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Itch.io seeks payment processors who work with with adult material
After delisting thousands of games with adult or NSFW sexual material, indie store Itch are looking to move away from Paypal and Stripe.
As for complaints that Itch are already withholding payments from developers who infringe their new, albeit rather makeshift rules and regs, the platform holders comment that this reflects an older practice of blocking transactions in the case of an account breaking their content policies, "to address bad-actor situations where a user joins the site and blatantly violates our terms to make sales before being banned". It's apparently the result of an open letter to the payment companies from Australian activist group Collective Shout, who campaign against the sexualisation of women and depictions of sexual violence. Whatever you may think of Collective Shout, or of Valve and Itch.io's previous moderation of NSFW games, the overarching point is that vast finance firms shouldn't get to police the definition of acceptable sexual material.
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