**Hey @everyone,**
As many of you know, lately adult games are under scrutiny/attack. Many **nsfw** (not safe for work) games are being delisted, taken down or canceled on both Steam and Itch, just like it was sometime back with Patreon and Subscribestar. These are ruining the lives of small companies and indie creators. For years now we are on the edge of our seats, waking up wondering if it’s today they will take down our games; What Visa and MasterCard monopoly will think of this time?
Behind the attack is a certain activist group that is doing everything they can to make other’s life harder, without actually doing anything to protect people or children in real life. As we know, it’s hard to aim at millionaires who actually are laughing at their face, confirming what they did is actually true, so they set their sights on the smallest of groups that they can bully - indie game developers.
**We are adults**, *we should decide what medium we want to consume as long as it doesn’t harm anybody.* Don’t decide it for us. We know what we can and can’t do. This is all fiction, meant to be as it is. Games, just like movies, books, theater plays, comics, paintings, drawings, clay models and even stand-up comedy aim to be a form of art. Some are there to comfort us, some are there to shock us, but all of them should be able to express themselves in any way.
Being silenced about certain questionable topics, especially if these are depicted as bad ones, is a censorship that aims to test the waters, how far they can go with it. Today is an indie game industry, tomorrow will be something else - until sex, sex work and adult entertainment is a taboo.
Even though Secret Care Cafe as an adult game doesn’t include any of the themes that they (activist group, visa, mastercard, itch, patreon, subscribestar, paypal) don’t agree with *‘at this very moment’*, tomorrow or some time later all adult games might be the target.
There is little we can do to fight the monopoly of payment processors and card providers. That is why,** if you have time, please sign the petition, share it and spread the word against this censorship and attack.**
[Petition: Stop Controlling What We Can Watch, Read, or Play]
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**Let’s all hope for a better outcome.
Alex**
from secret care cafè discord
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