␇-707570 (awauwa) Jul 24

if you think what certain payment processors are doing with Steam and itch.io is wrong, might it suggest reporting those processors for abusing their market powers to the respective authorities in your country? Japan has already started an investigation, the more countries follow the better

Find the correct authority for every EU country: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust-and-cartels/european-competition-network/national-competition-authorities_en

For Germany: https://www.bundeskartellamt.de/DE/Aufgaben/Kartelle/Verteiler_Hinweise/Hinweise_Verst%C3%B6%C3%9Fe_node.html

For Austria: https://www.bwb.gv.at/beschwerdeeinbringung

For Switzerland*: https://www.weko.admin.ch/weko/de/home/anzeigen/kontakt.html

For the Netherlands*: https://www.acm.nl/en/tip-off

For France*: https://www.autoritedelaconcurrence.fr/fr/contact-guichet/signaler-une-pratique

* Please double check, as it has no experience with this countries legal system

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Show threadTayJul 24
@aurora (what are they doing? Being anti gay sex again?)
Show threadArina Artemis  Jul 24
@tay @aurora Apparently itch.io has delisted all NSFW content from search and discovery, allegedly because payment processors started pressuring them.
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Show threadallie 🌺Jul 24
@arina-artemis @aurora @tay ...because itch.io had nsfw games containing rape, incest, and minors, and a group of people lobbied for payment processors to pressure steam and itch
Show threadallie 🌺Jul 24
@arina-artemis @aurora @tay https://tech.lgbt/@username/114907848940013898
allie 🌺 (@username@tech.lgbt)

<p>can y'all read <a href="https://www.collectiveshout.org/open-letter-to-payment-processors">the campaign</a> that <a href="https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content">the itch.io blogpost</a> links to before posting about it?</p><p>petitioning payment processors to take action against both steam and itch because their review process has let games featuring rape, incest, and minors (the example that itch gave is entirely about two of the three). for once i agree with what the payment processors are doing? </p><p>i don't like how unclear the itch announcement is. at first i thought they were removing <em>all</em> nsfw games. but i don't think that's true.</p>

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Show threadArina Artemis  Jul 24
@username @aurora @tay So… Why not report the game to itch itself? Why go to friggin MasterCard and Visa? Why go nuclear?
Show threadallie 🌺Jul 24
@arina-artemis because the problem wasn't a specific game (well, that was also a problem), but itch.io not having good moderation: they should really be checking the content of nsfw games before listing them.
Show threadArina Artemis  
@username This is ridiculous. No other platform is required to pre-moderate content.
Jul 24 at 1:35pmWeb
Show threadArina Artemis  Jul 24
@username Anyway, I think you’re being deliberately obtuse, not arguing in good faith and supporting anti-abortionist prudes, so I’m going to block you. Ta-ta!
Show threadVoid of Tranquillity 🔞Jul 24

@arina-artemis Itch have honestly been exemplary in their handling of reports when it comes to legality, speaking as someone with some knowledge of the industry.

This @ username person seems to specifically dislike certain kinds of content, which is their prerogative, and wish to agitate that everyone else's access to art and entertainment be dependant on their moral standards, legality be damned.

The fuck are they even doing around here.
I am 100% out of patience with this shit.
Some of us are trying to earn a living off our bodies.