In the process of removing every NSFW game from Itch via targeting the payment processors,  they had taken down various games that decried sexual violence, societal pressure around sex, or otherwise shed light on the danger women live under in a good way.

For example, the game "He F----- The Girl Out of  Me", which discusses sex work, sexual assault, and trauma in a way that does not glorify or fetishize   it. It explicitly points out hypocrisies in people glorifying sex work as a grand act of rebellion, something that Collective Shout supposedly agrees with. On-top of that, it discusses the trans experience, and censorship of their (or others') experience with sex work, and their story. Something Collective Shout has perfectly reflected as a worst-case scenario.

It's not the only one.

This censorship, especially of queer voices, is extremely dangerous.  They cast a giant net, hurting countless innocent people in the process. It is hypocritical, it is antithetical to their end goals,  and it actively censors queer and marginalized voices simply for expressing their sexuality.

It's a complicated, confusing, and frustrating mix of shit. "Hey sexual abuse is wrong" is something that everyone should agree with, but stomping out anything that has to do with sexual abuse or even just sex in general is NOT the way to deal with it! You don't remove a splinter by chopping off the arm. The group Collective Shout is a group that seems to really want to do good but is doing so by punishing anyone who has ever even touched sex work with a ten-foot-pole. 

The game "No Mercy" that was (supposedly) the catalyst for this whole thing is a pretty disgusting game, absolutely. I don't think that a game like that should have been made. But I do not think that the answer to "there was a gross game that made me uncomfortable" should have been "force this website to take down anything and everything that makes me feel icky"

I seriously don't envy the itch team. I know everyone says that they should have fought harder, but we don't get to see what happened behind the scenes-- there could have been legal threats, threats from the credit card companies that required immediate (less than 24-hour notice), itch could have been fighting them for awhile, they could have caved in and rolled over immediately-- we don't know. All we really know is that a group that has lofty goals that claims to care about people's wellbeing is pressuring credit card companies to fuck people over. 

i agree but whats important here is that even know the games targeted are very disgusting most will agree however this opens pandoras box and not just a little bit: The issue we have now is another group not agreeing with something and strong arming the same way for believes that they dot like a great example is Furry stuff Or Even LGBTQ+ whats stopping a different party saying "you know what i dont like that people sexualze animals" Now i am not LGBTQ+ and personally furry content makes me feel queezy  my brain directs differently im not judging. I just dont think someone should tell me how i can spend my money when its not an illegal act or service.
Also even know this group Collective Shout says there for LGBTQ+ they are not that is something there using as leverage they have posted on their website that they dont agree with it they also support a group that is 100% against LGBTQ+ Video On this
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Highley recommend the video  since it goes through everything but this is the start to something real bad