The list of banned Adult content that Patreon, as well as some other patron based donation hosts, is steadily growing... Mostly because they made the mistake of not thinking about what they really wanted to restrict up front, before the heavy influx of adult content creators began taking a seat at their table... It's mostly to ban the inclusion of the more extreme sexual fetishes, such as Bestiality, All Forms of Rape, Non-Consensual Activities such as Mind Control, and the list goes on... It is an ever evolving list...
What drives me crazy about this is that these are fictional characters, it's not like they have any agency to begin with. Technically, every character in fiction is "mind controlled" by the author.
I didn't said that they are right, just explained the way they see the problem. After, I said it in another thread, it's all matter of depiction versus apologia.It's like they're trying to protect the rights of fictional beings. Nuts, I tells ya'! Nuts!
It's just that writing aren't interactive. You can have feeling when reading, you can identify yourself as the main character, but you have no way to influence the story, no possibility to change it and so no direct responsibilities behind what happen. You are just a spectator of the action.
Patreon has a financial monopoly on community funding. Peter Thiel (libertarian billionaire) owns Patreon. As such, you get this weird sense of morality that bars adult games.
Source ? He isn't one of the creators, and neither Clarium Capital Management LLC, the hedge fund he's actually CEO, nor The Founders Fund, a venture capital fund he's one of the main manager, nor obviously PayPal or himself, are on
Because he has the money for Paypal and everything on the internet runs on Paypal. Basically, if you want to run anything as a venture capitalist, you can shut down anything that you don't like indirectly. That's getting more into the stocks and such, but that's the gist of it.
It's...
Now there were a lot of people talking about how Patreon wanted to sell to Paypal but if you don't want to understand how soft monopoly goes well... *shrug*
No need, it was part of my studies.
Far to be true. They are the first which come with regular small payments, and their now competitors are far to reach their popularity and trust, but they weren't, still aren't, and will never be, the only way to finance your game. itch.io being one among others (and apparently can lead to decent amount). Japaneses have their own platforms, and there's even some creators who achieve to have a more than decent amount with just a tip jar.
And still platforms exist which achieve to do it. I think about itch.io, already named, but also about Sponsorion, to take only one name among the few platforms which have been created in response to Patreon's ban. There's also all the, not always good looking, platforms which existed before the said Patreon's ban. And obviously all the ones who aren't directly in competition with Patreon, but are decent alternatives if you don't seek for a regular monthly income.
If it can help you sleep tight...
If it can help you sleep tight...
Itch.io is a very small competitor compared to Paypal and its global reach and the Japanese market doesn't reach out to any other part of the Pacific region for a nuber of reasons. It's laughable to bring those two up when they have barely the reach of the #1 in the international context we're talking about.
That's the next breed. So you should know the name of Joseph Schumpeter and his "creative destruction" method. Doesn't apply to the monopoly now nor anything else I said.
Given that what a lot of devs were talking about around here was Patreon trying to sell to Paypal and making themselves look good for corporate monopoly by "cleaning up" the NSFW accounts, I'm sure your vast knowledge of economics can do the math of why Peter Thiel's name was dropped. But when all you have is snide remarks for talking about the higher parts of economics, I guess it's easier to keep that train going instead of understand the by laws of business that affect those people on the site.
Technically it should be the opposite. If it's our will to see incest/rape/bestiality, then a true libertarian should do what he can to let us do so.
While itch itself allow for adult content they also refer to the payment processors guidelines. If you are in breach of say PayPal's guidelines then you can get in trouble, maybe not with itch, but with the people holding your money. The only reason you can keep going is due to obscurity, much how things are with Patreon right now.
Honestly I didn't searched deeply here, just addressing the fact that Patreon isn't the only one on the market. It just happened that itch was the name that crossed my mind at this time.
According to the
No need to be sorry.
It wasn't on that page in particular. There was another page somewhere on PayPal that had the listings. I just haven't been able to find it since I first saw it.
That male horse/dog is getting an erection, I'm pretty that means they're Down To Fuck, a.k.a consenting to put their penis in someone's vagina/asshole, whether they be human or otherwise.
Billionaires such as he took a very special interest in
From the looks of this, the censorship started because of someone funding for something else entirely and the adult industry came into the crosshairs within that same article. You might want to look into it and come to your own conclusions. A has no relevance here, B ignores that these companies are willing to take away funding based on their own questionable morality, and C ignores that the response is to something that was a shitstorm itself.
