One of the great mysteries of the 21st century is how a tiny number of US companies control most of the world's payment processing, when it's not a technically difficult problem.

You could implement an entire end-to-end payment processing system in a year with a team of a few dozen competent engineers. The only difficulty is getting banks and retailers to sign up to it, but when the big players charge so much and create so much trouble this doesn't seem like it should be a tough sell. In most cases literally all you'd need to do is charge 2.4% instead of their 3%.

Could someone just make, like, Raunchy Mastercard and just process payments from everyone including all the porn and weird shit that the other mainstream companies don't want? It seems like the payment processors being puritanical dipshits is a weakness that could be exploited by an enterprising competitor.

But then again, we're talking about a natural monopoly that has been in place for decades at this point. I wouldn't expect them to exactly play fair.

Why are they doing a comprehensive audit on the content and not doing a comprehensive audit on new payment providers? I sure would be

My biggest issue with this situation is: if they can get away with getting games they don't like being delisted, where does it end? Delisting books with themes or authors they don't like? Banning the sale of alcohol and cigarettes?

It seemed like every search on Itchio was 70% NSFW results before this move

So can I call the payment providers of the companies I don't like and complain about them?

Miserable fuckers, the whole lot of puritans...

This morality police crap being carried out by the most immoral bastards on the planet needs to stop.

The comment section of my favorite adult Visual novel is already getting panicked.

Eternum is really really good I swear it's not just porn

Apparently there is some petition? Taking a look now.

Edit: Yup. Go sign it

Collective shout finacials
year: 2024
revenue: 458043
employee_expenses: 107000
other_expenses: 215488
net_surplus: 135555
employees: 
  total_fte: 2
  full_time: 0
  part_time: 1
  casual: 4
volunteers: 15
donations_and_bequests: 389800
government_grants: 0
commercial_income: 0
expense_to_revenue_ratio: "70.4%"
average_expense_per_employee: 39400

Leadership
- name: Melinda Tankard Reist
  role: Founder, Movement Director
  public_socials:
    - Twitter: @MelTankardReist
    - Instagram: @collective.shout
  public_email_address: Not publicly listed
  salary: Not publicly listed

- name: Caitlin Roper
  role: Campaigns Manager
  public_socials:
    - Instagram: @collective.shout
  public_email_address: Not publicly listed
  salary: Not publicly listed

- name: Renee Chopping
  role: Campaigns Strategy
  public_socials:
    - LinkedIn
  public_email_address: r******@collectiveshout.org
  salary: Not publicly listed

- name: Lyn Swanson Kennedy
  role: Campaigns Strategy
  public_socials:
    - Instagram: @collective.shout
  public_email_address: Not publicly listed
  salary: Not publicly listed

- name: Coralie Alison
  role: Movement Operations Manager
  public_socials:
    - Twitter: @CoralieAlison
    - Instagram: @collective.shout
  public_email_address: Not publicly listed
  salary: Not publicly listed

Fuck religion.

I get not liking a game about SA and incest, but how about just not play that game?

We should go back to sending the cash per physical mail…

gamers, unironically, rise up. this isn't going to end on niche porn games

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist?wprov=sfla1

Collective Shout. Thanks to itch.io for naming them. TIL