> They could move to new payment processors This is **way** harder than you can imagine.. You can't just swap out a payment provider overnight, and even then moving to less popular providers on such a big website is risky.

I can’t wait for every piece of entertainment to be flavorless gruel!

Wasn't the activist group Australian?

The US has the [Fair Access to Banking Act](https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2743) trying to do similar things, but it's been stagnant for 2 years.

Moving away would seriously hurt bottom line as not everyone will bother setting up accounts. Moving to crypto would shut them down, the amount of people I know that pay with crypto for anything is almost zero despite having a tech-savvy friends group.

Sorry about them!

> Looks like this Collective Shout is only a 40,000 person organization. 40,000 people just broke content access for millions. Not even that. https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/australian-anti-porn-group-claims-responsibility-for-steams-new-censorship-rules-in-victory-against-porn-sick-brain-rotted-pedo-gamer-fetishists-and-things-only-get-weirder-from-there/ >Collective Shout later wrote that 1,067 individuals called and emailed payment processors as part of this campaign. It's absurd. I'm just going to link to the last thread from when this was on steam , and repost my comment. https://lemmy.world/post/33277694 >>Collective Shout later wrote that 1,067 individuals called and emailed payment processors as part of this campaign. >How the fuck can these goddamn censors achieve so much with just this much, while stop killing games has hundreds of thousands, if not millions of supporters and can barely get companies to do the minimum? >Just fucking anything worth doing needs overwhelming support, these dickheads can get it done with just over one thousand people. It's a fucking joke. >Yeah, this is incest and rape, incest and rape bad. wow, hot take. It's not about that, how fucking little effort do these dickheads need compared to how much fucking effort is needed to actually achieve something meaningful in this life. >These pricks are only doing it to try to limit speech instead of doing something to "protect the vulnerable". >>porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists >I'm sure they won't finish there, and won't rest until porn in general is outlawed.

My bad, thanks for the headsup. Missed that because of the negation. So yeah my original reply is a mess but that doesn't change that this is existential and the community opposing itch doesn't make any sense.

Read: bigoted crybullies got the credit card duopoly to fuck us, and nothing on the internet is safe until they're stopped.

I appreciate it. Not anything I can do about it. But it's good to know who to be possed at

> bigoted crybabies Actually highly organized American religious organizations doing this shit. They've been organizing for a long time and with trump now have a clear path to try and make the entire world suffer under their needs Fuck the American Taliban

Like who? You realize there's only a handful and they operate as a single entity, right?

What do you mean "actually?" Religious creeps are most of that category.

The community taking it out on itch is definitely misplaced blame and a lack of understanding how much power the payment processors have.

Reminds me of: the venn diagram of religious creeps and bigots is a circle.

Collective shout is Australian, in Taylor's Lakes Victoria

I hoard media for many reasons, including this one.

I have a ton of comics, books, and old games/consoles. My dream is to one day have a room dedicated to nothing but disconnecting and retro culture. A room that is not tainted by the current state of everything.

Yes, but the american payment processors are the ones in power and actually carrying out these punishments. They could've simply chosen to ignore that group and nothing would've happened.

True, given past history it's just a nice excuse