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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.

So, you were wrong, you falsely accused me of spreading disinformation.

And now it is a problem when I was literally posting a link to show support for my claims when I was correcting other people on the forums and when I was trying to dispel misinformation here.

Yet it was one of my comments that got deleted?

And I know people can be wrong on the internet, that is exactly why I always try to fact check, and make sure to provide sources and support for any claims I make, especially if I am correcting someone else (and I fully welcome people to counter with better sources, if they believe I have made a mistake).

But apparently fighting misinformation, correcting others, and providing supporting evidence is a problem here. Good to know.

Reddit shouldn't have a login wall. And if it does for you, it is incredibily easy to get around it. It appears you don't want to do the most basic fact checking, and instead you just doubled down on judging a book by its cover. Even after I provided clear support for the opposite being true.

If you actually have a login wall, just put into wayback machine or a million other ways to bypass it. Here, I did the work for you, here is the pinned post in the subreddit:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250224051954/https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromoso...

And I am still waiting for you to actually back up what you are saying with at least a single piece of supporting evidence. It is the biggest feminist subreddit on Reddit, with over 14 million users, if there was even a whiff of it allowing any TERF content, you could easily find at least some source to support your (what is currently still a completely baseless) claim.

Their pinned post of the subreddit is: "Trans Women are Women." and that any transphobia or TERFs will be met with immediate ban from the subreddit.

They literally pinned that post, to make it as easy as possible for people to do their due dilligence and not spread misinformation.

If you don't want to take their word for it, or mine, do actually look up other sources that would indicate anything about them being TERFs. And then please do share, I will take back my words. But to me it seems, like you are the one who failed to do the absolute bare minimum, you judged a book by its cover, and are now spreading blatant misinformation.

You must be trolling.

That subreddit is now a a deeply conservative and anti-queer subreddit? 

Their banner is literally the rainbow flag and their subreddit description is "We are a welcoming subreddit and support the rights of all genders." Their pinned community post is "Trans Women are Women." that warns that any transphobia or TERFs will be met with immediate ban.

Once again, you must be trolling, but in the chance someone took your ridiculous post seriously, I'll clarify that I didn't say Collective Shout is far left, I only explained why many people make that mistake, due to support from various far left feminist groups.

The reason lots of people make this mistake is because their goals have a lot of overlap with with far left feminist groups. To the extent that they are propped up, and supported by these far left feminist groups that claim to be pro LGBTQIA+, but will fully support Collective Shout and give detailed instructions how to support them, and brigade for them.

Here is an example: a far left feminist subreddit with over 14 million users in it, was giving out detailed instructions on how to brigade for, and support Collective Shout. Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1jvjpsr/reporting_the_new_stea... This is also what eventually led to the Itch.io NSFW ban.

Ironically leading to the banning of thousands of LGBTQIA+ games here. I'm sure Collective Shout is beyond happy on all fronts, but they couldn't have done with without the support and boost from massive, much larger far left feminist groups, such as the one I linked above.

The reason a lot of people think Collective Shout are far left feminist, is because ironically they get a lot of support and are boosted by pro LGBTQIA+ far left feminist groups. Part of the reason Collective Shout got enough power in the first place is exactly these kind of far left spaces, such as reddit groups that brigade and attempt to cancel anything they deem misogynistic.

A far left feminist subreddit with over 14 million users in it, was even giving out detailed instructions on how to brigade for, and support Collective Shout. An example here: https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/1jvjpsr/reporting_the_new_stea... This is also what eventually led to the Itch.io NSFW ban.

Which is ironic now that the pro LGBTQIA+ far left feminists, with their actions now led to banning of the majority of LGBTQIA+ games on Itch.io. What a surprise, when you try to give power to those cancelling and censoring things, it will backfire, and even things that you believe in will eventually be hit. There is more overlap between conservative puritanical feminists, and far left feminists, than you would initially think. And the far left feminists prop them up.

Also it is a perfect example, of why all censorship, brigading, and attempts to cancel are bad. Because it won't stop at things you agree with, it will eventually hit things you care about, such as thousands of LGBTQIA+ games now being banned here.

This should be the top post everywhere! 

Petitions are great at raising awareness to an issue, but ultimately they won't change anything by themselves, and can be safely ignored by large enough entities like the payment processors.

The only real way you can stop their abuse of power, is through legislative changes. And those bills are directly targeting this problem.

A lot of the content that is now shadowbanned is LGBTQIA+. 

Not that it should matter, as this a massive overreach either way. Cultish censorship groups should not be dictating what type of completely legal things can consenting adults purchase for themselves. Be it violent content, taboo content, or LGBTQIA+ content, or anything else, as long as it is legal.

Of course, the most power here lies with the payment processors, Visa and Mastercard, who have a duopoly and can pretty much ban and destroy whatever they want for whatever reason they want. The consquences of this in the future are terrifying and reach far beyond just entertainment. They can pretty much bankrupt any company they want that doesn't do what they want, they can destroy any political capaign or party they want to, their power is completely unreasonable.

Currently, it is an awful look for Visa and Mastercard, who are abusing their duopoly position. It is also an awful look for Itch.io. Unfortunately, Visa and Mastercard are too large to fail, and will survive this abuse of power, but Itch.io will now slowly die due to this. This similar to what happened to Tumblr.

Edit: I saw a geat comment (by Marcus_Hallevy) in another thread that should have more attention:

"Those in the US. Contact your local representatives and tell them that in exchange for your vote that they should support Bill 401 and 987."

This is on point, and might be the only way we can really fight against the abuse of power by the payment processors. Petitions such as: https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-w... are great at raising awareness to an issue, but ultimately they won't change anything by themselves, and can be safely ignored by large enough entities like the payment processors.

The only real way you can stop their abuse of power, is through legislative changes. And those bills such as ware mentoned in that comment are directly targeting this problem.