First they came for steam, then they came for itch.io .

[mora@pawb.social]

Reminds me of: the venn diagram of religious creeps and bigots is a circle.

[lost_faith@lemmy.ca]

Collective shout is Australian, in Taylor's Lakes Victoria

[scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech]

I hoard media for many reasons, including this one.

[orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts]

I have a ton of comics, books, and old games/consoles. My dream is to one day have a room dedicated to nothing but disconnecting and retro culture. A room that is not tainted by the current state of everything.

[nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de]

Yes, but the american payment processors are the ones in power and actually carrying out these punishments. They could've simply chosen to ignore that group and nothing would've happened.

[jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works]

True, given past history it's just a nice excuse

[ieatpwns@lemmy.world]

I’m tired of all this far right puritanical bullshit

[scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech]

Keep on going, it's a good dream to have! (Get a good insurance policy too...)

[queenhawlsera@sh.itjust.works]

Collective Shout isn't a religious organization, they're a TERF one that basically blames porn for the existence of transpeople and has been trying to ban it from the internet entirely.

[sophocles@infosec.pub]

The end goal of every authoritarian entity is to control currency. Your access to food, entertainment, medical care, quality of life, etc. all go through your exchange of currency. If they control the currency, they control all of the above. NSFW video games are just a small foot in the door, I can see this encroaching onto every aspect of society soon

[mobotsar@sh.itjust.works]

Hey, corn is nutritious.

[natryamar@monero.town]

Imagine a version of the game launchers/sites where you could pay with monero and be anonymous.

[otp@sh.itjust.works]

They got Andrew Tate off of Spotify, which is a win though...

I can understand if they're fighting human trafficking and such. But going after porn video games, which generally don't feature real people or generally glorify human trafficking etc., I'm not sure why this is part of their scope.

I could also see this group being against Donald "Grab 'em by the pussy" Trump.

I haven't seen the games that are getting targetted. I've heard it isn't all porn games. What's the criteria for removal?

[doc_crankenstein@slrpnk.net]

They were originally a Christian organization that has rebranded into a TERF org.

Same shit, different coat of paint basically.

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

Yeah, so in other words, it's all pushed by the religious. Same shit

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend

Andrew Tate is scum of the earth and Spotify should have dropped him, not the payment processors

Again: payment processors should and must not be the ones deciding what is okay and what is not. Just because they did something accidentally right doesn't make it a good thing

[otp@sh.itjust.works]

It wasn't the payment processors that got Andrew Tate off of Spotify, it was the actions of the activist group

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

Ah, my bad, but the point still stands for those action groups. I do NOT need evil religious organizations telling me how to live my life. That goes without mentioning that the hypocrisy of those groups always infuriates me because in the name of Jesus/Allah/FSM it's always okay to commit the most grievous sins, as long as you tell others that they're evil.

[kolanaki@pawb.social]

I mentioned in another post about this article that it was curious Nintendo's store isnt affected, but I am just thinking now that might be becsuse they aren't in the US and may not use the shitty payment processors thst pressured Valve and Itch.

[otp@sh.itjust.works]

I agree with what you've said, but their (stated) mission is about fighting sexual violence against women.

Regardless of what any religious text says, that sounds like a good thing to fight against. In practice, I think things have gotten a bit out of hand here.