Comment on Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoThere’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.
If the outcome is the most important thing than sure, may as well try. Although that will just get some of these horrible games re-listed so again I question the motivation.
The main issue I have is when people claim they are opposed to the idea of tiny groups pressuring companies to change policy, but then argue they should use the exact same tactic. This again seems to betray their stated motivation.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Should they be allowed to commit fake physical abuse? There are a lot of “violent” video games out there as well.
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 8 months ago
People tried to ban video games that contained violence decades ago and were unsucessful. Interesting that banning sexual content is working.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Is it? Looks like it’s getting a lot of pushback
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 8 months ago
I hope it’s successful at changing things.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Probably not, there’s a reason the US military has spent money funding call of duty games.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
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.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Will it change someone individually drastically? Probably not. Does it have an effect on society and how it views military action around the world? Apparently so.