Kickstarter rolls back its mature content policy after outcry

Key points

• Kickstarter has retracted the new set of rules around mature content that it released last week, following an outcry from creators whose campaigns are affected by the change.
• While the platform still allowed "romance and spicy literature, including comics" under that policy, it enforced stricter rules around pornographic and sexually explicit content.
• Now, Kickstarter has admitted that the response it got from its community let it know "loud and clear" that the crowdfunding platform got it wrong, so it's going back to its previous rules.
• It explained in its announcement that it updated its policy because of Stripe, its payment processor that operates under its own set of rules.
• Kickstarter explained that over the past few months, it has seen a growing number of campaigns that it had already approved get suspended by Stripe mid-funding due to their nature.