Collective Shout, while obviously a bigoted biased nuisance, have no real power in themselves and there have always been groups like them as long as NSFW existed. They are just finding some success in pestering the payment processors. But something tells me they are lying to said payment processors regarding the content hosted at places and saying it's illegal stuff or something. After all, why is it that numerous other places known for hosting NSFW content for decades are not having their payment options threatened while places like Steam and Itch are? Another part of the problem is that there's not really a way around said payment processors: https://www.naka.com/blog/payments-duopoly-global-battle If there were, it would be easy for Itch or anyone else being threatened to simply set up another way for people to spend. So there are multiple deeper issues going on here that need to be solved. Hopefully sooner than later because undoubtedly this will not be the end of places being hassled over the content they host.