Post by squirtlel in itch.io's censorship of adult and erotic media is unacceptable.

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Boycotting itchio empowers groups like collective shout even more, you show that them weaponizing payment processors can take down any storefront they deem to have content they don't see as appropriate.

Unfortunately going after payment processors is hard, it will take major law changes to break up the duology or create restrictions to what payments they must accept or having another big contender like crypto which I'm not a big fan of but does eliminate the control the big payment processors have over what people are allowed to buy.

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Shardeyes119 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

Yeah I agree. Itch is in a tough spot they most likely are mad to be in too hence why it was a better idea to go look upward in the chain of problems. I wasn't trying to imply boycotting Itch would be a good idea; quite the contrary. Crypto is not a go too I'd enjoy either... Found this link to petitions that allready has quite a few participants.
Here is the link for thoses that missed it.
https://stop-paypros.neocities.org/

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Saucealicious118 days ago(+1)

We need to go after Collective Shout and the payment processors in this case. They're overstepping here, not the storefronts. Steam and itch can't really do much if the threat is "do this or you can't sell anything on your platform anymore", other than pivot to crypto which the vast majority of customers are not gonna do.

In the US, there's the "Fair Access to Banking Act".
There's also this petition which everyone can sign: https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-w..

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