LB's Banned Books Sale
Jul. 27th, 2025 05:55 pmThe recent wave of censorship affecting itch.io has consequently targeted my friends, the very talented
lb_lee, and they're selling signed and decorated copies of their work. You can read more here about what happened and what they're offering. (Content warning for non-explicit talk of child abuse, which is the subject of the comic that got suspended.)
This rancid business is reminding me even more of Strikethrough (an mass deletion of LiveJournals in the 2000s, which affected communities of abuse survivors as well as fandom blogs) than it did already.
(I have edited this post to correct some previous misleading language, since another friend has reminded me that the directive to remove controversial material from platforms like itch.io comes from payment processors, not the platform itself.)
This rancid business is reminding me even more of Strikethrough (an mass deletion of LiveJournals in the 2000s, which affected communities of abuse survivors as well as fandom blogs) than it did already.
(I have edited this post to correct some previous misleading language, since another friend has reminded me that the directive to remove controversial material from platforms like itch.io comes from payment processors, not the platform itself.)
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Date: 2025-07-28 08:07 am (UTC)https://tenforward.social/@packetcat/114922326246976341 has good context.
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Date: 2025-07-28 02:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-08-04 09:07 pm (UTC)See https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/valve-pushes-back-after-mastercard-denies-quashing-adult-content-on-game-platforms