part 1: https://itch.io/t/483112/is-itchio-a-platform-or-a-publisher
okay, so "No Time To Play" came in and said:
>Belatedly, Itch.io is neither a publisher nor a platform. It's a marketplace. Think of is as a mall where you can rent space and set up a store where you can sell your wares. Renting out space is a business, and a business is within its rights to throw people out if they're being disruptive or breaking the law on its premises. That doesn't limit anyone's free speech, since there are many other places where one can offer a game for download. And last time I checked, hate speech was illegal in every civilized country, including the US where Itch.io is based. So yes, Itch.io admins can delete games at their discretion and still be fully within their rights. Making vague threats over the possibility is only going to make reconciliation less likely.
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this raises an even larger legal question. can someone please cite the law that enables a marketplace to have the right to trim content at their will?
also, YOU HEARD IT FROM A MODERATOR, ITCH.IO IS NOT A PLATFORM AND NOT A PUBLISHER but they still 100% claim to have the right to remove content. if they've told you at any point it is a platform or publisher, they actually (probably illegally) lied to you
i also refuse to take their word at face value of their claimed legal rights. clearly it would make a few users more comfortable if this sites admin team had valid paperwork.
assuming itch.io is a marketplace, what legal law on record gives them the right to delete content at will? i'll only believe a link on an actual US law list relating to types of business and their rights
oh yeah, and once i have that, it'd be nice to see official linked proof it *is* a marketplace
EDIT: for the sake of preventing certain people from lying i've gone and recorded the marketplace response
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190613162510/https://itch.io/t/483112/is-itchio-a-...
https://i.imgtc.ws/4bDFeEr.png
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https://web.archive.org/web/20190613164738/https://itch.io/t/483112/is-itchio-a-...
