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I admit that it wasnt direct payments u got me there but i want you to hear this theory and tell me whats wrong. 

1. Itch is told by either the UK law or Visa Mastercard to moderate the explicit content on its platform

2. To do this they shadow ban adult games from the algorithm to have admins look over the content of the games

3. If the games has very on the face incest themes it gets deleted because that is the content the law or visa mastercard is worried about (note I saw people complain about incest games being renamed on steam so its not just itch) 

4. When they have scrubbed all the explicitly incestous games, the shadowban is lifted

Honestly I doubt they unlisted it to manually review, its more like "oh we have very little time, lets do this to buy time" as they can then try to figure some long term solution out. The deletion of content that dont abide by laws to begin with is kinda an aside, more of a sanitation thing which might help protect them if they're to be reviewed externally later or make a case for why Visa/Mastercard should allow the site to use them as payment processor.

I'm not arguing against this being about the UK law and payment processing, but its way more aggressive and a level above incest content, and more about adult games being accessible by minors at all. Unfortunately we'll either see heavy region locking, or requirements to identify with government ID's in the future, something that no sites really have the infrastructure for and is so incredibly unsafe security wise. And lawmakers and lobbyist KNOW this, which is why they're pushing for it as it means effectively banning it on the pretense that "oh they cant comply"

what about the corporate fucks get the sticks out of thier asses and everything gets back to what its supposed to be incest porn is fine if nobody is under age