial systems including credit card processors. What legal products and services people choose to buy is their own business, and it's not the place of any third party to restrict those transactions.