All NSFW games on Itch are now hidden by default.

[torresm]

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She's also the last expert here:

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They supported it on twitter in the past. They have their shit private now so we can't see it anymore if you google collective shout (name of the groupd) cuties you will find info on that.

Oh wow... thanks for the sources.
It's even the same hypocritical bitch who went on twitter to say this

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Guess having IRL kids in sexualized content is A-OK as long as it includes a message of "we're only showing you all this to prove sexualizing kids is bad, mmkay?", but virtual ones are a no-no, you sicko.

 

[PSage]

I won't be surprised if someday Star Trek is banned for being to thought provoking. Even Star Wars will be banned for the same reasons.
So this is how democracy dies to thunderous applause.(Padme Amidala)

 

[alonehentain]

How many game got banned on itch right now

 

[PSage]

How many game got banned on itch right now

I'm not sure about exact numbers but it looks to be several thousand could be banned by these new definitions.

 

[liade]

How many game got banned on itch right now

my rought estimation is more than 3k , my game is in some collection big has 3k and they are all nsfw game in it, so it's probably a small piece of the cake ...

 

[alonehentain]

my rought estimation is more than 3k , my game is in some collection big has 3k and they are all nsfw game in it, so it's probably a small piece of the cake ...

Hmmm , I think once it all over , the nsfw tag gonna appear again

 

[alonehentain]

I'm not sure about exact numbers but it looks to be several thousand could be banned by these new definitions.

Well , hope itch know what they are doing, if they ban too much , it gonna be lost around 50% their customers trust gone

 

[Grev7]

itch.io has every reason to panic. In the worst cast, Steam can just stop selling NSFW games at still do just fine. itch.io would simply die.

Actually I think itch.io is in deep water now no matter what they do. It's the platform for LGBT VN. If they lose that I don't know it can even survive.

Shouldn’t you, especially then not alienate your customers, if you need them to survive

 

[DarkEnchanter]

I'm not sure about exact numbers but it looks to be several thousand could be banned by these new definitions.

Games with the incest-tag have not only be made unfindable, they have been removed completly, for example the game "Therapy":

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Games which does not have the incest-tag can still be accessed but are pretty hard to find now because most are not shown unless you have the exact link, for example the game Fashion Business:

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[Iexist]

I mean fiction is fiction is already the law pretty much.. Such laws make 0 difference in this case. The stuff being removed is not being removed because it's somehow illegal. Perfectly legal stuff is being removed simply because the harassers don't like that particular genre/tag and find it "offensive" or "exploitive" (and the genres will keep expanding over time because they really don't like ALL porn, but know they have to go step by step), and they are able to convince the payment processors that it's too much of a hassle to deal with these lunatics so they'll just force steam/itch/etc to ban it.

What's actually needed is a law that say payment processors can not be at all be involved with the censoring/moderation of the content that people and business are buying or selling. A law that says banking and payment processing is a fundamental right necessary to live in modern society and you can't be denied it based on content unless you are committing an actual crime with said purchase/sale and they are willing to file a police report or whatever else to prove it. Unfortunately such laws are very unlikely to get passed at this time as we are losing more and more freedoms and rights through laws these days in many countries, not gaining them.

It's not really though, that's the problem. The fact of the matter is that it's not law at the moment. The US has that whole thing with the Miller test and whatnot, where basically obscenity is not really treated as fiction no matter what form it takes, because the law does not, at the moment, distinguish between purely fictional obscene content and pornography involving real people. Even outside of porn, there's examples like Germany where the law absolutely loses its shit if you put a Swastika in a game or comic or anything. It doesn't matter if it's there to mock the Nazis or to make dumb games where someone travels from the future to murder Hitler or something... they do not accept it at all.

If you keep digging, you will find all sorts of examples, all over the world, where fiction is not in fact treated as fiction.

