Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Infiltrated? Who said anything about infiltrated? Are you just making shit up now?

  What happened is incredibly simple.

  1. Some regressive organisations with no power other than persuasive power told payment processors to stop supporting NSFW content.
  2. Payment processors caved in to this pressure and told Steam and Itch that their current NSFW content is not allowed and to remove it.
  3. Steam and Itch, wanting to be able to keep making revenue at all, responded to this demand by removing NSFW content.

  Anyone can do 1. I could go to Visa and say “stop promoting cats, tell Steam to stop selling Stray and Little Kitty, Big City.” It’s up to Visa whether or not they consider my pressure worth responding to. If they do, Steam has to stop selling Stray and LKBC if they want to stay in business. The blame here lies with Visa for choosing to listen to me even though, in this scenario, I’m being a total fuckwit. In reality, Visa would turn around to me and say “lol no, fuck off”. (Or, more likely, ignore me entirely.)

  3 is an inevitable result if 2 occurs. If they can’t take in any money, they can’t continue selling any games. They can’t afford to pay the bills for their servers, or pay their employees, or anything. The only option is to give in.

  That leaves 2 as the variable. They decide whether to respond to the pressure or not. And they deserve the blame any time they do.

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  • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Again, why were they ok with NSFW games on steam.before ? Why now ?

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    • Dremor@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Pretty simple.

      They already wanted to do it, but didn’t want to take the blame for it. With a vocal minority now voicing concerns, they jumped on the occasion.

      So why now rather than when that group started voicing their oppoaition ? Well, if they did earlier they had to deal with a liberal federal government that probably would have intervened in the name of free market, but now with a conservative fed government, they have free reign to impose regressive view on about anyone.

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      • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s a convenient excuse. Then what were they doing all these years, sleeping ?

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Jesus christ are you just trolling at this point?

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      • MITM0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No you

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