
Technology Facilitated Violence Against Women
Documentation and analysis of online abuse targeting Collective Shout This report examines the sustained campaign of hostility, harassment and harm directed at Collective Shout during 2025-26 following its advocacy to remove video games depicting rape, incest, sexual torture and child sexual abuse material from the digital distribution platforms Steam and Itch.io. The investigation finds that the backlash extended far beyond a policy dispute. Instead, it constituted a large-scale, multi-vector, coordinated campaign of abuse conducted across multiple online environments and characterised by misogyny, disinformation and harassment and attempts to undermine the organisationโs staff and operational capacity.










