the slippery slope starts somewhere.
You know slippery slope is a fallacy right? The “slippery slope” can also stop anywhere.
Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 12 hours agoThe only reason someone wouldn’t want to sell something is because of pressure from others - you boil it down enough and the logic is “I don’t want to sell this because others will judge me”, which stems directly from others judgement, being my entire point.
You can claim “Valve doesn’t want to sell it for moral reasons”, but they’re not a moral body, they’re a corporation - their only job is to earn money.
The more people feel they can dictate what a retailer sells, the worse it gets for all of us, and retailers choosing to drop things rather than “roc k the boat” is a problem.
Sure, this is a pretty repugnant case, but the slippery slope starts somewhere.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 12 hours ago
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
I regret my short hand of “slippery slope” but it’s not a coincidence that less than 6 months ago payment processors used their influence to get a game pulled from steam and now all of a sudden steam is self censoring based on content.
Whatever the non-fallacious version of “there’s an escalating pattern here” is what’s happening.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 11 hours ago
Do the other stores hosting the game have the same payment processors?
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Let’s finish our conversation about steam before we set up a goal post move.
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
People are free to pressure retailers on what to sell and what not too. Saying they can’t would be far worse. And the retailer is doing the job of making money… by following the 2ishes of the populace. This is the free market capitalist society we live in. Completly sucks, but it is consistent.