itch.io

Let me explain it to the best of my ability: You a politican, I a lobbyist, third party's have the politican under chain. If I want you to fuck someone day up, I can tell that third party to blackmail you.

To summarized in one sentence: Itch.io use Visa/Master Card as their method of getting payed, and Collective Shout lobby Visa/Master card to force itch.io to fuck everyone else up.

Visa and Mastercard got pressured, they pressured itch. Root cause, bad business practices that give payment processors too much power over consumers, creators, and platf9rms.