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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.

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 64 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

That slope got real slippery real quick.

[–] IzzyJ@lemmy.world 48 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Why cant the payment processors just fucking ignore them oh my god

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.

[–] notarobot@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago

I think all the higher ups are afraid to admit they consume adult content so they will act as if it's wrong.

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[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 32 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't there some hacker group putting Collective Shout in the crosshairs?

[–] Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago
[–] k0e3@lemmy.ca 39 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Wait, that's actually their logo? A butthole?

[–] sdfric88@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 6 days ago (3 children)

A stretched out pink butthole full of cum, yes

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 6 days ago

New punk band name found

And kids, that's how I met your mother

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[–] IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

E Pluribus Anus.

So close to the Greendale flag from Community.

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I think there are probably some skeletons in the closets of Collective Shout's members. It's always projection with these people.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 26 points 6 days ago

Give them an inch, they'll take a mile.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

This will be fun 🍿.

(before downvoting: don't worry, this won't go over well)

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Can we go after CollectiveShout Now ??

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] ruuster13@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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?

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 5 days ago (3 children)

The founder is a well-known Christian "pro-life feminist" from Australia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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.

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[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yay were back to the 2000s again, Jack Thompson rises again !

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[–] curiousPJ@lemmy.world 15 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

Well, this is happening earlier than I thought.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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.

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Gotta love the Collective Cunts.

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