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Ignoring the part about how itch has been handling this

statements of facts are not defamation. defamation involves knowingly or easily proven false information. stating who is behind this is not something they could be taken for with defamation

They haven't even changed their guidelines yet. The response pages that say "why" something has been removed are the old ones. Thats how fast these assholes have switched. And its not just NSFW games. Several completely SFW games with LGBT characters are ALSO getting removed.

ACLU Petition against the shitheads behind the push.
https://action.aclu.org/petition/mastercard-sex-work-work-end-your-unjust-policy

And once again, Itch made ZERO EFFORT to discuss any of this with the community. They made their choice.

Theyve already started deleting some of the games on top of deindexing, and are telling the game devs they aren't going to be paid the money already recieved. Boycotting Itch is not only reasonable, its necessary to show them how bad they fucked up.

Itch made this decision overnight, no discussion, and has also not been paying out the devs involved, according to some of these devs. This is not "just the payment processors", Itch is complicit. They payment processors are the main problem, but itch is not a blameless victim.

Itch has the option to stand up

They could have made a public stink about all of this, and put the pressure on the right wing groups, but chose not to and to silently cave.
Boycott is the only option. If they don't reverse,  they deserve to fail

This behavior from more platforms is just disgusting. They are shooting themselves in the goddamned foot, just like tumblr did years ago. Itch has the choice to stand up, and tell exactly what is going on, and make an actual stand. If anyone wants this to change, they're going to have to hurt Itch for caving to these disgusting demands. I will no longer be purchasing anything on itch, and encourage everyone else to do the same unless they reverse this decision. People have choices that are not mastercard, and  if platforms actually stood up to them, it would hurt mastercard. Fuck you Itch.

Thanks. Its going to be a while before this game is FINISHED, but I'm going to keep working on it until it gets there.

Thanks, we're going to continue to work on it into a full game over time, so there will be plenty more to play eventually.