Its more perverted to want to control what other people are jacking to than it is to jack it to porn games. Keep your perversions to yourselves weirdos.
Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there
Submitted 8 months ago by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
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lightnsfw@reddthat.com 8 months ago
REDACTED@infosec.pub 8 months ago
This is the exact thing I’ve always thought about homophobes. It’s pretty gay to get obsessed about what other men do with their dicks.
omniman@piefed.zip 8 months ago
fucking fuck fuck fuckers , if they wanted to ban then they should have contacted to steme why payment providers bruh
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Because they want to apply their rules to everyone, it’s the entire point for religious assholes
Fuck all religions
Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Fuck All Religions 😍
I’ll join that cult!
crusa187@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Yeah, rules for thee not for me. Bunch of dildos.
Rooty@lemmy.world 8 months ago
“Pro life feminist”
A christian conservative group in drag,nothing to see here.
buttnugget@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yep. They drive all the decent people out of anti porn feminist spaces, like the porn is misogyny subreddit. They need to be stopped.
MadnessForTsar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Does that group also the same one who defending the release of “cuties” before?
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 8 months ago
That is so dumb. How would such a small group have that much pull? It seems like gooners would vastly outnumber them.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 8 months ago
In the 90s, in my country, a single person made a webpage stating that Microsoft minesweeper promotes war and violence, so since windows 95 if the Windows locale is set to my language, minesweeper becomes “flower field” and you have to find flowers instead of mines
SonOfAntenora@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It was due to the actual active minefields in certain region of the EU. But i was always so confused by that name. ‘Prato fiorito’ does it mean that if I step on the flowers i explode? This is what i thought back than.
BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 8 months ago
These people are loud, most gooners don’t want to be loud about it
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Never on the bus, no.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m sick of religious sex freaks forcing others to adhere to their puritan fetishes
We need to ban organized religion
stepan@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Or just live and let live…
Jarix@lemmy.world 8 months ago
And trickle down some economy while we are at it
JigglySackles@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We’ve tried that one.
drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 8 months ago
if that was an option we would not have to have this discussion.
freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A tolerant society can not tolerate intolerance. One side will attempt to “just live”, but the intolerant side is incapable of “letting live”, and they will not stop until they replace tolerance with their system of hate.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Live and let live is pretty much the antithesis of organised religion
Honytawk@feddit.nl 8 months ago
Why should we? They don’t let us live.
MrNobody@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Sure, but since orgaanised religions can’t help to force others to live by their standards, they need to get out of the way. I’m fine with people needing a comfort measure, even if its in the form of an invisibile friend. Whatever helps people sleep at night. However, when they try to force their ideals down everybody elses throat thats a big no.
So, since they can’t ‘live and let live’ they need to go the way of the dodo, fuck off, and leave the rest of society alone.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Why did we get refugees from r/atheism? rolls eyes
Honytawk@feddit.nl 8 months ago
The majority of the secular world are atheists. Don’t pretend like it is some small subsection just because you live in a bubble of whatever religion you were born into.
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Ew, when did we get cringy appeals to the audience talking past the original poster in comments in an ineffectual attempt to throw shade?
vane@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can we call them ?
Grannies gang who not bang.
Zink@programming.dev 8 months ago
OK now I am not one to lob accusations without evidence, but for any of you kind government agents or AIs reading this, let’s say from anywhere within the Five Eyes since we’re talking about Australia:
We have another fanatical religious conservative organization here that is publicly labeling opposition groups pedos. You know how this has trended in the past. Keep an eye on these people.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We have another fanatical religious conservative organization here that is publicly labeling opposition groups pedos.
projection. they want a monopoly on skeezing on the kiddos.
for some reason people will bend themselves into pretzels to give religious people a pass on buggery. here in washington state, we passed a law mandating the reporting of abused children. conservatives and religious types want to keep these children in their abuse.
pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
some people on lemmy just license their comments as anti-ai license
ICastFist@programming.dev 8 months ago
Which anyone with half a brain expects to be promptly ignored by web crawlers
DNS@discuss.online 8 months ago
McCarthyism back on the menu, heterosexual boys!
eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Don’t be silly. Government surveillance isn’t for the protection of the people, it’s for the protection of the government.
