Collective Shout Purge Sees Horror Games In Crosshairs
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A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
And kids, that's how I met your mother
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Called it. Soon all we’ll only be able to play baby games like Elmo’s big adventure puzzle book land, or something like that.
Nah, most likely Veggie Tales. Elmo is too woke and might cause dissonance with supremacists and Christian Nationalists. Oh, wait. I just repeated myself - sorry.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Why cant the payment processors just fucking ignore them oh my god
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Called it. Soon all we’ll only be able to play baby games like Elmo’s big adventure puzzle book land, or something like that.
I feel like even those games will be banned if we don't stop them now. My thoughts are that games like 'I am Jesus' is the end goal here.
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It's an asterisk...
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A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
gross, who would fuck them?
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Yay were back to the 2000s again, Jack Thompson rises again !
don't you mean Joe Lieberman?
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NOW that they've started curating, that has become way more likely to actually happen. They could have claimed to be a neutral carrier before. Actively filtering means they've decided to take on that responsibility, and the consequences for missing stuff.
They're morons
i assume you’re allowed to buy guns with them in the US? that’s WAY more directly attributable
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Wait, that's actually their logo? A butthole?
E Pluribus Anus.
So close to the Greendale flag from Community.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
I think there are probably some skeletons in the closets of Collective Shout's members. It's always projection with these people.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Honestly horrors get old when you can read in the news about "respected people" calling to exterminate Gaza and build beachfront cottages there. Even from just reading that and knowing that the same people can put anything onto your Android devices via a Facebook update or any of the Google applications update, on a whim. Nobody will even know.
About this - is it even legal to obey such pressure?
EDIT: I mean, how is it different from banning sellers by skin color when racists complain, or by religion when Muslims complain (all Hindus are Satan worshipers, didntcha knaw), or whatever else.
EDIT2: But it pains me to see how public offering was, in fact, an important part of market regulations, when everybody just ignores it without getting 9 lifetimes in jail for executives. I was against it at some point. That is - customer associations are important, and there are almost none, and when customer associations demand businesses to act like public offering, then it's almost as good as if enforced, and no such regulation is a good stimulus for customer associations to keep existing. But - feels shitty when it's in the law of most countries and hasn't been removed.
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We should, but also they aren't the root cause. If they're gone, there's nothing stopping a different group from doing the same thing (except for fear of retaliation). The ideal solution is to force payment processors to process any payment for legal content.
But they can be used as an example
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Why cant the payment processors just fucking ignore them oh my god
The people who would typically be expected to push back against collective shout also typically wouldn't be expected to do anything effective whereas the people involved with collective shout are the type of people who give politicians money.
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Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Isn't there some hacker group putting Collective Shout in the crosshairs?
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A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
New punk band name found
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I've heard this reasoning a few times. I don't buy it. Illegal content is already illegal. You aren't allowed to sell it. Policing particular content beyond that doesn't cover your ass. In fact, it implicates you if you do process payments for illegal content.
I've never seen any argument from them that this is the reasoning. The only rule they need is that you aren't allowed to sell illegal content on your platform. That covers everything. Going beyond that implies there's a different reason. They're being influenced by something else other than the law.
Illegal content is already illegal.
I think it actually is more complicated. There are anti obscenity laws in the United States where these companies (Steam and Itch.io, but also Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal) are based. The way those laws have been applied have been mostly permissive in the recent past, but I think there's reason to believe that this could change quickly. We may find ourselves in a situation where the highest court decides that this has all been illegal this whole time. Procedural and legal norms are feeling a bit shaky these days. People wonder why payment processors would bend over backwards on behalf of some group of aussie weirdos, but maybe being on their good side isn't the concern. Maybe it's that they're trying to self regulate to get ahead of any government action. Collective Shout may just be highlighting to them the most risky instances, making it so that they have no plausible deniability with regards to the content they are processing payments for.
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I would rather do all my online payments with direct bank transfers or even mail-in cheques than use crypto.
I'd love to see a move to somethiong like nano
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I don't care what gets delisted, I'm not buying your fucking monkeys
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The problem is that the people who care about the real problems aren't completely fucking insane like collective shout and their ilk.
I resent this statement, but I guess my insanity is tempered by my utilitarianism. Can't commit hate crimes against Mormons and Seventh Day Adventist right now due to their political influence. But one day I will feed their profligate priests to the Joshua trees.
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It's an asterisk...
TIL the thing under a cat's tail is an "assterisk."