• Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.world
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    Because you have allowed the social discourse to be dominated by authoritarians, and have not supported the voices of your fellows that fight against fascism, you are now being overrun by fascists.

    Enjoy. You have no one to blame but yourselves.

  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one
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    https://www.gameshub.com/news/article/australian-anti-porn-group-collective-shout-escalates-its-war-for-video-game-censorship-2736180

    Collective Shout is a self-described feminist non-partisan organization, but has alleged ties with anti-trans and conservative organizations. The group has developed a reputation as a sort of puritan crusade that targets everything from Detroit: Become Human to Tyler, the Creator.

    This one quote tells me what kind of people Collective Shout are. First, Collective Shout will go after the low hanging fruit and then will move to LGBT themed games.

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        That would mean that they actually are responsible. I don’t think that’s correct, at best they complained to payment processors to make them enforce their pre-existing bullshit rules. That’s where the problem lies IMO, those corporations should not be allowed to ban paying for legal goods and services, especially since they have formed a cartel.

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      There’s ample evidence that a lot of recent self-identifying “feminist” grassroots organisations worldwide are fronts for (or sponsored by) christo-fascist organisations.

      After gay marriage passed to widespread popular support in multiple countries, there was a whole considered and deliberate regrouping, where they identified trans rights and porn as wedge issues that they could present their bigoted view as a progressive one. That’s why we’re suddenly inundated with orgs like this one; they’re posing as feminists and progressives but they’re actually bigots trying to occupy progressive or mainstream spaces, and give shelter to bigotry in others.

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        And yet when you call them out for co-opting the feminist label, instead of being outed by actual feminists, their detractors are publicly lambasted as being anti-feminist.

        Mission accomplished

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    People are blaming Collective Shout but crazy lobbying groups have always existed. Visa and Mastercard are solely responsible for acquiescing. Maybe it’s time we stop caring so much what people on the political extremes have to say?

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    It’d be kind of funny if some rep from steam just came out and said, ‘Wait, the Aussies wanted this? Put it all back! Add on a few more new ones even. This won’t stand.’

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    Collective shout finacials
    year: 2024
    revenue: 458043
    employee_expenses: 107000
    other_expenses: 215488
    net_surplus: 135555
    employees: 
      total_fte: 2
      full_time: 0
      part_time: 1
      casual: 4
    volunteers: 15
    donations_and_bequests: 389800
    government_grants: 0
    commercial_income: 0
    expense_to_revenue_ratio: "70.4%"
    average_expense_per_employee: 39400
    
    Leadership
    - name: Melinda Tankard Reist
      role: Founder, Movement Director
      public_socials:
        - Twitter: @MelTankardReist
        - Instagram: @collective.shout
      public_email_address: Not publicly listed
      salary: Not publicly listed
    
    - name: Caitlin Roper
      role: Campaigns Manager
      public_socials:
        - Instagram: @collective.shout
      public_email_address: Not publicly listed
      salary: Not publicly listed
    
    - name: Renee Chopping
      role: Campaigns Strategy
      public_socials:
        - LinkedIn
      public_email_address: r******@collectiveshout.org
      salary: Not publicly listed
    
    - name: Lyn Swanson Kennedy
      role: Campaigns Strategy
      public_socials:
        - Instagram: @collective.shout
      public_email_address: Not publicly listed
      salary: Not publicly listed
    
    - name: Coralie Alison
      role: Movement Operations Manager
      public_socials:
        - Twitter: @CoralieAlison
        - Instagram: @collective.shout
      public_email_address: Not publicly listed
      salary: Not publicly listed
    
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    All I wanna know is how fucked up and perverted the porn that they watch is. Anyone taking this hard of a stand against something surely must be projecting.

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    This group is shooting for very easy targets and they celebrate like they’ve won hard battles. It’s self indulgent but ultimately unimportant, nothing of value was lost here. If they keep it up long enough and choose a target people are actually willing to fight for, things might turn out differently.

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    “All these porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists so desperate to get their hands on rape-my-little-sister incest games they’re now exchanging clues on how to find them so that they don’t all die overnight,” Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist tweeted

    Ah, so this was a rational, scientific study-based campaign centered around ensuring the health and well-being of society, and not at all an emotionally-charged crusade to take material away from people you find repulsive based on content you personally object to. Got it.

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    Simple fix is to call in suspicion of child porn on their computers. Their statement look a lot like projection to me.

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      yeah it’s hard to come to any other conclusion on people who constantly think and talk about pedophilia unprompted.

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    Every accusation is a confession for these sex-negative types. The guy who shrieks the loudest about gender non-conforming people being abominable and vile is usually found 6 months later in Thailand smoking hash and hiring kathoey escorts.

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      Absolutely, and the scary part to me is how that projection includes LGBT folks also being child predators all the damn time.

      It’s like they are a bunch of bisexual pedophiles who are repressed and angry, and they get jealous when they see other people giving in to the same desires. Or, as we see all the time, they assume somebody “giving in” to their homosexuality or gender dysphoria is also “giving in” to their pedophilia.

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      “Our (winning!) campaign calling on payment processors including Visa and Mastercard to stop processing payments for rape and incest games available on Steam and other platforms has received global media attention.”

      Well that is not what I was expecting to find on their site…

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    “All these porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists so desperate to get their hands on rape-my-little-sister incest games they’re now exchanging clues on how to find them so that they don’t all die overnight,” Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist tweeted on July 18th.

    She sounds deranged.

    i wonder what her own perversion is. It’s likely quite disturbing - nobody has that much anger and scorn over other people’s sex lives and a healthy sex life of their own.

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        I did think her use of a first person pronoun there was a bit odd, but I didn’t put that together. You might be onto something.

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    Alright, time to research and rat these idiots out. The fact that they tried to ban Detroit: Become Human is enough for me to know that they’re not gamers at all and are just cookers.

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      I’m trying to follow the money and can’t find much but there are very strong ties to the Christian/Baptist community, which means that there is an above 0% chance that Advance Australia has or is providing funding.

      Their partners and partner’s partners are anti-sex (such as CATWA who believe that all prostitution is not a job but is a form of sex trafficking and appears to be against the sex industry), anti-abortion, and all board members and their associated partners are very painfully white.

      There’s also an association with the NCJWA, whose president appears to be pro Zionist and has lauded Jillian Segal as a voice of moral clarity (anti-semetic envoy for government pushing to reduce protest rights, husband made a $50k donation to Advance Australia).

      Hilariously, one of their partners is called ‘Campaign Against Sex Robots’.

      Anyway, in summary, this appears to be a very well funded right wing puritan religious group whose only games experiences are in the political realm rather than PC.

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      I’m sure if you dig deep enough into the people involved you’ll crawl out with a couple pedos, a few rapists, and more than likely some dudes who are into some really kinky shit.

      it’s always the case, always. whenever there are groups like this pushing their agenda they’re secretly trying to justify themselves.