Collective Shout

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Collective Shout is an Australian activist group founded in 2009 by Melinda Tankard Reist. It describes itself as "a grassroots movement against the objectification of women and sexualisation of girls in media, advertising and popular culture." Various news and advocacy organizations have described its agenda as anti-porn. Collective Shout have protested the Australian release of films, books, and music they say sexualize women, as well as sales of child sex dolls. The group garnered attention in 2025 after their successful campaign to get the digital distribution platforms Steam and Itch.io to remove hundreds of video games they asserted featured objectionable content such as rape, incest, and sexual violence. In the immediate aftermath, Itch.io temporarily deindexed all not-safe-for-work adult games. Collective Shout had initially petitioned Steam directly, but only achieved their goal after convincing payment processors to pressure game stores to remove the games. The campaign has elicited...

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