Do we have any idea how all of the laws that sre trying to passed would affect Neocities? Has Kyle made a statement at all?

in order to comply with the UK online safety act, neocities will either have to A: capitulate and do like everyone else, B: restructure into an 18+ only environment, or C: cease operations in the UK. atm there really isnt a good option esp since the uk is going to ban VPN's next.

ig a 4th option exists: try to fall through the cracks and don't change anything until the british authorities catch on.

"Due to local laws, we are temporarily restricting access to this content until X estimates your age."

The solution they offer is to pay them and thus automaticly give them banking details. Upload your ID and just give them everything that's on there. Do a sort of Live-selfie where you might be asked put on expressions to verify. Be lucky enough to have an account that's ancient. Or you should have been loud about your age from the start so their LLM could scan your profile for it.

(Still not being allowed more then 10 messages per day is a bit of a drag on this social part of the site. I know the profile and comment side is like, 5% of the site, but still)

Sure, I've started to loathe the whole site minus the people I follow and some small interactions I had and sometimes see. But we can't feed the place and people we dislike to an all consuming monster and hope it'll be done after that. I gotta stick up for the UK and large-parts-of-the European users of twitter on this one. I hate your platform, but I can't let dumbshits take it away from you.

these laws are an incredibly convienent way to track even more user data for profit, its really sick

(sick as in fucked up***)

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Please look at this piece of revisionist history they have cooked up for us: https://www.collectiveshout.org/steam_campaign_history

YEEAAAAAGHHH. WOOOOOO

Keep in mind that Itch.io updated their FAQ with the following on July 26th: "If you've collected money while in violation of terms, we may be forced to refund or freeze all pending transactions, as accounts that are in violation of our terms are not eligible for payouts."

im irritated about stuff being removed for the obvious reasons of "censorship bad" but the one im most annoyed about is mouthwashing. you know that game that's an explicit critique of misogynistic men who do awful things and the people who support them. great job guys really doing feminism out here

I hope collective shout crashes and burns catastrophically

Im glad to see them blundering

I caught a reply the Itch.io account made to someone asking about Mouthwashing. Who ever handles the socials for Itch.io stated that the dev themselves removed the game from Itch.io a while ago and all they had on their page was a link to the steam version since then. I don't know if this is true.

@virtually-isolated ohhh, I see

Fun to see you again! Hope you've been doing well! I just want you to have fun and be proud of your work, I remember you having a bit of a rough time because not that many people were engaging you and you felt like your site was not good enough. I had/have the same, too! I've looked at plenty of sites that were hand crafted in CSS and I just want to obliterate mine because I got nothing and I can't even draw my own-

elements like borders, let alone any other type of decoration. But we persist. We get better over time and we gotta accept that even if we feel overcast by some one else's work, remember, no one does it like you do. Sure, there are people that can make more beautiful things then us regarding webdesign, but look at you and your gamedev skills! I'm sure plenty of people feel the way you do about other people site, but-

about your games! I'm sure there are people who look at what you can do and also feel demotivated. I hope I'm helping and putting things in a bit of perspective. I like your work and I think it's terrible that you felt unseen and like you shouldn't have tried.

Thank you for the kindest words! I'm updating my site's teaser image again right now!

Thank you so much! Your site has so many resources aahh! I need to make a tools/software page soon! <3

wait what? what happened?

For a while now, Payment Processors like Paypal, Visa Mastercard and such, have been dropping support and no longer allow their payment service to be used on markets/sites with "adult"content. Now, you might reconize the pattern. They went after OnlyFans. A lobbying group told payment processors that they would never support them if they catered to adult sites. Mastercard and such love money and got convinced or -

payed enough to start doing just that. Few other companies like Paypal followed them. They started with the Steam Market. They started by typing in "incest" and "rape" in the search bar and made a case those games should all be banned and payment processing companies should not be associated with that. That created a foothold for them. While there were questionable games on there, some were just Visual Novels -

where the writer is exploring their own trauma. But, this gets put in the same category and gets removed by Steam in fear of losing their Payment Processor and by extention, blocking their consumers from buying games on Steam. Now, Itch.Io is hit by the same thing. They are forced to hide or remove ""Adult"" material to not lose one of the services they use to pay the creators on the site and keep the site itself up

The bills and other bureaucratic pieces of paper are a little vague on what truly is 'adult material'. You might recognize the pattern here. This is slowly pushed forward, under the guise of protecting people and kids from "harmful" or "adult" material. First it's "just the extreme weirdo we're getting rid of, no worry!" then its "this has controversial subject matter, better safe then sorry!"-

and so the paradigm slowly shifts. Most conservatives see a hardcore gay orgy on the same level as a fully dressed trans woman just living her life. The rethoric that being gay or anything instantly means you're a "deviant" or "degenerate" is being kept alive and is used as a weapon. And it will be used here, too. The puritan types will always pressure companies and incite them with cash. Sometimes the higher-ups of-

these companies long for the "good ol' times" themselves and go along willingly and knowingly. Certain political leaders being so brazen in public and broadcasted mediums has really emboldened similar spirited people and they get more confident about being so openly malicious.

Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk. TL:DR Stuff like Mastercard and Paypal doesn't want to provide their service to , what they claim to be, adult and inappropriate content. Sites and markets are caving in because these companies have massive power over them and their finances. I feel these bills and laws set a precedent to remove LGBTQIA+ content from the web.

To add on this; there has already been the push to condemn and block porn sites in various countries. Whole parts of American can't even jork it to youporn clips anymore. BlueSky requires UK citizens to upload their ID to get verfied to see adult content or even DM eachother. Dystopia was always here, it just looks like crappy and rusty Blade runner instead of flashy sterile Cyberpunk.

Id just like to say this hole thing was enlightening. It interesting... I didn't know this was going on.

i was only made aware of this about an hour ago because of someordinarygamer's video about it. i usually listen to something while doing chores. this anti gooning shit actually bothers me

Comment restriction lifted after 24 hours! To add more; Patreon was hit with this in... 2018 I believe? Payment processing companies refused service because "adult material" after a small group was able to pin-point a few isolated cases of actual bad stuff. Using these extreme examples to start the debate in their favor. Painting with broad strokes. Finding the worst to get to the mediums & later the smallest people.

You cannot defeat most things in 1 fell swoop. Ideas, organizations & collectives and so on. But chipping off corners that you can paint as horrible or "degenerate" to a broader audience is how you kill something slowly. By moving goalposts over time. As the phrase goes: "Meet me in the middle! says the unjust man. You take a step forward and he takes 2 steps back. Meet me in the middle! says the unjust man."

This movement of purging 'adult' material from the internet also hurts sex workers. Self-reliant people in this sector who would be on something like OnlyFan or Fansley are being pushed away and their livelihood taken away. This is also pushes people into the larger porn industry which is riddled with it's own severe problems. Let alone how a lot of art or written pieces about sexual safety & exploration are targeted

Thank you!! I really have only scratched the surface, I hope to make a bunch more guides as time allows. I am very excited and I hope this site can be a good resource to beginner editors x

i did notice <3 im glad to help

No problem, I love your gallery!