Collective shout seems to have expanded its scope: games like cult classic Fear And Hunger have been removed from Itch.io, while horror game VILE: Exhumed has been delisted from Steam just a week after launch.
Gotta love the Collective Cunts.
One thing I’m hearing a lot of is that this is a Christian lobby group. I did not see obvious signs of that on their website, though some of the language felt like an intentional alternative to how I (social worker) would discuss issues of women’s empowerment. Like they were holding space to later include “LGBTQ+” in their definition of problematic content. I am more than willing to believe an activist group from that demographic would lie to push their true agenda. Who has a good news source discussing their ideology?
The founder is a well-known Christian “pro-life feminist” from Australia.
She was the founding director of Women’s Forum Australia, […] It also promotes a trans-exclusionary ideology and campaigns against transgender rights.
Right so assuming she’s not Lesbian, then her being anti-LGBTQ+ is a safe bet. If she somehow is Lesbian, she’s going to be anti-BTQ+ at the very least.
This will be fun 🍿.
(before downvoting: don’t worry, this won’t go over well)
Isn’t there some hacker group putting Collective Shout in the crosshairs?
Hope so.
Honestly horrors get old when you can read in the news about “respected people” calling to exterminate Gaza and build beachfront cottages there. Even from just reading that and knowing that the same people can put anything onto your Android devices via a Facebook update or any of the Google applications update, on a whim. Nobody will even know.
About this - is it even legal to obey such pressure?
EDIT: I mean, how is it different from banning sellers by skin color when racists complain, or by religion when Muslims complain (all Hindus are Satan worshipers, didntcha knaw), or whatever else.
EDIT2: But it pains me to see how public offering was, in fact, an important part of market regulations, when everybody just ignores it without getting 9 lifetimes in jail for executives. I was against it at some point. That is - customer associations are important, and there are almost none, and when customer associations demand businesses to act like public offering, then it’s almost as good as if enforced, and no such regulation is a good stimulus for customer associations to keep existing. But - feels shitty when it’s in the law of most countries and hasn’t been removed.
I think there are probably some skeletons in the closets of Collective Shout’s members. It’s always projection with these people.
Why cant the payment processors just fucking ignore them oh my god
I think all the higher ups are afraid to admit they consume adult content so they will act as if it’s wrong.
Or you know, try bitcoin instead? 🤷🏻♂️
The people who would typically be expected to push back against collective shout also typically wouldn’t be expected to do anything effective whereas the people involved with collective shout are the type of people who give politicians money.
Wait, that’s actually their logo? A butthole?
E Pluribus Anus.
So close to the Greendale flag from Community.
A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes
New punk band name found
gross, who would fuck them?
And kids, that’s how I met your mother
Yay were back to the 2000s again, Jack Thompson rises again !
don’t you mean Joe Lieberman?
That slope got real slippery real quick.
Give them an inch, they’ll take a mile.
Wow… This count have happened in the 2010’s with the anti-gaming feminist and conservative movement at the time.
If only they knew to go after payment processors instead of identity groups.
To be fair… Funger is pretty brutal, a little past regular “horror”. Definitely against the censorship tho.
Well, this is happening earlier than I thought.
Can we go after CollectiveShout Now ??
We should, but also they aren’t the root cause. If they’re gone, there’s nothing stopping a different group from doing the same thing (except for fear of retaliation). The ideal solution is to force payment processors to process any payment for legal content.
