Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship
qaz@lemmy.world 2 months agoI’ve never bought a porn game nor ever played one, but I just think it’s stupid that such large companies fold to a lobby organization and start moderating the sale of products. Christian fundamentalist activists are persistent and organized, and it’s effective. I think it’s bad how a small minority is able to dictate the lives of other people.
There’s a solid argument that most of the porn games are some form of sexual abuse. You could argue that adults should be allowed to commit fake sexual abuse but its still likely not a positive for those who consume it.
Its interesting noone here has argued for porn games, just against censorship.
Right. Most of us don’t care about the porn, which is why we’re not arguing for it. Most of us just don’t like credit card companies being allowed to dictate what we do and don’t buy.
Plus, I’m guessing anybody with an incest fetish probably understands that isn’t something to go shouting to the world if they want their position to be taken seriously.
Makes it a bit harder to tell what someone’s intentions are though doesnt it? I dont think this problem will be solved by a petition anyways, itch.io is already working on a solution and steam likely will as well but be less vocal about it and the progress they are making.
I suppose it does make it more difficult, but very few things are as black and white as “people only care because they want to play porn games”. There’s usually some nuance in there.
And who knows, this whole situation happened because a tiny group pressured companies into acting a certain way. So it’s not like putting pressure on them has no effect. May as well try.
You could argue that adults should be allowed to commit fake sexual abuse but its still likely not a positive for those who consume it.
Should they be allowed to commit fake physical abuse? There are a lot of “violent” video games out there as well.
People tried to ban video games that contained violence decades ago and were unsucessful. Interesting that banning sexual content is working.
Is it? Looks like it’s getting a lot of pushback
Probably not, there’s a reason the US military has spent money funding call of duty games.
If you think people playing pretend has that strong of an effect on them you might want to avoid the Internet all together. So much stuff on here is significantly worse than Mario jumping on a turtle.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
How about Detroit: Become Human? Because they removed that as well.
Yttra@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m against the censorship, to be clear, but a David Cage game might not be the best example to use in the future lol
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Why? Because you don’t like it?
qaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I heard they also removed other horror games
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
I truly could not care less what they claim their reasoning is. I’ve played the game. I know how it handles things like child abuse.
This is not a game that should even be included in any conversation about censorship. The idea is fucking absurd.
qaz@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’m wondering how long it’s going to take to revert this policy