Adult content creators and gamers alike have focused intensely on Collective Shout, and for good reason. The group is proudly touting its work pressuring payment processors to get hundreds of Steam games banned. But Collective Shout is the beginning, not the end, of a far larger issue. The organization is clearly networked with some far bigger players in the world of online censorship. Whether that’s Exodus Cry or NCOSE, it’s likely that Collective Shout has some heavy-hitters working behind the scenes in order to accomplish its goals.

But unless Collective Shout directly publishes its list of so-called “child abuse” games on Steam, its public bluster on the topic appears to be manipulative in nature, akin to how it treated GTA and Detroit: Become Human in the past. In other words, concerned feminists worried about Collective Shout’s credibility may want to side with the gamers on this one: The so-called feminist organization pushing for Steam censorship isn’t telling you the full truth.

It was never about “protecting children”, it’s about pushing a censorship agenda.