# deindexed on itch io some people getting grief on social about _not_ instantly feeling sad about poor old itch.io's obvious extended korporate efforts in dealing (good choice of words) with evil payment processors - and thus helping the very artists it benefits from *makes best pseudo_irish pea-pod pixie voice_ "ooh pleeese don't hurt me i'm just a humble plucky aaa-indie company just trying to get buy" was surprisingly also at minor ideological loggerheads with cool videographic researcher and critic brendan keogh who - having rightly gone to bat critiquing big evil gaming corporations in ir book seemed to have flipped too much the other way in acting too uncritical and overly auto-supportive of successful aaa-indie platform itch yet again the real victims of this censorship-via-payment-processing storm however are the lgbtq+ / disabled / sex worker community who are deindexed disproportionately from the heart of the conversation - because censorship of progressive minorities by fascist hate groups is the real issue here not the relative economic health of just another platform skimming off ir profits (for no-doubt reasonable rates and the most noble of /economic intentions natch) what is it with marks continually auto-defending simple holy companies (always started in some humble garage) like these platforms are somehow doing the artist community a favor - instead of the other way around see apparently poor old itch.io had no choice'(tm) - "simply following orders you understand"- but to instantly comply in advance and bend over to its evil near-future cyberpunk hypercorporate payment-processing lizard overlords - without a single sentence of protest or condemnation against those who started it thing is it's the actual artists working _for_ itch (and not merely on it) who are suffering and suddenly unable to depend on ir pennies-income used for paying bills food and medicare - so who gives a tuppenny fnart if some larger faceless parent organism is having a hard time collecting ir profits yet again (due to straight-up christofascist interference) it's the artists themselves who are mysteriously and conveniently forgotten in mainstream media journo and gaming academic discussions it's not like the bosses and owners of these well off platforms aren't going to survive and land on ir perfumed feet unscathed recommended read - "the videogame industry does not exist: why we should think beyond commercial game production" (2023 mit press) https://brkeogh.com/books/ // republic of bob