Video game industry trade organizations and gamers are speaking out against censorship campaigns that forced Steam and Itch.io to mass deindex NSFW content
Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired :
Some users are circumventing UK's age checks by using VPNs, providing fake AI-generated photo IDs, or using images of high-fidelity video game characters
It's a privacy nightmare and is the slipperest of slopes. @kaidzsu.com : my headcanon is twitter rolled out the UK age verification nightmare for the entirety of Europe because the one remaining devel...
Indie open gaming marketplace Itch.io abruptly deindexes NSFW content from its browse and search pages after payment processors raised concerns, following Steam
The gaming marketplace is bowing to pressure from payment providers, much like Valve and Tumblr before it.
Bluesky rolls out age verification in the UK to comply with the Online Safety Act; users under 18 or opting out of age verification will have limited accounts
The Online Safety Act has unleashed an unregulated market in age verification. — That we have to do these intrusive checks with countless providers for different platforms is dangerous. — www.thev...
X changes its adult content policies, formally letting users post consensual NSFW and AI content “provided it's properly labeled and not prominently displayed”
The internet has been home to all kinds of content for a long time, so it was no surprise to anyone when people started tweeting porn at each other.
Gumroad, an e-commerce company for creators, updates its rules to more strictly limit NSFW content, citing policies of payment processors like Stripe and PayPal
Somehow marketplace owners are not allowed to disclose who is threatening to pull the plug behind their negotiations. — It is not like they are threaten by a 3-letter national agency and secret cour...
Reddit suspended some moderators after they changed their subreddits to NSFW as “incorrectly marking a community as NSFW” violates its content and mod policies
Reddit has started removing moderator teams managing subreddits that switched the labeling on their communities to Not Safe For Work …
Tumblr says it will permanently ban adult content from its platform beginning December 17
Tumblr will ban 'female-presenting nipples … Heather Kelly / CNN : How Tumblr's adult content crackdown could alienate users Andy Meek / BGR : Tumblr is banning all adult content in a major shift for ...
Patreon's recent crackdown on adult content worries sex workers and creators of erotic art
NSFW Warning: This story may contain links to and descriptions or images of explicit sexual acts. — On October 17th, crowdfunding website Patreon amended the terms of its acceptable use policy as pa...