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Aparently the person who recently started a censorship campaign against games that lead to delisting not only porn titles but also horror and other categories f

Aparently the person who recently started a censorship campaign against games that lead to delisting not only porn titles but also horror and other categories from itch.io is on the board to decide what its defined as adult content. > Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.[1] I have no idea what the hell is going on and it all seems very coordinated but I hope the pendulum swings back so hard next time it takes at least half a century for Tipper Gore to resurrect again. 1- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-vis...

flumpcakes 1y ago
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- crtasm 1y ago
  >they themselves admitted they could not police their store front and had no idea how many games would be problematic for the payment processors. I don't think that's true? My takeaway was the demands from the payment processors are frustratingly unspecific and they were up against a deadline, so delisted a huge amount of games being overcautious and are now going through them to see what can be relisted. Not all NSFW games were removed/delisted. They're now looking for new payment processors: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-are-seeking-out-new-payment-processors-who-are-more-comfortable-with-adult-material https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-are-seeking-out-new-...
yupyupyups 1y ago
Games (and cartoons) is a format children are drawn to. The new avarage age of exposure to porn is 11. The market has not been able to "self-regulate", rather the situation has gotten worse with more non-porn games adding, not just sexually charged, but now purely pornographic content. GOG (!) has proper porn games on their frontpage. So it's time something is done about it. I will try not to recommend any games to any child moving forward, and instead direct them to other hobbies. Because not only are games mostly a waste of time anyway, but they're also turning into an entrypoint to pornography.
- Tadpole9181 1y ago
  No, this is a genuinely unhinged take. Mario is an entryway to pornography? Are you fucking kidding me?
  - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
    Mario in particular no, because Nintendo is actually pretty good about keeping away from that stuff. Let's say... Palworld? Perhaps so, given that it can be purchased on stores that also feature pornographic titles.
    - Fire-Dragon-DoL 1y ago
      You can literally toggle a switch and never see any pornographic title
      - Tadpole9181 1y ago
        And set up family-managed accounts this way as well, to be clear. One of the things I've learned as an adult is that moral busybodies like this are, on average, horrible parents who would rather tell the powers-thay-be how the government should raise their kid (and everyone else's), than raise their kid themselves. Because, ultimately, this whole reaction and performance isn't about the kid. It's about the parent.
        cchance 1y ago
        Exactly, all these groups of parents with their sensitivities offended constantly, are the ones refusing to actually take charge and responsibility for what their children do. It's parents that don't want to put in the effort to actually monitor what their kid is doing they want to hand a kid an ipad and let the ipad only let them see things they feel are good, but not actually have to monitor what the kid is doing because government ipad content is babysitting/raising their kid for them.
      - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
Spastche 1y ago
this is so, so, so much worse than Tipper Gore

flumpcakes 1y ago

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crtasm 1y ago
>they themselves admitted they could not police their store front and had no idea how many games would be problematic for the payment processors. I don't think that's true? My takeaway was the demands from the payment processors are frustratingly unspecific and they were up against a deadline, so delisted a huge amount of games being overcautious and are now going through them to see what can be relisted. Not all NSFW games were removed/delisted. They're now looking for new payment processors: https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-are-seeking-out-new-payment-processors-who-are-more-comfortable-with-adult-material https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/itchio-are-seeking-out-new-...

yupyupyups 1y ago

Games (and cartoons) is a format children are drawn to. The new avarage age of exposure to porn is 11. The market has not been able to "self-regulate", rather the situation has gotten worse with more non-porn games adding, not just sexually charged, but now purely pornographic content. GOG (!) has proper porn games on their frontpage. So it's time something is done about it. I will try not to recommend any games to any child moving forward, and instead direct them to other hobbies. Because not only are games mostly a waste of time anyway, but they're also turning into an entrypoint to pornography.

Tadpole9181 1y ago
No, this is a genuinely unhinged take. Mario is an entryway to pornography? Are you fucking kidding me?
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago
  Mario in particular no, because Nintendo is actually pretty good about keeping away from that stuff. Let's say... Palworld? Perhaps so, given that it can be purchased on stores that also feature pornographic titles.
  - Fire-Dragon-DoL 1y ago
    You can literally toggle a switch and never see any pornographic title
    - Tadpole9181 1y ago
      And set up family-managed accounts this way as well, to be clear. One of the things I've learned as an adult is that moral busybodies like this are, on average, horrible parents who would rather tell the powers-thay-be how the government should raise their kid (and everyone else's), than raise their kid themselves. Because, ultimately, this whole reaction and performance isn't about the kid. It's about the parent.
      - cchance 1y ago
        Exactly, all these groups of parents with their sensitivities offended constantly, are the ones refusing to actually take charge and responsibility for what their children do. It's parents that don't want to put in the effort to actually monitor what their kid is doing they want to hand a kid an ipad and let the ipad only let them see things they feel are good, but not actually have to monitor what the kid is doing because government ipad content is babysitting/raising their kid for them.
    - lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y ago

Spastche 1y ago

this is so, so, so much worse than Tipper Gore