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Lobbyist campaign against payment processors (2025-07)

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	In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-access=subscription \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251229024622/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|archive-date=29 Dec 2025}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on July 24.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260129171706/https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content \|archive-date=29 Jan 2026}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260130214640/https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content \|archive-date=30 Jan 2026}}</ref>		In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-access=subscription \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251229024622/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|archive-date=29 Dec 2025}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on 24 July 2025.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260129171706/https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content \|archive-date=29 Jan 2026}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260130214640/https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content \|archive-date=30 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	De-indexing continued on August ~~10th~~, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>		De-indexing continued on 10 August, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>

	The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite ~~news~~ \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan ~~\|date=31 Jul 2025~~ \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|~~access-~~date=~~1 Aug~~ 2025 \|~~work~~=~~CBC~~ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260128053221/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|archive-date=28 Jan 2026}}</ref>		The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite web \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|website=CBC \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|access-date=21 Apr 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260128053221/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|archive-date=28 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113202032/https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>		Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113202032/https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>

	The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{~~cite~~ web\|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html~~\|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign~~\|website=notebookcheck.net\|date=~~16 Aug~~ 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251114123535/https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|archive-date=14 Nov 2025}}</ref>		The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Corsetti \|first=Adam \|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign \|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|website=notebookcheck.net \|date=21 Jul 2025 \|access-date=21 Apr 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251114123535/https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|archive-date=14 Nov 2025}}</ref>

	==See also==		==See also==

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	In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251229024622/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|archive-date=29 Dec 2025}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on July 24.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260129171706/https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content \|archive-date=29 Jan 2026}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260130214640/https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content \|archive-date=30 Jan 2026}}</ref>		In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-access=subscription \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251229024622/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|archive-date=29 Dec 2025}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on July 24.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260129171706/https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content \|archive-date=29 Jan 2026}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260130214640/https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content \|archive-date=30 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	De-indexing continued on August 10th, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>		De-indexing continued on August 10th, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>

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	The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite news \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|access-date=1 Aug 2025 \|work=CBC \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260128053221/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|archive-date=28 Jan 2026}}</ref>		The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite news \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|access-date=1 Aug 2025 \|work=CBC \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260128053221/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|archive-date=28 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org ~~\|url-status=live~~ \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113202032/https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>		Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113202032/https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>

	The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html\|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign\|website=notebookcheck.net\|date=16 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251114123535/https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|archive-date=14 Nov 2025}}</ref>		The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html\|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign\|website=notebookcheck.net\|date=16 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251114123535/https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|archive-date=14 Nov 2025}}</ref>

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	'''{{wplink\|Collective Shout}}''' is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, {{Wplink\|Melinda Tankard Reist}}. It identifies itself as: "''A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of women and sexualization of girls in media, advertising and popular culture''".<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-url=~~http~~://web.archive.org/web/20250720102043/https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|work=Collective Shout}}</ref>		'''{{wplink\|Collective Shout}}''' is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, {{Wplink\|Melinda Tankard Reist}}. It identifies itself as: "''A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of women and sexualization of girls in media, advertising and popular culture''".<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720102043/https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|work=Collective Shout}}</ref>

	The group became prominent in 2025 after their campaign against payment processors caused online gaming platforms [[Steam]] and [[Itch.io]] to de-list hundreds of games that are believed to victimize women.<ref>{{cite web\|first=Josh\|last=Taylor\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb\|title=Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io\|website=The Guardian\|date=2025-07-28}}</ref> While the advocacy is based in Australia, their movement has had an impact on other countries. {{Citation needed}}		The group became prominent in 2025 after their campaign against payment processors caused online gaming platforms [[Steam]] and [[Itch.io]] to de-list hundreds of games that are believed to victimize women.<ref>{{cite web\|first=Josh\|last=Taylor\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb\|title=Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io\|website=The Guardian\|date=2025-07-28}}</ref> While the advocacy is based in Australia, their movement has had an impact on other countries. {{Citation needed}}
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	De-indexing continued on August 10th, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>		De-indexing continued on August 10th, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>

	The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=~~http~~://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite news \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|access-date=1 Aug 2025 \|work=CBC}}</ref>		The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite news \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|access-date=1 Aug 2025 \|work=CBC}}</ref>

	Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org}}</ref>		Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org}}</ref>

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	\| ~~Name~~ = ~~Collective Shout~~		\|Description=
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	'''{{wplink\|Collective Shout}}''' is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, {{Wplink\|Melinda Tankard Reist}}. It identifies itself as: "''A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of women and sexualization of girls in media, advertising and popular culture''".<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250720102043/https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|work=Collective Shout}}</ref>		'''{{wplink\|Collective Shout}}''' is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, {{Wplink\|Melinda Tankard Reist}}. It identifies itself as: "''A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of women and sexualization of girls in media, advertising and popular culture''".<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250720102043/https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|work=Collective Shout}}</ref>

