OH WAIT I SEE ITS INCEST, games with explicit incest themes are getting clapped
it's true it effects everyone (banning ALL adult content'll do that) but lgbt+ is often the victim of targeted censorship when it comes to "censoring porn". this literally happened in real life with fanfiction.net (which is LITERALLY why ao3 exists btw). it's not a victim card when we've actually been the victims of it 😭
You're angry, and I understand. We are on the same side of this. I also want you beating your meat to what you want. Your porn and my rights are targets in their crusade.
Edit: the itch.io post on the matter cites a group called Collective Shout, a group allied with anti-gay organizations in the interest of censorship. https://www.giantbomb.com/steam/3015-718/forums/steams-new-rule-prohibiting-game...
This whole thing is bullshit, alot of game devs post their adult themed games on this website as a way of getting traction for their game.
Or devs post their games here purely because itch is easy to post for compared to some other indie game sites ive seen
(also why the fuck itch gotta ban my porn like this D:
Consider open a patreon alternative (I didn't do it at time), because when I've got the shadow ban here, Patreon deleted my account shortly after, also them don't care about 'incest', none of my games have such content and got deleted, but other games where incest was the focus, still are available (seems that they want to 'farm' big developers as long as they can).
Hello gamedev here, certainly most of the games are still available on the site, even when isn't listed on the searches, just go direct to the game/developer page; but don't expect any of the games will be on searches again, I've been on this sittuaion for over two years, and the 'shadowban' is irreversible.
It's kind of funny (in a non-humorous sense) that they're treating us like we're living during the prohibition. (Another game dev here.) It's pretty Orwellian that your games would have received the shadowban when they do not have the sort of content that Itch is claiming they're stopping. More than "pretty" Orwellian, actually and entirely unfair. Even moreso that the games won't show up in the search again. Such things are definitely reversible, but only if the company in question wants to reverse it, which is bullshit.
Hi, I am an AFAB comic creator who creates Adult and also SFW comics, and this policy brought on by ‘Collective Shout’ hurts me and my business- so, I do not see how this is ‘pro feminism’ in any way at all.
I hope Itchio can find a way of mediating the situation- and still be a good place for adult works.
And to anyone who wants to help fight censorship against Adult Media, please sign ACLU’s petition in their ongoing lawsuit against MasterCard:
Personally, if this decision isn't reversed, I will no longer be spending money on Itch.io and I won't be uploading my future projects here. I don't care if it's payment processors or whatever, they need to figure out a workaround like it's 1990 instead of throwing queer and nsfw creators under the bus.
sign this to fight back! your voice matters!
https://www.change.org/p/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups-stop-controlling-w...
I sincerely hope many things return to normal. These companies don't realize that if they keep attacking everyone with censorship, it will force a lot of people to go further into the dark web and then put themselves further at risk and these payment processing companies at risk too, with compromise. I understand the current action being taken to not scorch earth the site but yeah. Just my 2 cents.
tbh I think what itch did is already going scorched earth they could have just said "hey visa and mastercard have their heads up their asses because of extremist karens who support the pedofile movie, so until they do, we no longer take visa or mastercard directly, but you can still use them to buy games through paypal"