Has the NSA ever caught a terrorist with their massively invasive privacy violating programs, spending the money on that instead of making people better to not become terrorists? Ask the NSA, they’ll tell you they haven’t stopped a single one.
Government surveillance is in service to these people, why else would they care about the privacy and consent of adults in their free time?
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Really goes to show people. It doesn’t matter the religion. They all are bullshit machines for people to act superior than others. Fuck these twat waffles.
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Ah yes, now anyone who enjoys wanking themselves off in private, is also a Pedo, because they ran out of mean words.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s been wild watching that word lose every last bit of meaning over the past few years
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Almost like it’s the goal. It’s not, they’re just hacky idiots, but it’s almost like that…
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Not just any pedo, but a brain-rotted pedo.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
That’s presidential material !
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Later I need to make a meme where the soldier takes the hits for the child, the child being Visa/Mastercard
chrischryse@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The same group who complained Detroit Become Human is bad for glorifying child abuse and women abuse. Yet supported Cuties…
BleatingZombie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s because they want real child abuse. Not that fake stuff
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Bro, have you seen e621 lately? That place needs quite a lot of pruning. I don’t know what the admins are doing, it went too far in the other direction!
CMonster@discuss.online 8 months ago
Honestly, my steam algorithm started showing me alot of that garbage out of nowhere about a year ago and I had to keep telling it to stop. Like to each their own but some of that shit was pretty gross. I’m not complaining it;s gone.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Groups like this never say “Mission Accomplished” and go home, they will escalate until you are sent to jail for playing Mortal Kombat or GTA
cosmo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
There’s a toggle for the store that hides porn games. It’s not visible unless you yourself actively click on it saying you want to see them. If you see garbage it’s on you.
CMonster@discuss.online 8 months ago
I’ve learned about the toggle since then. I know for a fact I didn’t click on any gooner-bait though lol
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That second part is kinda annoying though. It doesn’t know the difference between a view because of curiosity and one because of actual interest.
It’s what ruined the YouTube suggestions for me. I liked being able to do completely unrelated and random dives. Now it’s just a collection of videos related to previous ones I’ve watched, even when I’m not logged in and have viewing history turned off. If I want to watch another chess video, I know how to use the search function. That’s how I found them the first time.
Though steam does also have a “stop showing me games like this” where it gives options about what you mean by “this”.
deathbird@mander.xyz 8 months ago
I truly don’t understand how Visa/MasterCard/etc can be pressured. They are basically infrastructure.
What’s someone going to do, stop using credit cards if they don’t stop a store that person even patronize from selling morally hazardous goods?
I don’t get how these campaigns are even effective.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 8 months ago
The thing is they are American corporations who care to much about their public image. I would be highly suprised if they national payment platforms would also accept this. (ideal/bankcontant/wero/etc)
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Probably just worried Trump will over regulate them if they don’t fall in line with the Christian Radicals.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Cryptocurrency is the solution here, and unfortunately that’s an unpopular take here.
emmy67@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Not when exchanges still govern taking money out. They are businesses like everything else and will be just as risk averse
RedFrank24@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s because 90% of cryptocurrency marketing consists of “THINK OF THE GAAAAAAINS YOU CAN MAKE!” instead of “You can use this to buy things without government censorship”.
The entire crypto industry has based itself around being a speculative asset, not a currency.
MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 8 months ago
They pressure payment processors through reputation damage and regulatory threats - these companies are terrified of being associated with anything that could trigger banking regulations or get them labeled as “enabling” problematic content in the media, its purely a risk management desicion for them.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Debit Cards, too.
plyth@feddit.org 8 months ago
Supposedly there was a ruling in California that made them responsible.
deathbird@mander.xyz 8 months ago
Do you have any info or links about that?
