cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36433609

  • Itch.io now blocks UK users from viewing NSFW game creator profiles, though some individual adult games remain accessible after age verification.
  • The restrictions started in August and align with the UK’s Online Safety Act requiring stricter age checks for adult content.
  • Developers lose UK discoverability while players can’t browse creator catalogs, forcing them to rely on direct links shared elsewhere.
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      Although subtle, there is a very slight difference between “right wing party drifting even further to the right to court voters sympathetic to fascism to line the pockets of themselves and their friends” and “firmly centrist but pretending not to be party drifting even further to the right to court voters sympathetic to fascism to line the pockets of themselves and their friends”.