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	Collective Shout is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, {{Wplink\|Melinda Tankard Reist}}. It identifies itself as: "''A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of women and sexualization of girls in media, advertising and popular culture''".<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250720102043/https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|work=Collective Shout}}</ref>		'''{{wplink\|Collective Shout}}''' is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, {{Wplink\|Melinda Tankard Reist}}. It identifies itself as: "''A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of women and sexualization of girls in media, advertising and popular culture''".<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250720102043/https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|work=Collective Shout}}</ref>

	The group became prominent in 2025 after their campaign against payment processors caused online gaming platforms [[Steam]] and [[Itch.io]] to de-list hundreds of games that are believed to victimize women.<ref>{{cite web\|first=Josh\|last=Taylor\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb\|title=Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io\|website=The Guardian\|date=2025-07-28}}</ref> While the advocacy is based in Australia, their movement has had an impact on other countries. {{Citation needed}}		The group became prominent in 2025 after their campaign against payment processors caused online gaming platforms [[Steam]] and [[Itch.io]] to de-list hundreds of games that are believed to victimize women.<ref>{{cite web\|first=Josh\|last=Taylor\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb\|title=Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io\|website=The Guardian\|date=2025-07-28}}</ref> While the advocacy is based in Australia, their movement has had an impact on other countries. {{Citation needed}}
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	===Protest against ''Grand Theft Auto V''===		===Protest against Grand Theft Auto V (''2014'')===
	In 2014, the group started a petition against ''{{Wplink\|Grand Theft Auto V}}'' it read, "It's a game that encourages players to murder women for entertainment. The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get 'health' points." <ref name=":0" /> The video game was banned from two Australian department stores later that year.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30328314\|title='Sexually violent' GTA 5 banned from Australian stores\|website=BBC\|date=4 Dec 2014}}</ref>		In 2014, the group started a petition against ''{{Wplink\|Grand Theft Auto V}}'' it read, "It's a game that encourages players to murder women for entertainment. The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get 'health' points." <ref name=":0" /> The video game was banned from two Australian department stores later that year.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30328314\|title='Sexually violent' GTA 5 banned from Australian stores\|website=BBC\|date=4 Dec 2014}}</ref>

	===Lobbyist campaign against payment processors===		===Lobbyist campaign against payment processors (''2025-07'')===
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	*[[Steam]]		*[[Steam]]
			*[[Itch.io]]

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	In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-access=subscription \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251229024622/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|archive-date=29 Dec 2025}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on July 24.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260129171706/https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content \|archive-date=29 Jan 2026}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260130214640/https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content \|archive-date=30 Jan 2026}}</ref>		In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-access=subscription \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251229024622/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|archive-date=29 Dec 2025}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on 24 July 2025.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260129171706/https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content \|archive-date=29 Jan 2026}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260130214640/https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content \|archive-date=30 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	De-indexing continued on August ~~10th~~, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>		De-indexing continued on 10 August, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>

	The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite ~~news~~ \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan ~~\|date=31 Jul 2025~~ \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|~~access-~~date=~~1 Aug~~ 2025 \|~~work~~=~~CBC~~ \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260128053221/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|archive-date=28 Jan 2026}}</ref>		The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite web \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|website=CBC \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|access-date=21 Apr 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260128053221/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|archive-date=28 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113202032/https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>		Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113202032/https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>

	The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{~~cite~~ web\|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html~~\|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign~~\|website=notebookcheck.net\|date=~~16 Aug~~ 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251114123535/https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|archive-date=14 Nov 2025}}</ref>		The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Corsetti \|first=Adam \|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign \|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|website=notebookcheck.net \|date=21 Jul 2025 \|access-date=21 Apr 2026 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251114123535/https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|archive-date=14 Nov 2025}}</ref>

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	In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251229024622/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|archive-date=29 Dec 2025}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on July 24.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260129171706/https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content \|archive-date=29 Jan 2026}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260130214640/https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content \|archive-date=30 Jan 2026}}</ref>		In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-access=subscription \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251229024622/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|archive-date=29 Dec 2025}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on July 24.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260129171706/https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content \|archive-date=29 Jan 2026}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260130214640/https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content \|archive-date=30 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	De-indexing continued on August 10th, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>		De-indexing continued on August 10th, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>

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	The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite news \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|access-date=1 Aug 2025 \|work=CBC \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260128053221/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|archive-date=28 Jan 2026}}</ref>		The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite news \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|access-date=1 Aug 2025 \|work=CBC \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260128053221/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|archive-date=28 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org ~~\|url-status=live~~ \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113202032/https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>		Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113202032/https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>

