Itch.io is shadowbanning or deleting NSFW and LGBTQ content
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Not a Decepticon
Hero
The people who want to censor what other people buy want to do exactly thatand barns and noble...then walmart...then second hand book sellers
Also, there are people composing lists of games delisted by itch.io, this one has catalogued over 100 positions by now.
Not a Decepticon
Hero
One where a corproation decides what people do with their money and what they're even allowed to buy. Not much of a "free" world.
Muh
Hero
I am talking about bad, as in, bad for society and people. It could be good for the corporations doing the censorship, I don't really care.
Jadeite
Hero
The denial of critical infrastructure by unelected entities like corporations is antithetical to the "Free World" (TM) (as well as the Free Market).
Mod Note:
This thread veering pretty heavily into not just politics, but politics less germane to the main conversation.
There’s also an uptick in making things personal- again, problematic.
Let’s get things back on track, please.
If not, we’ll have to escalate moderation of this thread.
This thread veering pretty heavily into not just politics, but politics less germane to the main conversation.
There’s also an uptick in making things personal- again, problematic.
Let’s get things back on track, please.
If not, we’ll have to escalate moderation of this thread.
Mod Note:
And this is over the line. You know better.
Jd Smith1
Hero
No, it is where a business decides how it conducts its affairs. Steam and Itch are not the only sources of porn.
Jd Smith1
Hero
True.
Porn, however, is not critical infrastructure. Nor is this action going to affect the supply of porn.
Not a Decepticon
Hero
1. For many venues, like books or ttrpgs or video games, and many publishers - yes they are. Sorry to break it to you, but adults have right to produce nsfw content and be paid for it by other adults, who made concious decision to want to pay for such kind of material. For many creators those were the only avialable avenues to make living of their art. The only "other sources" that cannot be bullied by credit card companies are places that steal such content and make it accessible online without permission or compensation for the creator. I want to strech this is a valid reason to oppose these bans in its own even if next points didn't contribute.
2. Have you ever adressed the fact that these bans are skewed towards disproportionatelly targetting LGBTQ+ content, not only nsfw one? Have you ever adressed how this is "foot in the door" tactic that is well known by bigots, and whose next after getting "porn" banned step is to declare everything featuring queer people as inherently pornographic? On the spreadsheet I posted above the very first position is a dress up game about being trans. If you scroll even a bit you will see titles that don't seem to be pornographic at all but merely feature erotic content, like Lovely Lady RPG or the Cradle of Eternal Night. And these positions are tame compared to what you can find in mainstream books like the Witcher or A Song of Ice and Fire. There is even this bundle of shadowbanned books, pointing out that not all of them are nsfw AND many of them are queer and itch.io's system seems to disproportionatelly target the latter.
3. It's not a free world if a bussiness makes itself an arbiter of what people can or cannot buy on a store it doesn't even own. Trying to just yell "It's free market, lol, bussiness can do whatever it wants" is, quite frankly, a thought terminating cliche and appears as an attempt to shoto down the discussion, not a geniue argument contributing to it. Especially with how you are repeating it without adressing points like the above.
