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   Aether ??? (aether@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 31-Jul-2025 02:30:22 JST Aether ???
   What's up with Steam and Itch.io suddenly vanishing all those games and books and art and stuff?
   
   https://archive.is/2LZ5T#selection-1701.0-1710.0
   
   Proximate cause: Visa and Mastercard deciding they have to act as global fun censors.
   
   Distal cause: Some random group of Australians called Collective Shout who have for years believed they have to act as global fun censors.
   
   >As a result of Collective Shout's actions, in tandem with the payment processors, over 20,000 games, books, comics, and other creative works - confirmed via the Internet Archive - functionally ceased to exist on the site (though purchased content remains in users' libraries so long as it doesn't violate itch.io's new guidelines), imperiling the creators who depend on sales from itch.io. In addition to NSFW content, notable projects that didn't have the tag were caught up in the purge as well.
   
   So we doing Shimoneta now?
   
   >Whenever a platform announces a blanket ban on adult content, LGBTQ+ creators are almost always disproportionately affected, harming queer artists and invariably queer people.
   
   This is true, because "queer" artists and "queer" people are sex-obsessed lunatics with various paraphilias.