	The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html\|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign\|website=notebookcheck.net\|date=16 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251114123535/https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|archive-date=14 Nov 2025}}</ref>		The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html\|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign\|website=notebookcheck.net\|date=16 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251114123535/https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|archive-date=14 Nov 2025}}</ref>

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	'''{{wplink\|Collective Shout}}''' is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, {{Wplink\|Melinda Tankard Reist}}. It identifies itself as: "''A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of women and sexualization of girls in media, advertising and popular culture''".<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720102043/https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|work=Collective Shout}}</ref>		'''{{wplink\|Collective Shout}}''' is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by its current director, {{Wplink\|Melinda Tankard Reist}}. It identifies itself as: "''A grassroots movement challenging the objectification of women and sexualization of girls in media, advertising and popular culture''".<ref>{{Cite news \|title=Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720102043/https://www.collectiveshout.org/faq \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|work=Collective Shout}}</ref>

	The group became prominent in 2025 after their campaign against payment processors caused online gaming platforms [[Steam]] and [[Itch.io]] to de-list hundreds of games that are believed to victimize women.<ref>{{cite web\|first=Josh\|last=Taylor\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb\|title=Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io\|website=The Guardian\|date=2025-07-28}}</ref> While the advocacy is based in Australia, their movement has had an impact on other countries. {{Citation needed}}		The group became prominent in 2025 after their campaign against payment processors caused online gaming platforms [[Steam]] and [[Itch.io]] to de-list hundreds of games that are believed to victimize women.<ref>{{cite web\|first=Josh\|last=Taylor\|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb\|title=Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io\|website=The Guardian\|date=2025-07-28 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260216030319/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-visa-backlash-adult-games-removed-online-stores-steam-itchio-ntwnfb \|archive-date=16 Feb 2026}}</ref> While the advocacy is based in Australia, their movement has had an impact on other countries. {{Citation needed}}

	Some media outlets have expressed concern that the organization's censorship of adult content in the video game industry negatively impacts creative freedom.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Farokhmanesh \|first=Megan \|date=30 Jul 2025 \|title=Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250823055403/https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-about-the-censorship-of-nsfw-games-and-theyre-fighting-back \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250823055403/https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-about-the-censorship-of-nsfw-games-and-theyre-fighting-back/ \|archive-date=23 Aug 2025 \|access-date=23 Aug 2025 \|work=WIRED}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Dodds \|first=Io \|date=18 Aug 2025 \|title=‘Financial companies shouldn’t be in this position’: How more than 20,000 NSFW video games fell under censorship \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/video-game-censorship-visa-mastercard-b2809867.html \|website=The Independent}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Hughes \|first=Marley \|date=2 Aug 2025 \|title=This Advocacy Group is Threatening Video Games as We Know It \|url=https://www.cbr.com/collective-shout-video-game-censorship/ \|website=CBR}}</ref>		Some media outlets have expressed concern that the organization's censorship of adult content in the video game industry negatively impacts creative freedom.<ref>{{Cite news \|last=Farokhmanesh \|first=Megan \|date=30 Jul 2025 \|title=Gamers Are Furious About the Censorship of NSFW Games—and They’re Fighting Back \|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250823055403/https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-about-the-censorship-of-nsfw-games-and-theyre-fighting-back \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250823055403/https://www.wired.com/story/gamers-are-furious-about-the-censorship-of-nsfw-games-and-theyre-fighting-back/ \|archive-date=23 Aug 2025 \|access-date=23 Aug 2025 \|work=WIRED}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Dodds \|first=Io \|date=18 Aug 2025 \|title=‘Financial companies shouldn’t be in this position’: How more than 20,000 NSFW video games fell under censorship \|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/video-game-censorship-visa-mastercard-b2809867.html \|website=The Independent \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260210210840/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/video-game-censorship-visa-mastercard-b2809867.html \|archive-date=10 Feb 2026}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web \|last=Hughes \|first=Marley \|date=2 Aug 2025 \|title=This Advocacy Group is Threatening Video Games as We Know It \|url=https://www.cbr.com/collective-shout-video-game-censorship/ \|website=CBR \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113150416/https://www.cbr.com/collective-shout-video-game-censorship/ \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>

	==Incidents==		==Incidents==

	===Protest against Grand Theft Auto V (''2014'')===		===Protest against Grand Theft Auto V (''2014'')===
	In 2014, the group started a petition against ''{{Wplink\|Grand Theft Auto V}}'' it read, "It's a game that encourages players to murder women for entertainment. The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get 'health' points." <ref name=":0" /> The video game was banned from two Australian department stores later that year.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30328314\|title='Sexually violent' GTA 5 banned from Australian stores\|website=BBC\|date=4 Dec 2014}}</ref>		In 2014, the group started a petition against ''{{Wplink\|Grand Theft Auto V}}'' it read, "It's a game that encourages players to murder women for entertainment. The incentive is to commit sexual violence against women, then abuse or kill them to proceed or get 'health' points." <ref name=":0" /> The video game was banned from two Australian department stores later that year.<ref name=":0">{{cite web\|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30328314\|title='Sexually violent' GTA 5 banned from Australian stores\|website=BBC\|date=4 Dec 2014 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260216030420/https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-30328314 \|archive-date=16 Feb 2026}}</ref>