That's one of the reasons why this is happening right now. For VISA and MasterCard, there is no difference between fictional pornographic content and actual porn. There is no law that truly differentiates between these things on all levels. Regardless of how much they do or don't care, the fact of the matter is that they can use the current legal status to do whatever they want, and they can even present themselves as the good guys if they really try.

"We don't want to go after you gooner games, but right now, if we get sued about this stuff, it'd be treated the same as real **, and we'd be fucked. So something gonna give, and it's you guys. Sorry." - They can absolutely play this sort of card if they really need too. It'd be fake as all fuck for sure, but right now, legally speaking, they hold all the cards.

That's why I'm saying that the US and the EU seriously need to put into law the idea that fiction is fiction, that it's not reality, that it should not be treated as reality and that enjoying fictional content that is "morally objectionable" or whatever is not a crime or something that needs to be regulated beyond putting appropriate age restrictions. It should be put into law that essentially anything goes in fiction, as long as it's clearly fiction and no one is getting hurt. (Unlike pornography involving actual people, where actual people can and at times do get hurt for any number of reasons.) Adults should be able to spend their money on whatever fictional content they want, even said content involves murder-fucking people or vampire Nazis eating British babies (ah, Hellsing, the things you let me write even today...)...

As things currently stand, we can't actually point at groups like Karens United or whatever and say "Shut up bitches, it's just pixels, the law says you can do whatever you want with those. They don't have or need rights, much less activist groups."

 

[Adoringfan]

Oh wow... thanks for the sources.
It's even the same hypocritical bitch who went on twitter to say this

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Guess having IRL kids in sexualized content is A-OK as long as it includes a message of "we're only showing you all this to prove sexualizing kids is bad, mmkay?", but virtual ones are a no-no, you sicko.

The more you dig into her past the more vile she appears. Look into the books she wrote too.

 

[alonehentain]

Shouldn’t you, especially then not alienate your customers, if you need them to survive

Yeah , I think maybe they’re trying to banned incest theme first

 

[alonehentain]

Games with the incest-tag have not only be made unfindable, they have been removed completly, for example the game "Therapy":

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Games which does not have the incest-tag can still be accessed but are pretty hard to find now because most are not shown unless you have the exact link, for example the game Fashion Business:

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Well they’ll be back once this cool down

 

[Anteron]

Someone should start a new site that allows such things - and blocks all access from Australia.

 

[boringapocalypse]

They don't seem to care to remove the women's otome stuff of dubious consent (or just outright rape lol). Ditto for the bodice ripper smut novels that my OWN PUBLIC LIBRARY has become full of in lieu of actual historical or technical texts... The main rule for this seems to be whether mostly men enjoy it or not.

 

[alonehentain]

I wonder how many game can fly under the radar

 

[taiki_wata]

Shouldn’t you, especially then not alienate your customers, if you need them to survive

At this point I think itch.io is doomed in all cases. (unless somehow this becomes a big social initiative pushing against censorship... like by 0.1% chance).

NSFW-adjacent is much more important to itch.io than to Steam. They have seriously damaged their reputation among their customers.

But if they didn't do that, getting cut from Visa/Mastercard would still be a death sentence.

itch.io staff are probably updating resume right now.

 

[DevGox]

I'm really confused and mad about this sudden move from Itch.io
I’ve been working hard on a new NTR game, and now it feels like all that effort was for nothing.
This came out of nowhere and feels like a punch in the face for indie creators who never even got the chance to release their projects.
I hope platforms stop treating adult content like it’s trash when so many people put real creativity and time into it.

 

[Anteron]

The main problem is that the Australian government is completely insane and thinks pixels are people. Are they going to start charging people who play games like GTA with murder?

 

[Estreiher]

Today its nsfw content, tomorrow it's the ones that's not in line with the current government or influential corporation. I urge all EU to write letters to your country's members of European Parliament explaining the situation and stressing out that Visa & Mastercard is using their monopolists position. Here is members list (you have to click on the name to find email address there):

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