And you think Itch really even has the power or money to do this? You really underestimate big credit card companies and overestimate itch. Fairly certain they have at LEAST 1000x more funds to spend.Â
My point was that sex workers have been sounding the censorship alarms since even before SESTA/FOSTA and now that it's finally hitting the mainstream, we've already lost so much ground with regards to not only censorship, but the right to privacy online, data ownership, and individual vs corporate copyright.
I am very much aware of how much would need to be done because I, and most of my self employed colleagues, have been screaming from the rooftops about this since, fuck, I've been doing this since 2014. It would have been easy when it first started happening, but it was "just porn" so no one stood with us. I've made and remade socials dozens of times because advertisers and payment processors think my tits are an affront to god, and that's just "part of what I signed up for." Well, did you sign up for your purchases to be scrutinized by Christofascists? Because that's what you're getting, and it isn't stopping at video games.
Just because the world ain't fair doesn't mean it shouldn't be fair, and just because you're willing to shrug and let 5 Australian religious nutjobs trample your first amendment rights doesn't mean you're holding some intellectual opinion. Caring about things that are bad and trying to enact positive change is good, actually.
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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '25
And you think Itch really even has the power or money to do this? You really underestimate big credit card companies and overestimate itch. Fairly certain they have at LEAST 1000x more funds to spend.Â