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Online censorship is crushing indie webcomics

What HN thinks

A thread about censored raccoon comics that spends most of its energy arguing whether it's censorship, and the rest reading the panels on a laptop.

Payment processors are the real problem
Many argue the core issue is credit card networks and payment providers refusing legal transactions. Some want processors legally required to stay neutral as society goes cashless.
Platforms may choose their content
Others say platforms banning smut is editorial choice or taste, not censorship. Some add that the queer framing is spin and the issue isn't orientation-specific.
Self-host, syndicate, find alternatives
Some urge creators to self-host and syndicate (POSSE), use RSS, the Fediverse or crypto. Others note that discovery, defederation and network effects make this hard.

Consensus: Most agree payment processors refusing legal content is a genuine problem. Whether platform-level content bans count as censorship stays contested.

Recommended in the comments

Fediverse (other): Suggested as a home for webcomics with less censorship risk, though others pointed to defederation of NSFW instances.
RSS (other): Cited as the decentralized way to follow creators without platforms.
Patreon (service): Mentioned as one of the few payment options that is mostly not censored, though fragile.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 1 day ago.

Points: 90
Comments: 64
Best rank: #5
Posted: 2026-10-25 by Tomte
Category: Culture society

webcomics censorship lgbtq payment-processors social-media content-moderation

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