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.