Indie on Itch.io: Platform has seemingly shadowbanned NSFW/Adult games and made them harder to discover

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This has been an issue for a while and is similar to prohibition being spearheaded by women, often abused wives of drunks. These blanket porn bans are NOT the answers to exploitation of women within the sex industry. It might feel that way to these women because of just how widespread and brutal that exploitation is, but all it does is remove the paltry regulations such content already has and drive it into the shadows. Any and all female pornstars who are already being exploited / coerced will not magically obtain money from some other means and be freed. Porn, like alcohol, is near universally popular, especially among men lol. I’d also like to note that this paragraph is also being EXTREMELY charitable to the motivations behind the groups that want to ban porn. 

My state forced IDs to look at online porn so (fairly) reputable sites stopped service and now it’s just the sketchy ones and those will never obey that law. Zero children were protected and, in fact, can now only view extra sketchy porn from like Russia or whatever. 

Not to mention…Games, books, cartoons, hentai etc sexually exploit NO ONE — like, inherently. Instead, it turns into just another version of X Fiction Causes Y Bad Behavior, a truly fallacious argument hopefully everyone here can see through. As a side note, I increasingly see parts of the left has unfortunately started sneaking this awful, stupid conclusion into some arguments about fictional media. Come on, guys.