This needs restating so people can get their heads out of their asses.
Though - as being a furry myself -I cannot state that I know any furry sex games, the issue here is that young males playing these games start getting used to being called "master" by female anime characters with breasts that would need a mini crane to carry.
Just think of all of the potential babies that will be saved from socks and tissues
This is false btw. The First Amendment, specifically, prevents the government from punishing you for saying anything that doesn't put anyone in imminent danger or causes material harm based on a falsehood.
It is theoretically illegal in the US for companies with a certain market share to take anti-consumer actions. However that's down to the FTC actually filing suit for it.
Absolutely. Remember that they attempted to shut down sites which were selling stuff that is legal in the country the sites were located. They genuinely tried to apply legal pressure based on US law on foreign entities.
Nah, your definition of puritan and mine are very different, that's all. To me it means not allowing any sexiness or nudity, and since I don't oppose those things I can't be a pruitan. You and your ilk on the other hand, think a puritan is anybody who isn't into degenracies like pedo loli incest rape shit. That's not a puritan, that just a normal, decent human being.
In fairness, if physical releases were mandatory, 80% of the small indie devs who published on itch would've never been able to release a single game, let alone several.
Well....of course. I wasn't talking literally. I was speaking of the general concept of Citizens United. Couldn't Itch-io still use things like PayPal?
Because a three-people team in japan would most definitely find success trying to sell physical porn games world-wide.
Cant they use a made up currency? For example, Nutaku is a digital store that only sells and distribute adult games. While most games there are free 2 play, they also sell premium games and give you an option to use credit card or Nutaku Gold that is the site currency used to purchase stuff in the free 2 play games. Steam already has the Steam Wallet, so instead of buying a game directly with a visa or mastercard, could not steam just force you to use the steam wallet funds if steam is ok with the content but Visa/Mastercard isent?
Nutaku removed a number of games in autumn last year, so they weren't immune to payment processor influence. Wouldn't surprise me to find out they got a C&D as well.
I got the impression PayPal act the same because Visa/Mastercard tells them to, not because they ideologically agree.
Doubtful - for example you can use Visa and Mastercard to buy vape products whereas PayPal have completely banned them.
That's an incredibly stupid take.
A giant yes on that one. Paypal is worse than either in my experience. Paypal is very woke as well in my experience and that includes their application of their acceptable use policy. There is no way paypal is saving us from this.
yep, haven't there been reports of PayPal debanking people for years now? basically if they decide they don't like you they very well can lock your account down and even freeze what funds you might have had in your PayPal account at the time
The vast majority of that income is reliant on having Visa/Mastercard support though. Losing even one of them could cripple the business.
You aren't being entirely fair here. Collective Shout is an organization from Australia. If you go to their website, their primary stated goal is to "eliminate the objectification of women and their sexual exploitation." They complain about porn on Musk's site and Andrew Tate's "pimping on Spotify." Their entire team are women. Among other things. Not exactly modern conservative talking points.
The problem is that it would also kill banks (which would be neat as well) and banks have a pretty strong lobby around the world, and they whine like little bitches about crypto all the time.
Bank will be fine, they pay interest which crypto (especially stablecoine)
It's all about how much leeway your compliance department gives you.
You really aren't, as the rest of your post demonstrates. But have your tirade I guess.
this is the hilarious part, back then banning porn is a very conservative move, nowadays though some group from the left also started doing it, starting from female character design in games. So there's some people that's stuck in the middle like me that just started hating both sides lol.
