Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content

Whoah....don't make this personal. I'm not taking a stand here, just asking about what's going on.
Rereading how I phrased that, it definitely came across as more combative than intended. You asked how one could have LGBT+ content without it being sexual, so I was trying to show how it's not that difficult, and the implicit double standard that's frequently used in that line of thought. That's also a frequent talking point used by certain folks to brand any LGBT+ content as "sexual" and therefore "not for children", so it got my hackles up.

Given your second paragraph, I wasn't intentionally adding you to that category, but I can see how that would come across. Apologies.
 

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Rereading how I phrased that, it definitely came across as more combative than intended. You asked how one could have LGBT+ content without it being sexual, so I was trying to show how it's not that difficult, and the implicit double standard that's frequently used in that line of thought. That's also a frequent talking point used by certain folks to brand any LGBT+ content as "sexual" and therefore "not for children", so it got my hackles up.

Given your second paragraph, I wasn't intentionally adding you to that category, but I can see how that would come across. Apologies.

Fair enough. Sorry if I over-reacted.

An interesting experiment would be to attach the LGBTQ+ tag to various content that had absolutely no LGBTQ+ (or hetero) content, and see if it ends up getting filtered out. That would prove that it's not actually about NSFW.
 

The answer to my own question appears to be (as is the case here) that the presiding authorities take the position of prohibiting action rather than compulsory action.
By and large, though note these laws are then implemented by the various countries of the EU and may not be done so in a word-for-word kind of way, rather they have to be compliant with them, and the exact ways they do that may vary - quite naturally given EU countries all have different legal systems, different ways of making laws, different languages, and so on. So it's entirely possible some countries have taken different approaches, some of which may be or appear to be compulsion-based. Also specific situations in specific countries may require compulsion to actually get traction in achieving the aims of this legislation, particularly when dealing with existing long-term discriminatory situations, though that's probably a slightly different issue.

You can read a bit more about it here.

Also the EU does check, and you do have to send in your homework!


If you expand "More on national transpositions", it's quite helpful.
 




Why?

What is the point of that right?
At least here in the United States, the right to freely associate with whom you wish is enshrined in the very first Amendment of our Bill of Rights. When it comes to commerce, a business can't refuse to serve a customer on the basis of membership in a protected class such as race, skin color, national origin, religion, veteran status, age, gender, etc., etc.

Imagine if you will the following scenario at a gaming convention: I sit down to play a game and the dude across the table from is wearing a jacket festooned with fascist semiotics. We both paid our entry fees, so commerce is most definitely involved, but I call a judge over because I'll be damned if I'm going to play a game with a fascist. Is the venue within their rights to tell this guy to take a hike?
 

At least here in the United States, the right to freely associate with whom you wish is enshrined in the very first Amendment of our Bill of Rights. When it comes to commerce, a business can't refuse to serve a customer on the basis of membership in a protected class such as race, skin color, national origin, religion, veteran status, age, gender, etc., etc.

Imagine if you will the following scenario at a gaming convention: I sit down to play a game and the dude across the table from is wearing a jacket festooned with fascist semiotics. We both paid our entry fees, so commerce is most definitely involved, but I call a judge over because I'll be damned if I'm going to play a game with a fascist. Is the venue within their rights to tell this guy to take a hike?
But can you prove VISA & MC are SPECIFICALLY TARGETING the Queer content creators? I'm no lawyer but doing so would be extremely difficult - and equally expensive in court.
 

In the USA, its a basic freedom, long upheld by the USSC.

Companies and businesses in the USA enjoy the same inalienable rights as do individuals, for the most part.
But it's one freedom against another one in this case. Sure they might have the law on their side, but also Dredd Scott.

Suppose cash no longer exists and all payments are digital, how do you purchase something if the payment processors don't want you to be able to purchase it?

This whole thing reeks of ancap idealism.
 


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