This topic came up in an unrelated search, but it’s interesting.
My thoughts… the Trump budget director who’s in the part of the Epstein Files appearing to be from the FBI investigation into the huge trafficking ring’s foreign interference in US politics (from the time Vought withheld US Congressional aid to Ukraine in our official ally’s defense against Russian invasion) and who was a co-writer in the Republican party’s (culture war) Project 2025 is thought to be a source of the current wave of censorship?
A long English-language sentence that references US politics in a slightly angry tone can be difficult to parse. Let me rephrase. What I mean is that Russell Vought is one of the guys who made headlines about scandalous behavior in Donald Trump’s first terms of political office. He contributed to a political plan to take away civil rights of UA citizens. Project 2025 is relevant to the restrictions through US-based payment processors that censor low-profile creatives. The same political figures bolstering huge scams that involve sex crimes and horrific violence of historic scale. But I hadn’t thought before about this particular name’s possible connection to what’s happened on itch.io and other project host sites.
I guess it’s good to remember there’s more to the events like the mass shadowbanning on itch.io or the censoring legislation happening around the world than what any one of us will know about.