GOG Launches NSFW Game Giveaway "To Raise Awareness On Censorship In Gaming"

Here is a 177-word summary of the news article: GOG, a digital game distribution platform, has launched a website called FreedomToBuy.games where users can claim 13 games that have been delisted from other online sales portals for free. GOG says this giveaway is a "protest against the quiet erasure of creative works from digital shelves." The games being offered are mostly sexually explicit and were recently removed from platforms like Steam and Itch.io due to pressure from payment processors like Mastercard and Visa. This was prompted by a campaign from the conservative anti-porn organization Collective Shout, which called for the removal of games depicting rape, incest, and child sexual abuse. Developers and players have criticized this as "financial censorship," arguing that payment processors are dictating what content adults are allowed to purchase and play. Both Mastercard and Visa have stated they do not make moral judgments, but require enhanced safeguards for merchants facing an elevated risk of illegal activity, despite no claims of illegality regarding the removed games. GOG's giveaway aims to "make a statement" that if a game is legal, players should be free to buy and enjoy it.