I did not think their minds would be so fucked up to work that way, as I’m nothing like that myself. I wish there was a way to ban just rape and incest, and it not snowball into something uncontrollable, then.

Okay this is very thought provoking, and makes the situation more complex than I expected

But yeah, guess it should be up to the store and not the payment processors

sometiems you do see stuff you didn’t want to without seeking it out

I certainly didn’t want to see you on the internet today but I’m not calling to cancel Lemmy.

The reason I know about incest games existing on steam is because it showed up on my recommendations or something once, without me actively seeking it out.

Only if you clicked the little checkbox to enable sexually explicit games to be recommended.

I guess just don’t see how they’d think “ok we got rid of the rape and incest, now let’s go Nazi on everything else”

It doesn’t have to be full Nazi, a right wing CEO could decide that all trans content is immoral and should not be sold. This wingnut Australian group already has their sights set on non-hetero games.

Hot sauce has a HUGE market, large variety of clients and brands, I’m sure one had the word “sex” or “boob”, something like that that made them block it. Pretty sad.

It’s funny they want us to BUY games and not pirate, then literally remove any method to purchase it. Just stay on your ship in the seas.

What about the 1000 rape/SA movies? Should those be removed too? I love a good revenge movie where the women come back and fuck up their attackers.

I’ve never played any games like the ones removed, but the principal still stands, when they decide people shouldn’t buy or own something, they just block it?

What happens when they decide anything homosexual should be blocked? Or anything non Christian? Or anything regarding BLM? who the fuck are they to say ANYTHING at all?

I do see a difference between it being part of a storyline that gives you a justice boner, and something actually glorifying the thing. I’ve seen lots of movies and shows where someone gets raped and the rapist gets what they deserve. I have not seen any rape games yet, but the incest games I’ve seen where the point of the game is to fuck your huge tittied mother

LGBT, homosexual, non-christian, I did not initially see as part of the subject, but I get what you’re saying

I’m sorry you didn’t want to see someone asking a question. You didn’t have to answer it but thank you for your answer

I don’t remember clicking such a checkbox, but the last thing I’d expect to see regarding sexually explicit content is stuff like rape or incest.

It is an actual slippery slope and not a fallacy because we have been down the censorship road many, many times.

I hope interac uses this opening, I already primarily use them but they don’t do credit.

First question: Why is it okay for payment processors to conduct censorship of any kind? Why is it their place to decide what is and is not buyable?

Second question: What’s the next thing some right-wing death cult is going to pressure them into censoring? Anything addressing minority rights? Any adult content at all? What about sex toys, birth control drugs, abortion drugs, hormone treatments? What else are they going to cull from society by saying “Get rid of this or we’re not going to allow you to do any business in the world?”

So did did Visa and MasterCard ever stop payments to… like… Infowars? I know PayPal went after them but the credit card networks are a level even higher.

It’s also too awkward to actually use.

Rupay and UPI are good alternatives.

I can’t sign it. It tell me my perfectly valid mail address is not valid

I was always a bit “Why would I bother with crypto instead of fiat?”, I just got an answer. Hopefully Steam/big names affected by this adopt crypto payment processors.

Yeah, a lot of hot sauces have extremely graphic names. Probably more along the lines of nonconsensual backdoor usage.

Not only 1000 calls. 1000 calls, plus a long standing and often previously acted upon stick-up-the-ass opposition to sex. This is far from the first incident. They were predisposed to the hate group’s message, and perhaps chose to use them as scapegoats for their own decisions.