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Just so everyone knows, the current censorship of nsfw games on Steam and itch.io is a direct result of that ‘No Mercy’ game that a lot of people were enthusiastic about helping to ban a few months ago for essentially being a rape simulator.

I don’t care if you’re pro or anti censorship but be consistent about it. You can’t support games like ‘No Mercy’ being banned, or the writer of ‘Daddy’s Little Toy’ getting arrested, while also getting up in arms about payment processors banning games you actually like. They are literally directly connected issues.

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Collective Shout, Itch.io content bans, and radical feminism

Just in case anyone wants to argue that the recent wave of anti-nsfw (and specifically “anti-porn”) campaigning isn’t based in transphobia and specifically transmisogyny, here are some fun facts about Melinda Tankard Reist, the Director of Collective Shout (the organization behind most of these campaigns): 

She was also a founding director of Women’s Forum Australia, a conservative think tank that actively campaigned against abortion legislation, spread conspiracy theories about the health dangers of wi-fi, and succsefully got trans-positive sex ed books taken out of stores after abusing and harrassing employees. 

She worked as a political advisor to Brian Harradine, a far-right Australian Senator with ties to conservative Christian groups who opposed same-sex marriage, abortion, and pornography. 

She publishes her books through Spinifex press, a self-described “radical feminist” publishing house that has worked with other transphobic authors in the past. 

And some about Collective Shout’s Campaigns Manager, Caitlin Roper: 

Wrote Prositution Narratives, a collection of stories meant to act as evidence for the abolition of sex work (edited by none other than Melinda Tankard Reist, published by Spinifex Press). 

Compares queer theorists to “paedophile rights activists”.

Is a vocal advocate and supporter of FiLiA, a radical feminist conference that has repeatedly argued that “trans rights are inherently in conflict with sex based women’s rights”. 

And, just for fun, some things you might not have known about Collective Shout: 

Campaigned to have the visas of Tyler, the Creator and Snoop Dogg revoked on the basis of rap music “glorifying sexual violence against women”. 

Has partnerships with several transphobic “women’s rights” organizations such as Exodus Cry (whose founder compared abortion to the Holocaust) and the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (which supported the EARN IT act and lobbied against the legalization of same-sex marriage)

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Cold take: Credit card companies should not have the unilateral power to decide what is or isn't acceptable art. Also fuck weirdo puritan terfs.

Art is based off this post

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Everytime one of these "protect women and girls" orgs go viral for doing something evil I like to take a look through their "wins" and see if they've ever helped protect even one single living woman or girl.

Collective Shout has:

Gotten a hotel to cancel a legal-aged porn star's reservation

Gotten a venue to cancel a Playboy Bunny themed party - again, attended by only adults

Pressured the Breast Cancer Foundation to pull ads that they found too sexy

got ads for a sex doll company removed because they felt the dolls resembled children

Got a beer coozy that had pinups of adult women printed on them discontinued.

Got an H&M ad pulled for back to school clothes for saying "Turn Heads"

Got Tyler the Creator banned from performing in New Zealand

I'm still scrolling and I have yet to see a single instance of a real, living woman or girl being protected by any one of their actions. They have on multiple occasions punished real, adult women for the audacity to be naked in some capacity they find distasteful.

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i'm as angry as i am scared right now. back in april i gave the rise of censorship two years to come into full force. it took it less than half a year.

fuck steam, fuck itch, fuck pseudofeminists, fuck terfs and swerfs. fuck you all for not fucking giving a shit. and fuck the performative activism y'all put out every fucking year in june.

it's proving time and time again that pride will never be a fully celebrating moment, but a protest.

well, i regret (not) to tell you that us freaks aren't fucking going anywhere. we're here, we're queer, and we have kinks and fetishes that we're never gonna stop practicing one way or another. you shoo us out the door, we come in through the window.

fuck you terfs. fuck you swerfs. fuck you queer and "feminist" idiots who think kink doesn't belong in queer spaces. because this is all your fault.

thousand of QUEER devs and creatives are suffering BECAUSE OF YOU. and thousands more will because of your puritanical view of sex and queerness and fiction.

queer freaks: your art has a place on the internet. we've gotta be united now more than ever. go into your queer spaces and support each other.

they can't win. we've come too far for them to win.

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I need antis to realize that all of the current censorship of online nsfw content is a direct result of pearlclutching behaviour like theirs.