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are we wagering this absurdity is built on projection?
cause I’m wagering this absurdity is built on them projecting.
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Definitely. Always is. And I do mean always.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It always is. These are the type of folks who have that feeling of shame wash over after they bust a nut to something they “despise.”
That literally all these types of groups are. They want us to feel the same shame, too. I wish folks could just keep their shit to themselves. Have rules for your own home, sure, but eat shit and rot if you think you should be able to tell me how I should live my life.
unphazed@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I draw the line at abuse, but yeah, otherwise agree.
ech@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Anyone have a guess as to why these companies don’t just cut off the country being used to spearhead these attempts? Like, half the popular games are blocked already. And setting this precedent will likely lead to further fuckery in the future. Is Australlia really that profitable that it’s worth the current and future hassle?
abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
Aren’t these the same people with links to Purity Ring ceremonies?
Etterra@discuss.online 8 months ago
Sounds like they need a good skull fucking.
CleoCommunist@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
Hello yeah
Zozano@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Collective Shout claim it’s about harm reduction, but then push an agenda that functionally amounts to moral panic. Their approach is identical in logic to the “GTA causes school shootings” hysteria: loud, pearl-clutching, and utterly unmoored from data.
If Collective Shout want to argue these games cause harm, then show us the harm. Not correlation. Not outrage. Not hypothetical downstream consequences. Show causation. Peer-reviewed. Reproducible.
Otherwise, they’re just moralizing bullies using the banking system as a cudgel.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
They are religious nutjobs, they don’t care about causation.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I thought they were a feminist group
Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I love them
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The best part is that for the article Valve supplied a picture of Blue Scout standing speechless in front of pornographic pictures of his mom, as the punch line of the best “your mom” joke to ever exist.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Hold up, all this shit because of an extremist group, *in Australia, where half the M games on the market already can’t be sold, is driving global payment processor behavior?!?
Steve@startrek.website 8 months ago
PrOjEcTiOn
dan@upvote.au 8 months ago
There’s a few groups like this in Australia, unfortunately.
Australia didn’t even have an R18+ rating for games until 2013 (R18+ is similar to AO or NC-17 in the USA). Before then, all games with a higher rating than MA15+ were illegal in Australia. Many games had an Australia-specific version with gore reduced, some things edited out, etc. to reduce the rating. The original release of GTA4 in Australia was heavily censored.
AlphaOmega@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Seems like a good time to get a new CC processor.
InfiniteHench@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I like how the language is ‘claims responsibility.’ You know. Like terrorist groups do after an attack
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s totally not a thing TERFs would say.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Anyone want to argue why porn video games are a benefit for society, or even a single persons health?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s not about porn games. It’s about allowing third-party private interests to engage in censorship.
If Valve were to ban porn games from being sold on Steam because they find them distasteful, I wouldn’t have a problem with this. But it wasn’t Valve’s decision. It was the payment processors who did it on behalf of interests that are apparently allowed to determine what is permissible on other people’s platforms.
That’s not okay.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
So this is basically the same as the argument that drugs shouldnt be illegal? Is this just purely based on freedom?
Jhex@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I couldn’t care less… I care about what will be the next thing someone unaffected by me consuming it, would ban it and deprive me of it
Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 months ago
I would say they aren’t as bad as alcohol and gambling, which are pervasive…some of them are just…art…some aren’t :D I could ask you the same about lots of other things, from music to literature. I just don’t like book burning. If someone put their effort into creating something that they thought was worth creating, why is it up to anyone to ban it for any adult?
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
If someone wants it then they should be allowed it right? Great moral system you have there. Call it the “why not?” gospel.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
No, but you might want to take a step back from that ledge advice a steep much huddy hill.
Frankly I think a lot of modern babes are fucked up in their portrayal of the human body, and those relationship sim dress up games are kinda gross.
But I don’t think this should be too to credit card companies to unilaterally decide.