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Itch.io caves with unannounced snap delisting of NSFW games.
2 months ago
https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content
Itch.io finally has a statement and it's lukewarm like you'd expect.
I have written too many words tonight on this topic and simply will say this: Patreon is next, expect Furaffinity's revenue stream via FA+ to be on the eventual chopping block.
The US Congress is going to try to push a federal bill that will change the definitions of "Obscene Content", turning the internet which depends upon US information infrastructure and US Companies into a hellscape of mass purging of queer content.
I have said, since 2023, that this would be coming. I have maintained that the US holds a lot of leverage over the internet and for good reason, and shitty little children every time I have tried to post about this outside of my spaces have always barked back with "that's bad for business" and no, it fucking isn't. You don't get it.
VISA and MasterCard are mandated as the final arbitrators of almost all Electronic Commerce on this planet that matters for substantial revenue generation. This is because of the SWIFT International Banking System, of which those two sit at the top wielding their power for profit generation and lending it to US Social Conservatives to damage queer expression and sex positive discourse so-as to fit their Theocratic agenda.
We know this as Project 2025, but in 2017 it was called Project Blitz. Blitz largely failed overall, but look at today's environment. E621.net is going to have to move states pretty soon because of Arizona's ID Law; Patreon implemented ID Checking despite their vast sum of banking information being entirely sufficient to identify individuals doing business with them, and now the entire global adult industry is looking to Steam and Itch.io and going "welp" because both immediately caved and began pruning their content of "Obscene" materials.
This is it. This is what I said when I said we would be wiped off the fucking internet, this is the attack vector. I wrote about it in 2023, I've complained about it with each little step, it has not been abrupt insofar as the escalation, only the impact on each individual target.
Notice the pattern. Like a light switch, they just flip your platform off.
Save your files locally. Torrent to peers what is lost if you have it. We have to archive ourselves because no one else will do it.
Itch.io finally has a statement and it's lukewarm like you'd expect.
I have written too many words tonight on this topic and simply will say this: Patreon is next, expect Furaffinity's revenue stream via FA+ to be on the eventual chopping block.
The US Congress is going to try to push a federal bill that will change the definitions of "Obscene Content", turning the internet which depends upon US information infrastructure and US Companies into a hellscape of mass purging of queer content.
I have said, since 2023, that this would be coming. I have maintained that the US holds a lot of leverage over the internet and for good reason, and shitty little children every time I have tried to post about this outside of my spaces have always barked back with "that's bad for business" and no, it fucking isn't. You don't get it.
VISA and MasterCard are mandated as the final arbitrators of almost all Electronic Commerce on this planet that matters for substantial revenue generation. This is because of the SWIFT International Banking System, of which those two sit at the top wielding their power for profit generation and lending it to US Social Conservatives to damage queer expression and sex positive discourse so-as to fit their Theocratic agenda.
We know this as Project 2025, but in 2017 it was called Project Blitz. Blitz largely failed overall, but look at today's environment. E621.net is going to have to move states pretty soon because of Arizona's ID Law; Patreon implemented ID Checking despite their vast sum of banking information being entirely sufficient to identify individuals doing business with them, and now the entire global adult industry is looking to Steam and Itch.io and going "welp" because both immediately caved and began pruning their content of "Obscene" materials.
This is it. This is what I said when I said we would be wiped off the fucking internet, this is the attack vector. I wrote about it in 2023, I've complained about it with each little step, it has not been abrupt insofar as the escalation, only the impact on each individual target.
Notice the pattern. Like a light switch, they just flip your platform off.
Save your files locally. Torrent to peers what is lost if you have it. We have to archive ourselves because no one else will do it.
I was honestly hoping to have till the end of this year before needing to gear up. Spending 3 years in a sleep apnea haze + career burn out really makes you yearn for some serious rest.
The most cohesive thought I heard on the matter recently was by Joshua Moon. Where he speculates the policing is a result of the payment processors wanting to protect their gravy train by putting their army of lawyers to work vacuuming the law-book for any legal hook which they may snag on. Rather than being caught enabling commerce of illegal or sensitive material, digging into obscure legal references, they proactively cut it off from their networks to eliminate the risk.
To me that has a lot more explanatory power than assuming political intent. It also has the benefit of generating a broader call to action. Framing this as an issue where people distributing incest games on Steam or furry porn on Itchio are the most affected there is zero chance of proselytizing for change - as the optics are just impossibly bad and the in-group too small.
For the Americans there are vectors for change through the local democracy; harassing local representatives for one. De-banking and other exclusions from the financial sector has been an ongoing issue for a long time and have rallying power across the party lines. But to have any success, drop the sectarianism and the focus on the actual issue.
Okay just quickly to the side, go through here and read the articles. You need to understand something: it is never what these companies say.
We have over 60 years of Obscenity Law precedent in the US, and since it's inception the legal framework criminalized the Gay and Lesbian communities. This law and its codified case history was in response in part to the Stonewall Riot.
Every. Single. Time. Every single time one of these two companies slips up, the other is involved, and both are constantly fucking up. Pearl clutching is a reflex they exploit to conceal their actual fucking behavior. The theocratic impulse, it's entire construction, is meant to criminalize easy targets to enforce power.
You do not understand and I can never expect you to understand, this is "sectarian" because they chose to imprison us, beat us, and kill us for decades for merely existing.
GUESS WHAT. IT'S BACK.
Never fucking talk to me like this again.
Not that I'm advocating violence, of course, but it wasn't peaceful protest that made United (at least temporarily) reduce their rate of claim denial so sharply their shareholders sued them.
"You can't take it with you."