"I don't like this thing / I think it is immoral / It's icky to me / Children might see it --- therefore it shouldn't exist and everyone who consumes this content should be locked away or die."

You understand that this is a dangerous concept, yes? It is inherently fascist. You understand that the next steps will be the full censoring of trans and other LGBTQA+ content - under the guise of "it might harm our children"? We already see it happening.

You need to understand that with these people there is no nuance. It is all of nothing. This is what the pro-fiction/pro-ship/anti-censorship community has always understood and said. This is not just about "problematic ships in fiction" and "icky kinks". There will ALWAYS be someone who feels uncomfortable with something. You can not cater to everyone. You are an intelligent human being who needs to learn how to avoid things they feel uncomfortable with themselves.

For example, if any type of furry art irks you, you can not expect furry art to be shunned and banned everywhere. If you don't like certain kinks, you can not demand the internet to wipe all content involving said kink. Logically, if you are easily disturbed by war and current world happenings; you can not just tell the newspaper to stop reporting on them either.

Please educate yourselves. I can not stress this enough. This has happened before, during the Nazi regime in Germany. It was called "Entartete Kunst", meaning "Degenerate Art".

What was declared as "degenerate" art? Depictions of trans, gay, lesbian, disabled humans. Impressionism, Expressionism, Dada, art styles that looked "deformed". Everything that did not fit into the Nazis conservative view. Degenerate art was collected, locked away, burned, destroyed, sold out of the country.

You can not underestimate the slippery slope of "I think the depiction of a certain topic is problematic and bad, and therefore it should be forbidden."

Proshippers, nsfw content creators and kinky freaks are not the enemy. We advocate for freedom of expression.

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Hell yeah I'm not shadowbanned anymore getting my blog absolutely annihilated by that spritesheet somehow was totally worth it

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Another important call-in has arrived.

Last Year's "Non-Profit Killer" bill, HR 9495, is now being brought back not as an individual bill, but as an amendment that House Republicans are trying to shove into their budget reconciliation bill. To the detriment of all. This hidden section would hand over the power to remove nonprofit status from Any organization the administration doesn't agree with.

YES. THAT EVEN INCLUDES WEBSITES LIKE AO3.

You can use this website to send a written message to your Senator AND House Congressperson. And you can use the script that comes with it to call your reps too. Please do so as soon as possible, as this is a matter of grave importance. They want to do these things in secret and rush them so we don't have time to react. This is and has always been their strategy. So please help this now if you can.

You can pare down the script from the above link for a call script. So please help by calling as well if you can. Thank you.

"As your constituent, I urge you to reject the inclusion of Section 112209 in the House Ways and Means Committee's budget reconciliation package — a dangerous provision known as the “Nonprofit Killer Bill.”

This proposed law would grant the incoming administration’s Secretary of the Treasury unchecked power to revoke the tax-exempt status of religious, charitable, and advocacy organizations based on vague allegations and even classified evidence that groups cannot challenge. It would undermine the First Amendment, violate due process, and open the door to politically motivated targeting of nonprofits — including those that speak out against U.S. foreign policy or advocate for Palestinian human rights.

This legislation follows other recent attacks on free speech, such as the Antisemitism Awareness Act and the Anti-Boycott IGO Act, which would suppress student activism and Americans’ right to boycott human rights abuses. Congress must stop this growing wave of unconstitutional overreach.

I urge you to:

1) Support any amendment to strike Section 112209;

2) Vote NO on any reconciliation package that includes this provision.

Publicly oppose efforts to silence protected advocacy and dissent. Please stand up for the First Amendment and nonprofit independence!"

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antis: our community actually cares about victims

Anti community when they see a victim who copes in a different way:

Yet these people still want to call themselves normal? Sure.... sure....

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Behold... The 'normal' people

Having "get a grip" and "die die die killing you killing you" in the same sentence is crazy work.

And like....terrorism, violence and murder are very irl issues, tcest (idk what ship that is) very much is not. What kind of nonsense line of argumentation even is that?.

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"Punishment works!!!" We're drowning in three to four generations of people so pants-shittingly terrified of ever being wrong that half of everyone has constructed a worldview wherein they never even consider the possibility that they could be wrong and the other half behaves like one wrong move will make anything or anyone explode violently into a million irreperable pieces. I don't think it works guys

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