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Lawmaker Taro Yamada calls it what it is: financial censorship.
A handful of foreign corporations are quietly redrawing cultural boundaries. And unless that grip is broken, more creators will lose their livelihoods.
This is far from over. Sex appeal is first, then violence and then any form of media until your money is monitored and controlled!!! #rocktheboat
これはまだまだ終わらない。まずはセックスアピール、次に暴力、そしてあらゆるメディアが、あなたのお金が監視され、管理されるまで続くのだ!!! #rocktheboat
Steam's Visa, Mastercard, and censorship fiasco just keeps deteriorating
Game developers are being denied early access, while others are struggling to get paid in the ongoing saga
WE'RE DOING A DAILY DEAL THE DAY BEFORE #SILKSONG!
WE'RE LIKE MEGA MAN X + UNDERTALE/DELTARUNE + 🌶️🌶️
- Action-Adventure platformer
- Choices matter
- 5000+ event branches
- 21+ endings
- 300+ fully voiced NPCs
- 100+ H-animations
(SEXY Trailer & game link in the first reply!)
it's funny how Collective Shout is suddenly playing victim after years of attacking gamers, demonizing innocent games + anime, and trying to police what ppl enjoy. now they're crying "gamergate on steroids" like the backlash wasn't earned.
gamers n devs have been vilified for decades, just for loving games.
we did nothing but play. then outta nowhere, journos n feminists started tearing down our hobbies, insulting us, and calling us freaks.
we stayed quiet. we tried to ignore it.
for what? we minded our own business. we played games. made friends. built communities.
you barged into our space, trashed everything we loved, and when we finally push back, suddenly we're "violent, pedos, misogynists"?
we didn't ask for politics. we didn't start culture wars.
you spent years attacking us. now you throw bitch fits because we're not taking it anymore.
we just wanted to play video games and have a good time.
you didn't want us to.
I was interviewed by a well-known Japanese gaming media outlet about the issue of game removals on Steam and Itchio. Until now, financial censorship has been carried out in secret, but with CollectiveShout's statement partially explaining the process, it has become clearer than ever that the rationale for this censorship is sloppy. Even in Japan, many people are concerned about this issue, but information is limited, and there is a need to provide more detailed information about the current situation and mechanisms. I will update you again when the interview is released.
The petition against Mastercard and Visa censorship has exceeded 250,000 signatures.
Mastercard issued a statement this month but has not addressed inconsistencies in their prohibited content policy.
Let's maintain the pressure.
Not only has the censorship delisted my game from @itchio but they are holding payouts hostage. This is also reported by creators such as @OolayTiger and other big names.
I might not be able to pay my partners this month, after they worked hard to continue progress on our game.
With the censorship of games it now extends into all media with sex appeal. It is time to #rocktheboat
ゲームの検閲は、今や性的魅力のあるあらゆるメディアにまで及んでいます。#rocktheboat の時が来ました。
I guess, Visa employees are breaking down at the seams with the endless tide of calls?
If Visa frontline call centre employees need to blame someone, blame their bosses for making their lives miserable.
Also, yeah, calling callers 🍇pists, oh that’ll work well for them…
This is how it feels right now with all of this disgusting rise of censorship, AI domination, defunding of systems to support humanity, and generally the rise of fascism and hatred towards fellow man.
I am fighting however I can to stop this. I hope others are too. Fight.
“Real ID” isn’t inevitable. It’s just being marketed that way. Governments said this was to protect kids. Now it’s about trolls and "accountability". Next it’ll be finance. Mission creep is the point.
A verification token still means someone decides who gets access and who doesn’t. That’s a speech license, not safety.
You don’t stop disinfo by tagging everyone. You just build a system where dissent can be silenced by revoking your token.
If it were really inevitable, they wouldn’t need influencers selling it.
We need smarter rate limits, proof-of-human tools, and real control over algorithms. You fight bad behavior with better systems, not surveillance.
I can’t believe Spotify now requires age verification. Today it’s music, tomorrow it could be books, films, or even news articles. It's the first step into a dystopian reality we’ve seen in movies, where access to culture is gated by surveillance and the illusion of security.