Itch.io deindexes NSFW games after becoming the latest target of skittish credit card companies and anti-porn group Collective Shout, catching an award-winning indie and more in the crossfire
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Always is the same thing. Why USA decides in other countries? Is Itchio international, right?
Collective Shout is Australian.
And banks are bigger than nations at this point, what they say goes.
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Lol what are you people ever going to do.
You can't just wait until you're mad to do something. It takes years building networks and getting everyone on board.
Totally doable if people had a bit of common sense but the reason why the right are kicking ass and doing this stuff is because people now are pretty brain washed and can't figure out how most of the stuff that they fight for are also the things they need to stop in order to prevent this stuff. But because they will never figure that out, you'll never get anywhere.
Just an example, we should have recognized the same tools that let content creators get paid was going to be the same tools that politicians would use to manipulate and lie to people popularising fascism again. Thanks PewDiePie
Tbh, I didnt know this group exists until this happened. So sometimes an event happens, you get mad, and you do something about it. Thats usually how most people come to action.
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Great great so what's the bloody point in itch now then?
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steam and itch capitulated here because indy games are small potatoes. the calculation changes if they start going after $70 AAA titles selling millions of copies.
They don't need to. AAA developers will start backing down on their own because they don't want to risk the confrontation.
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Start a new site and make them free to troll the card agencies.
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What's Pangaea got to do with this?
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I love the mental gymnastics of saying that you’re a feminist and also anti-abortion. The only way a woman gets pregnant is from sperm. And in 99% of cases, that was through the interaction with a man. And it may have not been consensual.
But either way, now said woman is bound to modify her body and life because of her interaction with a man, rather than being able to make her own choice, because you said so and you know what’s best for her. She’s “empowered” to be a good little breeder and produce either men or other breeders because apparently that’s what women are good for when you take away their autonomy, which is really what these groups want. Which, is also a big reason why they hate trans women. Trans women cannot do the only job a woman should have, which is to produce offspring.
They would build such an amazing society! With so many empowered women! Freed from the shackles of being able to think or decide for themselves, ready to fulfill their ultimate dream of producing offspring, taking care of offspring, and then dying.
its why they are called radical feminists
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its why they are called radical feminists
Except
Radical feminism** is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical re-ordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic contexts
But by making sure that women carry children to term whether or not they want to, it’s basically male run, they haven’t said anything about male/female equality.
It’s not the right terminology. Radical feminism has its own flaws, but this is Christian fundamentalism, nothing more, no matter how they label it.
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Fuck that. They can collectively shout into this asshole. All we gotta do is start a counter movement. Which I guarantee will be easier to grow than Collective Prudes.
We do have this petition for now link
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Start a new site and make them free to troll the card agencies.
Next step would be Collective Shout and the Payment Cartels bullying ISPs into blocking that site and also potentially alternative social media and anything else they don't like, basically forcing them into only being accessible through VPNs or through Tor/I2P, at least unless VPNs start getting blocked and Tor/I2P is deanonymized somehow thanks to these organizations' bullying as well.
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Hm? From a sample size of 10, 10 are still online on itch.io.
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Hm? From a sample size of 10, 10 are still online on itch.io.
Deindexed/delisted, not removed.
Try putting the names into the search field on the site, or browsing for them in the categories they are in.
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We do have this petition for now link
That's fine, but what if they say
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Deindexed/delisted, not removed.
Try putting the names into the search field on the site, or browsing for them in the categories they are in.
Did that ever work anyway? For the last few years i only find porn games via duckduckgo and "You might also be interested in".
edit: right, respective tags list no porn games anymore.
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They don't need to. AAA developers will start backing down on their own because they don't want to risk the confrontation.
And that's how many AAA are failing.
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Ironic, considering some of Jesus's best friends were hoes
Was Mary Magdelene a prostitute? Or is it possible that she was just a promiscuous (or possibly just headstrong) woman, and the book was written at a time when they was frowned upon?
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My brother in Christ, it's all the same ideals.
“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
Except Collective Shout is Australian (which is unsurprising, considering that AUS is also a hotbed of hate groups).
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Funny enough I have DRM free rips of these from my steam account.
How do I go about ripping my collection? I got some NSFW games that I want to back up, just in case things get worse.
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Ahh, yes
A collective against the objectification of women, which somehow has no Problem with the current system in america, pornography itself, and dosent advocate for anything except banning Video games.
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Payment processors shouldn't have this kind of power, it's insane.
It's not the first time this has happened. That first time set the precedent that the payment processors have a vast amount of power over the transactions that can occur on the internet. There wasn't a realistic way to push back on it and so they will continue to expand this for... whatever reason they are actually giving. IDK - I would have thought that legitimate adult content payments would be quite lucrative for these processors to handle, it's not like they're beholden to advertising like YouTube is and their insane content policies.
I mean, I cannot find a valid reasoning for it apart from the vague term "high risk" which explains nothing. This is the best I've found so far:
The adult industry is no stranger to regulation and stigma. But in recent years, payment processor censorship has emerged as a subtler, more insidious threat. Companies like Mastercard, Visa, and their underlying bank networks often issue sweeping mandates, particularly regarding “high-risk” content. These decisions typically happen behind closed doors, without public accountability or stakeholder input from the communities affected.
(bold emphasis mine)
To reduce perceived brand risk or avoid legal ambiguity, even when the content is legal.
TBH they are making themselves look pretty shitty as a brand by moving sex work and other adult content back to the darker deeper recesses where it becomes less accessible and harder to regulate properly in terms of safety and legality.