Direct link to their statement rather than reading an article talking about it: https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content
rather than reading an article talking about it
Good as a supplement, but the RPS article gives context itch.io is too much of a cowardly little bitch to include like: “Collective Shout describe themselves as a “grassroots campaigns movement against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls”, but are associated with outspokenly homophobic and anti-abortion Christian conservative groups, according to a now-deleted Vice article.”
Edit: and yes, the Vice article was removed because Vice’s ownership bitched out over covering Collective Shout.
Edit: and yes, the Vice article was removed because Vice’s ownership bitched out over covering Collective Shout.
Wow, holy shit. How fucking far Vice has fallen. There was a time they would go the extra mile to cover wild shit that no one else was doing. Greed and the wealthy’s critical need to have control over the media ruins everything.
We need zines to be a bigger thing again
I’m just learning about this and I wonder what has Steam done in this case to protect my rights as their client.
Uh … Steam actually did this same thing before Itch did.
That is exactly why I’m asking.
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When monero based game store?
The user experience of Monero is poor.
While it is true that getting your first credit card isn’t exactly a 10 second ordeal, people at least have their credit card. How are people going to acquire their first Monero?
If people have to, they will find a way😇
Wonder how long it will take for them to start going after LGBT+ stuff. Hope I’m wrong.
They did, day 0.
I think it’s time for a game platform divorced from Visa/Mastercard to rise to the occasion and step in for these platforms. Websites without these processors already exist, so the model is proven to work well enough (it’s less convenient for sure).
I wouldn’t think the US would be a good country for this hypothetical store though. I think it’s only a matter of time until they attack the publishers and studios directly. I’m not counting on the 1st amendment to help anyone.
Delist thousands of games, or deslist a handful of payment middle-men?
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I would understand forcibly banning/removing something, if it poses a real existential threat to the majority of people.
But religion fueled bigotry, in a place where you can CHOOSE to buy and play something, or completely ignore and hide if you’d like? Come on. Adults can decide if they want to have access to this content on their own, without a completely unrelated third party constantly trying to fucking inject themselves in between
But think of the children!
Those are Christians. They are widely known for that.
It’s the same religious organization that went after them NSFW games on Steam. Like the games or not, it’s always a slippery slope with this kind of censorship.
Of course it would be the bible thumpers. Gotta stick their nose into everyone’s business.
The fact that they’ve been successful at censoring stuff is a problem. It will likely embolden them to do worse.
Not just successful. But praised.
Even on Lemmy, if you go check out the initial threads on the Steam censorship you’ll see lots of “It is just incest and furry shit. Of course that should be banned” style comments. Less so here, but plenty of other boards and influencers immediately then chimed in that porn addiction is the real problem and you should watch a stream of a nice bigoted white man rather than give in to it and blah blah blah.
And it didn’t even start there. It ALSO isn’t the start, but the attack on Pornhub a few years back was a big watershed moment where this exact same attack was used (pressure the credit card companies to not do business with a morally dubious site). On the surface? Pornhub is full of revenge porn and child porn so it needs to be destroyed. No rational person would disagree with that… and everyone quietly ignored all the data showing that (and this was early 2020s…) facebook and twitter and instagram and so forth had MUCH more of both of those. But hey, Pornhub Corp complied and actually instituted some REALLY good policies that more or less equates to signed consent forms for every single performer. And… they were still on the shitlist. But everyone had stopped caring.
They have a little power in politics now, “give them an inch and they take a mile” is never not true.
If it’s against your religion to play porn games, fine. Don’t play them.
But fuck off if you think you can tell other people what not to play.
“it’s against my religion to eat fish.”
“Okay, then don’t eat fish.”
“It’s against my religion for you to eat fish”
“Fuck off.”
But that involves self regulation. And being able to resist temptation. And they’d just rather have temptation removed before they could encounter.
Yep. A fucking Australian group of Bible thumpers, specifically.
A loud minority.
This is on Visa/MasterCard. Nobody would’ve cared if they ignored them.
Basically I’m suggesting the credit corps are led by closet puritans anyways.
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Ah fuck their board head is Australian. FFS
Payment processors and financial institutions sure do seem to hold disproportionate amounts of power.
And a single woman and her organization seems to hold a disproportionate amount of power over the payment processors.
I don’t understand it. Payment processors could easily tell her to pound sand, but they don’t.
talk to anyone that works in the porn industry. Mastercard and Visa have ALWAYS been like this ever since the late 90s/early 00s. they set the rules for what the adult entertainment industry can produce and sell and only now are people discovering because of video games that they’ve been this way for decades.
Welcome to capitalism. 1 person and their company can influence an entire country while being top 10 retards.
When governments allowed payment processors to dominate the market to the point of duopoly/oligopoly.
And they don’t care when it’s actual sex trafficking of minors (JP Morgan in relation to Epstein).
This is just a distraction
Collective shout finacials year: 2024 revenue: 458043 employee_expenses: 107000 other_expenses: 215488 net_surplus: 135555 employees: total_fte: 2 full_time: 0 part_time: 1 casual: 4 volunteers: 15 donations_and_bequests: 389800 government_grants: 0 commercial_income: 0 expense_to_revenue_ratio: "70.4%" average_expense_per_employee: 39400 Leadership - name: Melinda Tankard Reist role: Founder, Movement Director public_socials: - Twitter: @MelTankardReist - Instagram: @collective.shout public_email_address: Not publicly listed salary: Not publicly listed - name: Caitlin Roper role: Campaigns Manager public_socials: - Instagram: @collective.shout public_email_address: Not publicly listed salary: Not publicly listed - name: Renee Chopping role: Campaigns Strategy public_socials: - LinkedIn public_email_address: r******@collectiveshout.org salary: Not publicly listed - name: Lyn Swanson Kennedy role: Campaigns Strategy public_socials: - Instagram: @collective.shout public_email_address: Not publicly listed salary: Not publicly listed - name: Coralie Alison role: Movement Operations Manager public_socials: - Twitter: @CoralieAlison - Instagram: @collective.shout public_email_address: Not publicly listed salary: Not publicly listedFuck.
These.
Fucking.
Shitsucking
Subhuman
Leeches
Lot of college-educated white women in these nonprofits lol
Wow, I might actually have to stop using itch.io, is nowhere safe from the craziest anymore? I dont even make NSFW games, but bending the knee to dickheads over some overtly religious bullshit isnt gonna work for me.
Agreed. Game and movie ratings already exist, who the fuck are they to say what we can/can’t access with MY credit card.
I don’t play those games nor use itch.io, but fuck this nonsense.
The credit card companies have a word. They shouldn’t exist.
I understand. And my point still stands. Fuck them (cc processors)
Absolutely. Fuck payment processors
It wasn’t Itch.io’s fault, but the fact that payment processing has been globally monopolized and can force it’s own arbitrary will on anyone without recourse.
Blame Visa and MasterCard and the christofascist scum from Collective Shout, who is responsible for pressuring the processors into harming the stores and artists.
Why anybody takes a “think of the children” organization seriously when their logo is a butthole is beyond me.
It just proves satire is dead and we live in a world full of idiots.
