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Itch.io 'deindexes' all NSFW games, blames same anti-porn group that campaigned against Steam
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I don't care about porn games, but:
The fact MasterCard, Visa, and PayPal can censor lawful content is problematic, to say the least.
This has been a thing since at least 2010 when it happened to WikiLeaks.
see also: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/congress-escalates-pressure-on-tech
Ridiculous on their part.
With crypto going more and more mainstream, it won't be long before another payment system shows up and starts competing against Visa/MC and Paypal.
They are opening up a lane for a competitor to fill a fairly large gap.
First line of the bitcoin whitepaper deals with this lol.
Could this be some kind of tactic to manipulate the crypto market?
There's way more direct ways to manipulate the crypto market than whatever this would be.
These are the people whose business depends on the USD existing so maybe but it'd be stupid
Start using monero
I don't think it's just a matter of personal responsibility; it's part of the socio-economic system, whoever controls the capital can force others depending on it to do things they don't want to. In this case PP/MC/Visa forcing itch.io.
I don't see why I'd have to prove anything to some random payment providers. Their job is to handle my payment for any legal purpose, not to morally judge me because some conservative organization from the other side of the world told them to.
People are entitled to equality in service. Porn is no more illegal then alcohol. If you can go to a grocery store and buy a bottle of whiskey on credit, then why should porn be treated any different?
Dude. Stores have age restrictions. If they lie and steal their parents card... thats a parental issue.
Personally i have no interest in such content. I simple do not wish to have corpations making decisions for us peasants without going throigh the proper democratic process.
And there isnt much difference, in fact nothing stops people from buying alcohol online.
How am I being dishonest? Please explain.
That's up to government regulations and something that people can vote on - not something the payment processor can suddenly control and block
The reason why PP/MC/Visa "want" to do this has zero to do with "porn saturation" or whatever. It's basically "brand management"; they're seeing servicing sites with specific types of adult content as "brand damage", so they pressure those sites to not do it. That's it; if they believed the opposite they'd gladly force itch io to show a dick in the front page.
In turn, the reason Collective Shout is pressuring PP/MC/Visa through "brand damage" mostly boils down to conservative babble. Check this, regarding the group's founder and take your own conclusions.
Hm... Looks to me like you're making excuses for a group of crazy anti-LGBTQ evangelicals who are using lies and slander to police the world based on your own flawed morality.
What the fuck are you even talking about? I cant tell if youre defending this shit, or having some weird view where you think youre against it. Either way, eww.
This person is also a racist. Not worth talking to.
That's not why they want to do the it. They want to do it because money and power.
They meaning everybody.