hey itch! this is straight up fascism.
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way to devalue the term fascist, what next? you're gonna call em nazis? Itch can't help it if the people in charge of handling the money wants to swing that monopoly around. Visa and Mastercard are the ones swinging their power around to have a say in not just our lawful purchases but they're already doing it in worldwide, especially Japan. For Itch to do anything about it would make them unable to operate at all
I agree that it is mainly Visa and Mastercard who are at fault. Even more so the group of conservatives that convinced them to go this far. My issue is with itch immediately caving to them and not at least try to fight back. I understand that there is little they can do but straight up admitting defeat and cater to big money kind of shows where the priorities are.
I am not devaluing the term fascism at all. History has shown time and time again that fascism starts with the banning of art. Google "degenerate art" or read this interesting article https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-propaganda-fascism-target-artists-zubizarreta...
Also I didn't call itch themself fascist. Banning certain types of art - and I would call video games art - is.