	===Lobbyist campaign against payment processors (''2025-07'')===		===Lobbyist campaign against payment processors (''2025-07'')===
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	In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on July 24.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025}}</ref>		In July 2025, Collective Shout launched a public campaign "demanding credit card companies and PayPal block payments" for games on Steam and Itch.io.<ref name=":02">{{Cite news \|last=Bita \|first=Natasha \|date=15 Jul 2025 \|title=Child safety group finds 500 online 'games' role-playing rape and incest \|url=https://www.theaustralian.com.au/education/child-safety-group-finds-500-online-games-roleplaying-rape-and-incest/news-story/b30c59f85ff22934844269cb3beff538 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://archive.ph/koDk8 \|archive-date=18 Jul 2025 \|access-date=18 Jul 2025 \|work=The Australian}}</ref><ref name="RPSCS">{{Cite news \|last=Evans-Thirlwell \|first=Edwin \|date=22 Jul 2025 \|title=Anti-porn group who tried to ban GTA 5 claim credit for Steam's sex game crackdown \|url=https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|access-date=23 Jul 2025 \|work=Rock Paper Shotgun \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251229024622/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/anti-porn-group-who-tried-to-ban-gta-5-claim-credit-for-steams-sex-game-crackdown \|archive-date=29 Dec 2025}}</ref> Itch.io responded by de-indexing games with explicit content on July 24.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content\|title=Update on NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=24 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260129171706/https://itch.io/updates/update-on-nsfw-content \|archive-date=29 Jan 2026}}</ref> On July 31, they re-indexed free games with explicit content.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content\|title=Reindexing adult NSFW content\|website=Itch.io\|date=31 Jul 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260130214640/https://itch.io/t/5149036/reindexing-adult-nsfw-content \|archive-date=30 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	De-indexing continued on August 10th, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>		De-indexing continued on August 10th, this time of games with explicit content and of LGBTQ+ games without explicit content.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Lazine \|first=Mira \|title='I feel violated' - Queer Creators Lose Livelihoods in Itch.io Bans \|url=https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|website=Trans News Network \|date=9 Aug 2025 \|access-date=24 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250819013331/https://transnews.network/p/i-feel-violated-queer-creators-lose-livelihoods-in-itch-io-bans \|archive-date=19 Aug 2025}}</ref>

	The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite news \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|access-date=1 Aug 2025 \|work=CBC}}</ref>		The group claims to have lobbied payment processors after sending 3,000 emails to Steam and receiving no response.<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Steam at Collective Shout \|url=https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250720103220/https://www.collectiveshout.org/tags/steam \|archive-date=20 Jul 2025 \|access-date=7 Aug 2025 \|website=Collective Shout}}</ref><ref name="CBCCards">{{Cite news \|last=Ore \|first=Jonathan \|date=31 Jul 2025 \|title=How an anti-porn lobby on payment processors censored thousands of video games \|url=https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|access-date=1 Aug 2025 \|work=CBC \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20260128053221/https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/steam-itch-takedowns-credit-cards-1.7597563 \|archive-date=28 Jan 2026}}</ref>

	Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org}}</ref>		Alongside explicit content, the group also expressed a desire to have ''{{Wplink\|Detroit: Become Human}}'' de-listed from gaming platforms for purported depictions of physical abuse against women and children.<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Barbe \|first=Rebecca \|date=6 Dec 2017 \|title=Stop video game Detroit: Become Human, depicting child abuse being sold in Australia \|url=https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|url-status=live \|access-date=16 Aug 2025 \|website=change.org \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251113202032/https://www.change.org/p/the-hon-christian-porter-mp-stop-video-game-depicting-child-abuse-being-sold-in-australia \|archive-date=13 Nov 2025}}</ref>

	The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html\|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign\|website=notebookcheck.net\|date=16 Aug 2025}}</ref>		The owner of the journalism website ''{{Wplink\|Vice (magazine)\|Vice}}'' allegedly instructed certain articles related to Collective Shout to be removed from their website due to "controversial subject matter." The author of the articles and several of her co-workers resigned soon afterwards in protest.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html\|title=After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign\|website=notebookcheck.net\|date=16 Aug 2025 \|url-status=live \|archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20251114123535/https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html \|archive-date=14 Nov 2025}}</ref>

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