"Funny how a handful of activists who could all fit into one room can screw over an entire world — a world whose much louder voice can’t seem to push back."
Sadly, the answer is extremely easy: It's difficult to defend any kind of adult/nsfw creation. You will always meet pushback.
"Oh you defend those pedos? Weirdo"
"Maybe they are monitoring my website but AT LEAST they got rid of weirdos"
"Maybe my country changed to far-right regime but AT LEAST we got rid of unsafe stuff on the internet."
etc. etc.
So no matter what, it will be very easy for normies to point the finger and blame the other. (Unexpected Tool reference.)
Agree with the post, the thing that people care about is money or losing their position, so there needs to be a change in law or extreme boycott for payments.
Viewing post in The beginning has been made.
And damn, this isn’t just about NSFW content.
At any moment, you can just shout: “We’re protecting the children!”
And it almost doesn’t matter what the topic is.
Everyone seems to have forgotten that it’s the parents who are responsible for their kids and the content they consume.
If the parents don’t give a shit what their kid is doing online, then yeah — that same kid will end up doing all kinds of forbidden crap IRL by the time they’re twelve.
I get it — our frustration should probably be aimed at the payment processors who are making Itch.io scrub itself clean.
But at the same time, Itch.io shouldn’t just bend over and take it either without warning us.