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Games: No sex, please. we're credit card companies

Dozens of games deleted with no advance notice, thousands more hidden by “deindexing.”…

Wednesday night, itch.io creators and users begannoticing that many adult-oriented games and content were no longer appearing in search results on the platform. Itch said the move—which it admitted was "sudden and disruptive"—came in response to a pressure campaign from Collective Shout, an Australian nonprofit that describes itself as "a grassroots movement challenging the objectification of women and sexualization of girls in media, advertising, and popular culture." The group claims to have "documented content including violent sexual torture of women and children, including incest related abuse involving family members" on both platforms, and took companies like Visa, MasterCard, and PayPal to task for "facilitating payment transactions and deriving financial benefit from these violent and unethical games" through those stores.

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