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Censorship by Payment Processors

Hell's Razer said:
I believe the answer to this is "six of one, half a dozen of the other".
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Nah, the payment processors are just flat-out lying. Steam has been consistently opposed to censorship, as has Itch.io, and if the latter in particular actually wanted to restrict some NSFW content, it wouldn't have taken the drastic (and likely highly damaging to their brand) step of delisting all NSFW content.
 
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There is rumor that says that Mastercard and Visa wants to ban Grand Theft Auto, and other violent games.
 
Hell's Razer said:
Oh you mean the thing they did? The one they sort of walked back on after a lot of noise was made? That thing?
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You think they've walked it back? That's cute. The extra terms of service submitting to the whims of Visa and Mastercard are still there. The assorted adult games banned for spurious reasons are still gone. Some tags are still mysteriously semi-hidden.

If Itch.io actually wanted to do any of this then they would not have burned a ton of goodwill by blindsiding people over it. They ain't getting that trust back.
 
seeing_octarine said:
You think they've walked it back? That's cute. The extra terms of service submitting to the whims of Visa and Mastercard are still there. The assorted adult games banned for spurious reasons are still gone. Some tags are still mysteriously semi-hidden.

If Itch.io actually wanted to do any of this then they would not have burned a ton of goodwill by blindsiding people over it. They ain't getting that trust back.
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Hence the "sort of".
 
Hell's Razer said:
Oh you mean the thing they did? The one they sort of walked back on after a lot of noise was made? That thing?
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They were pretty clear from the beginning that it was only ever meant to be a temporary thing. And if they didn't want to host NSFW content, they would have just not hosted it in the first place. The idea that all of these different sites simultaneously decided they wanted to ban NSFW content now after years of hosting it is pretty clearly ridiculous.

I won't say they're completely blameless, they could have fought back like GoG has rather than meekly submitting, but it's pretty clear they weren't the ones instigating it, and nor did they want to remove those games.
 
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