@itchio There is a petition you can sign from ACLU if you are against Mastercard doing this to multiple sites with adult content https://t.co/JTDuve4djl
@itchio Not even reading this. You deleted games in the middle of the night for the majority of users, you gave no warnings, you delisted all of nsfw games. What is next? We'll wake up another day to find all of violent content gone? Queer content? Games that name alcohol?
@itchio Reminder that Collective Shout is a radical religious group that wants broad censorship across media: https://t.co/UHGkBqbV0C
Vice's owner Savage Ventures is trying to scrub this article from the internet "due to the controversial subject matter, not journalistic complaints."
@ChibiReviews@CollectiveShout You do not fuck with gamers. We have been dedicated to this hobby for years and for many of us for at least 20 years.
We will expose all these communists trying to censor our hobby
Steam just wiped a swath of adult games from the platform.
But this wasn’t about content moderation.
This was about moral leverage and regulatory staging.
The group behind it isn’t new.
They’re old-school. Polished. Strategic.
And now they’ve got a seat at the table.
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🕵️♀️ Meet Collective Shout - an Australian NGO that calls itself a “grassroots feminist campaign” against sexual exploitation.
But their structure, funding, and tactics tell a very different story.
One that ties together religion, regulation, finance, and control.
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Their public language? Feminist activism.
Their back-end architecture? Religious moral governance, tax-optimized and legally opaque.
Their founder, Melinda Tankard Reist, spent 12 years as a political advisor to a conservative Catholic senator. She knows how power works.
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Legally, the group is both:
✅ A Public Benevolent Institution (for tax-deductible donations)
✅ A Basic Religious Charity (which exempts them from financial transparency)
They claim to be non-sectarian.
But on paper? They're registered to advance religion.
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They run campaigns to pressure corporations, payment processors, and platforms - Steam, Spotify, Walmart, Visa.
Their method?
Take cultural targets like porn games, sex-positive media, or controversial art, and label them as:
> “rape,” “child abuse,” “sexual torture,”
Even when it's… anime.
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It’s not a critique. It’s a tactic:
📩 Open letters to payment processors
📨 Mass email generators to banks
📢 Public shaming cycles via moral panic
The goal isn’t policy.
It’s compelled deplatforming via reputational threat.
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But the big play isn’t the banhammer.
It’s Age Verification.
Collective Shout now sits on the official Australian government advisory panel for online age gating policy.
That’s not activism.
That’s infrastructure capture.
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“Age verification” sounds like safety.
But it’s the perfect pretext for building a universal identity tether to online activity.
And once you tie identity to content access?
You can tie it to wallets.
Enter: CBDCs, fake “regulated stablecoins,” and behavioral finance.
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The gameplan is this:
1. Use NGOs like Collective Shout as moral vanguards
2. Push age-gating laws as “protection”
3. Normalize online ID binding
4. Roll in regulated currency and wallet access
5. You now control speech, spending, access & identity
A perfect AI-fed compliance net.
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Collective Shout is the cultural lubrication layer for a digital control scaffold.
Their campaigns aren’t about games. They’re about justification.
They make the censorship feel necessary - even inevitable.
Once installed, the system doesn’t ask for control. It just has it.
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We built a full influence dossier on this group and its founder:
* Their legal, financial, and political structure
* Their affiliations with World Vision, NCOSE, and Christian NGOs
* Their funding opacity and global campaign coordination
* Their use as a proxy for infrastructure rollout
It’s 🔥. And it’s public.
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📄 Reports here:
1. The Architecture of a Moral Crusade - An Influence Dossier on Collective Shout
https://t.co/4WQzs1OOOa
2. Melinda Tankard Reist - Influence & Identity Dossier
https://t.co/L3WoBzFJvq
Fully cited. Publicly sourced. Created in under 30 seconds (with about 20 minutes of waiting around) using handcrafted AI prompts and Gemini Deep Research to document these prominent public figures for the public good, education, and research purposes.
This is prompted intelligence. Not speculation.
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If you want to understand:
* How culture wars become regulation
* How NGOs build narrative cover for surveillance scaffolds
* How real-time OSINT can expose the power behind the moral panic
Then this thread is the tip of the spear.
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🚨 Steam’s ToS now defers to the most conservative payment network involved.
No consistent standard. Just “whatever Visa doesn’t want you to see.”
Welcome to the age of Moral-Compliance-as-a-Service.
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And if you think this is just Australia?
The UK’s doing it too.
The EU will follow.
The US will wrap it in "child trafficking" panic and leapfrog the tech stack with AI-generated flagging.
The point isn’t censorship.
The point is control of flow.
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📢 So let’s be clear:
This didn’t take a team of analysts.
It didn’t take a newsroom.
It took 30 seconds of prompting.
We asked the right questions.
We summoned the full picture.
And now it’s yours.
Welcome to Collaborative Dynamics.
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