Lupi

Thank you for writing about this! I write about adult games every week, and it's hard not to notice these developers dread being cut off from financial institutions:

• https://www.naughtylist.news/p/paypal-drains-adult-game-makers-account
• https://www.naughtylist.news/p/game-jolt-bans-adult-games-overnight

Unfortunately, it's hard to gain traction on these topics, whether that's due to a nebulous Algorithm or just because my posts aren't that good lmao

Thank you for writing this.

Thank you for laying all of this out. Every time I hear a quote from NCOSE that doesn’t disclose they are a conservative activist organization—or whatever you’d call them—I want to scream. Having done real work for NCMEC and Polaris (we got times from report to local enforcement from 4-5 hrs to 15 mins), it infuriates me to see journalists cite NCOSE at the same level of expertise when they aren’t.

As far as I can tell NCOSE exists inly to perpetuate conservative grooming as they reject all the things proven to make kids safer (early sex ed, legal SW, not overwhelming ncmec and similar with spurious reports from overly sensitive detection algorithms).

I also recommend this financial times piece that talks about just how arbitrary those rules really are from the financial side: https://archive.ph/zXKuD

My gut says that times like this are a great opportunity for a company like CCBill to swoop in and grab a big chunk of market share, since they've been the company that people who get kicked off other professors go to in the past. However, I've already seen CCBill get collar-tuggy about some specific types of content on a couple pay sites. Itch is a big enough platform to bring in a big swell of revenue for anyone willing to take it, the question is whether there's someone in the venn diagram of "big enough to handle succeeding here" and "small enough to be willing to grab this specific ring."