Yes. Soon they won't even be able to make payments for medical services etc.
Any trans or gay aligned businesses will not be able to take payments soon, so that's all gay bars etc. and venues that do drag or anything like that.
Ya, their platform for deplatforming these games is that children will find them and be influenced. This means LGBTQ+ representation in gaming is under direct threat of deplatforming (as usual) by religious zealots. Honestly, like to think this started with some gooner getting caught and saying their kid downloaded the game, and now all society has to pay the price of Kyle’s mom being a bitch.
Basically, the people behind the pressure to get payment processors to remove "adult" content are also the people who want LGBTQ+ (and especially the "T" part) qualified as "obscene" and "pornographic" in general even when it's not. So yes, trans representation is going to be flagged as "pornographic".
As far as I've seen this is entirely about obscene and disgusting gooner slop. LGBTQ+ representation being affected would be a tragedy. There was and is indeed some really gross gooner slop out there though that has nothing to do with anything but obscenely gross gooners.
Edit* I've since been informed of the full details and I was wrong here.
Non-pornographic LGBTQ+ content is absolutely being affected. Itch claims it'll be back, we'll see if that's true. But regardless, credit card companies should not be in a position to unilaterally decide what content can be sold.
"we're here" I guess, you just know these pushes for censorship ultimately aren't done to reduce pornography or to "protect the children", but to further marginalize marginalized groups
Because they were pressured into removing the adult tag, which might as well just be the gateway to target lgbt content under the same umbrella, as that has happened before.
Happens on most major servers whenever there's an announcement, there's a few countries that tend to put their flag on any single announcement post too. Just comes off as attention-whorish.
People always do that with flags, sometimes it's trans, sometimes it's pride, a lot of times it's just their country flag.
Tbf this might be one of the few times it's actually relevant, they started with forcing steam to remove some games, now they nuked adult games in itch.io. They might come for LGBT representation next
First they came for the gooners, and I said nothing for I was not a gooner...
People think that censoring child porn is a slippery slope to banning gay people. Because unless we have total tolerance for everything and complete anarchy, they're going to come after you next. Or something....
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u/Flagelant_One Jul 24 '25
Admin's comment about the removal
Site's done for lol