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It now exists a site dedicated to fight back Collective Shout and censorship

A topic by Tenkarider created Jul 30, 2025 Views: 2,554 Replies: 23
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Someone finally did what i was looking for, namely a site extremely useful to deal with this situation:

https://stopcollectiveshout.com/

EDIT: i don't know the specific reason, but the site migrated into another domain:

https://stopcensorship.net/

My two cents is that it's way more accurate to talk about stopping censorship, rather than Collective Shout, since those fanatics are pawns and scapegoats for the actual culprit of censorship

Why a site is good? Each discussion and social is an endless flow of truths, opinions, flaming and any other type of comments, while it's ok and everything, you'll never be able to grasp the whole picture from that, they also are ephimeral, so you'll inevitably lose track of the accurate infos, no matter if the source is reliable or not.

In a site like this you'll always be able to know more about what's happening, who is our enemy and what it's possible to do meanwhile.
This site also gathers several useful resources, templates and other material for doing some activism.
You can also find historical facts documented with sources.

I suggest to have a good look at it, maybe not in one go since there's a lot of stuff, but informing yourself is your right and also what we need: spreading awareness is very important.

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I'll also link this itch discussion:

https://itch.io/t/5129417/resourcelink-compilation-for-organizing-against-censor...

It's full of other useful links and information

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NEWS: i don't know the specific reason, but the site migrated into another domain:

https://stopcensorship.net/

My two cents is that it's way more accurate to talk about stopping censorship, rather than Collective Shout, since those fanatics are pawns and scapegoats for the actual culprit of censorship.

I also noticed that this site keeps improving and updating as we speak, it's really worthy to check it out periodically

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I hope there's an Australian version of this because their unAustralian antics are causing us locals shame.

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Maybe it's me, but i didn't understand what you said, sorry... :(

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Are you talking to me or elinore10?

Yeah i was replying to you

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"I hope there's an Australian version of this" The site is for US/UK residents only.

"because their unAustralian antics" behaviour unfitting our good nature here

"are causing us locals shame" Collective Shout is an Australian group and being associated them - even by location - is not good.

Ok, understood

I rememeber there was a couple of petitions it was possible to sign even if not living there (i'm Italian, i could sign them), the others are about contacting their own reps so that's another story

Anyway it keeps updating and there are other generic interactions in the site for spreading and stuff

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Jesus when everything is just laid out like it is on this site it feels genuinely hopeless.

There really is nothing good to look forward to in the world anymore

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Well, as a matter of fact at the moment we're still there and most of our rights as well.

The purpose of the site is not to make grow up negative thoughts, but rather to allow people to learn about what's happening and what we can do together. Personally i think that the problem of socials is that there's never enough focus on such arguments so information and awareness just fail to be spread among people, and that slows down the process of making us join together to fight for our rights.

Gamers are billions, many of them probably share your feelings or the feelings of other people here, so we are not alone

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This is a great effort, but that site should also detail recent Australian censorship efforts  (and digital id requirements) with links for Australian MP/representative contacts as it has for the US and UK.

There should be several mentions to what Collective Shout did, i don't know if there's a way to to let the guy of the site know other information directly from his site, though.

From his reddit post maybe it's possible to PM him directly there:

https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/1mawk6u/payment_processors_are_forcing...

Never heard about anti-censorship initiatives in Australia, but that's just me maybe

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What is interesting is that https://stopcensorship.net/ website is censored and delisted from Google searches. If you search "Stop Censorship" or "stopcensorship" on Bing, DuckDuckGo, or Yandex, that website is the first or second result. But on Google it doesn't appear no matter how far down the results you go. 

Even if you specify the search with the subtitles that appear on search in one of the other search engines for stopcensorship.net, such as "Join the Fight Stop Censorship", or "Stop Censorship Defending Digital Freedom" (without the quotation marks), which should definitely find the website, it doesn't appear on Google search at all. The only way to find it, is if you already know and have the full website link and search "stopcensorship.net" at which point you could just go there directly.

Google has made sure you would never come across that website organically, if you are looking into information about anti censorship.

Someone should bring more attention to this. Maybe make a post on Reddit, or a thread on X or Bluesky, or somewhere with more visibility, because very few people are on these forums. I would do it myself, but I don't have any of the mainstream social media accounts.

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Heck, you're right! Damn, not cool at all... Google. Definitely sounds like a medal of valor for Stopcensorship.net

As a matter of fact, Google doesn't appear among the suggested search engines, in order to fight back censorship(the ones suggested from stopcensorship).

Thanks for pointing that out, my reach is not so wide but i'll see what i can do as well 

Some people wondered about a site version for australia, i just stumbled on this site:

https://stopcensorship.com.au/

It doesn't seem to match with the style of the site i mentioned in the OP, so probably it's not the same guy.

This one seems to be about australia, didn't investigate it... try to check it out, what do you think about it?

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Keep up the good fight, it seems like these censorship freaks won't stop until the world bends to their will.

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Thanks! Sounds like that's the case, but as far someone will fight back, it will be a good sign

Is anyone making any sales after this collective shout nonsense? I know adult games are deindexed but it seems people are not wanting to buy games from Itch after this current mess.

Hm, i wonder as well... after that wave of indignation, at the moment the threads in the community seem to be calmed down, i don't know about the Discord server. So you mean they don't wanna buy any game in general from itch?

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I haven’t been here with a creator account for long and don’t know what was normal in the past, but as for recent activity…? In the past several weeks, I’ve seen people reject Itch.io entirely because of the mass deindexing, miscommunication, and paymemt delays.

Maybe that shift away is happening on a bigger scale. If it is, it wouldn’t be noticeable in conversation in these forums; the people who bounced wouldn’t be here.

I’ll add: waning interest in Itch.io wouldn’t be surprising. Every act of censorship tends to have a chilling effect long-term.

Yeah, to be honest, even if i joined something like 5 years ago i actually started to actually navigate itch few months ago, for my latest game, so i don't really know how it was before... few time later the breaking news.

I guess that Collective Shout and the actual culprit are laughing at us, since no matter the consumer's reaction, in any case it's a win-win for them...

After all what they want is erasing all we players built and shared among us: what better way to do that than nuking the places in which we gathered and, as a plus, see their victims reacting by scattering elsewhere, instead of gathering even more than before and fight back?

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men, i hope this work!!!!!

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Thanks, i hope that as well, but i guess it requires an ongoing shared effort, and most important we must not forget with time