Everyone forgets IGG banning Rebel Yell, and a few others due to their Pro-Right-of-center presentation. Rebel Yell has the stars n bars on his face. To my knowledge there were no lynchings or cross burnings in the book. Yet it bit the dust.
This fantasy of an open platform is kind of adorable. Ultimately, even FMC has to conform to a set of guidlines from their host, and payment processing providers.
If you want to make books, and piss off people with platforms to sell those books... Well, you're going to have a bad time.
Shadow banning is gay, but so is straight up banning people who aren't depicting unlawful things. (ex: cheese pizza)
But we don't live in a timeline where minding your own business is practiced. So if you want to exist on their platforms, you have to conform to their desired behaviors. Like it or not, we as creators exist inside of THEIR territory. Whether they built or not; whether they care or not---is irrelevant. They command the platform's risk management department and there's no prying them out of there. If the appeal to a greater outcome worked, they would have turned away from the SJW banhammer practices, and embraced an open dialogue. But they haven't, and have signaled they will NOT be doing so.
This isn't like a sit in, people just see the presence of a contrary concept and remove it. There's no humanity about it. It's seek and destroy. IGG holds off because they like the fees they scrape from each sale. CG makes up their comics space, and it would otherwise be pretty vacant without CG funneling in projects.
There's no reason to pretend IGG, or KS is your friend. There's no cause to see either as changing their stance anytime either. From what it looks like, KS is fine missing out on the processing fees. IGG? Not so much.
Out of the two, KS treats the backers better, and so I prefer using that platform over IGG. For whatever reason, Indiegogo feels slimey and rundown. Like there's a thin film of scum all over every page.
KS seems cleaner.
