The problem with leaving it in the hands of corporations... Is that some are run by pieces of shit with very warped ideas
What they allow might be worse than what they ban
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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Meanwhile known pedo and rapist Donald Trump is President of USA. Make it make sense.
Make America Make Sense Again
a reminder that collective karens bragged about doing all of this based on just 1000 phone calls.
I'm gonna do 2000 calls demanding more boobies in video games
Nobody wants to pick up the phone
Ahh, yes
A collective against the objectification of women, which somehow has no Problem with the current system in america, pornography itself, and dosent advocate for anything except banning Video games.
A collective that defends Cuties...
What's wrong with liking cuties?
Sometimes you don't feel like eating a large orange.
I would imagine they're more concerned with Australia than America, since that's where they live.
Oh I'm sure they have lots of problems with the system in America. They're going after anything they think they've even got a chance of affecting. Their website also says they're trying to ban porn on X.
Payment processors shouldn't have this kind of power, it's insane.
It's not the first time this has happened. That first time set the precedent that the payment processors have a vast amount of power over the transactions that can occur on the internet. There wasn't a realistic way to push back on it and so they will continue to expand this for... whatever reason they are actually giving. IDK - I would have thought that legitimate adult content payments would be quite lucrative for these processors to handle, it's not like they're beholden to advertising like YouTube is and their insane content policies.
I mean, I cannot find a valid reasoning for it apart from the vague term "high risk" which explains nothing. This is the best I've found so far:
The adult industry is no stranger to regulation and stigma. But in recent years, payment processor censorship has emerged as a subtler, more insidious threat. Companies like Mastercard, Visa, and their underlying bank networks often issue sweeping mandates, particularly regarding “high-risk” content. These decisions typically happen behind closed doors, without public accountability or stakeholder input from the communities affected.
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To reduce perceived brand risk or avoid legal ambiguity, even when the content is legal.
TBH they are making themselves look pretty shitty as a brand by moving sex work and other adult content back to the darker deeper recesses where it becomes less accessible and harder to regulate properly in terms of safety and legality.
Just pointing out the obvious here, but the problem isn't organizations like Collective Shout. And there has been a rather worrying development of this issue where people seem to focus on these organizations rather than the actual problem.
Payment processing is a utility. Credit card companies should not be allowed to pick and choose who they allow and who they block. That's the job of the government. Anything illegal can be blocked, but blocking anything legal such as the delisted games, or the Japanese manga sites that visa and MasterCard killed, should count as discriminatory practice and antitrust violation.
Japan is on track to force credit card companies to allow all legal transactions indiscriminately, and we need the same thing to happen in the EU and US. Once we have this fixed, organizations will be forced to instead try to outlaw the games, which is a million times harder.
If we bully organizations like collective shout out of existence, new ones will pop up to take its place, and the cycle repeats, but if we regulate credit card companies, we essentially cure the disease.
Actually insane to say that Collective Shout is blameless. Go look at the vile shit their members are spewing. Not only are they demonstrably culpable for this, they're also engaging in hate speech and disinformation and targeted harassment.
The payment situation is also to blame.
No one is saying they are blameless. We are saying they are not the issue that we need to focus on fixing here.
Actually insane to say that Collective Shout is blameless
Nobody said that. Except you, I guess.
They didn't say blameless, but they did heavily imply Collective Shout isn't a problem and that people are worried about the wrong thing. I think Noxy's interpretation and response that there's multiple things to blame was pretty reasonable.
to say that Collective Shout is blameless
Twitter is not, as it turns out, the only place where well articulated sentences get misinterpreted.
I love the mental gymnastics of saying that you’re a feminist and also anti-abortion. The only way a woman gets pregnant is from sperm. And in 99% of cases, that was through the interaction with a man. And it may have not been consensual.
But either way, now said woman is bound to modify her body and life because of her interaction with a man, rather than being able to make her own choice, because you said so and you know what’s best for her. She’s “empowered” to be a good little breeder and produce either men or other breeders because apparently that’s what women are good for when you take away their autonomy, which is really what these groups want. Which, is also a big reason why they hate trans women. Trans women cannot do the only job a woman should have, which is to produce offspring.
They would build such an amazing society! With so many empowered women! Freed from the shackles of being able to think or decide for themselves, ready to fulfill their ultimate dream of producing offspring, taking care of offspring, and then dying.
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Fuck that. They can collectively shout into this asshole. All we gotta do is start a counter movement. Which I guarantee will be easier to grow than Collective Prudes.
I say that we must take a revenge... I am very angry for the freedom of expression and respect to individual rights. It is simply a nazi organization disguised in Christian clothes.
Each sect of the insane Yahweh-cult has a way bigger body count than the Nazis ever accomplished.
You're making it sound like this isn't straight up Christianity.
For this one Christianity is to blame, not Nazis.
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The LGBTQ suppression slippery slope is here...and it didn't even take these fucking fascists an extra week
Yeah, Mass Effect, Witcher, and Cyberpunk 2077 are just a few games among many that these groups would love to target and take down for giving lgbtq options. Could forsee a future where games have to start self censoring themselves to try to avoid demonetization. Best case scenario is they only censor in certain countries.
So those who think it is just attacking porn games and don't care because they play normal games will be in for a rude awakening if these groups get their way.
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Great great so what's the bloody point in itch now then?
I mean, getting rid of anything that even acknowledges the existence of queer folk is absolutely on brand for Christofascists.
Reports on Twitter that they are deleting previously purchased games from users’ libraries as well.
That sounds like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
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