Anyone know if this is true or not?
Not entirely surprising if true.
Project 2025 goal is to spread their backwards ideology across the globe. They want to see the world burn.
Submitted 1 day ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.thegamer.com/steams-adult-content-ban-has-been-plotted-for-a-year/
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TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
They think being cruel to minorities and women will make their lives better. Cause they’re idiots. Or naive. Or hateful. Probably all of those, but that’s speculation.
reksas@sopuli.xyz 4 hours ago
they dont want to make anyones lives better except their own. Pieces of shit like those have been bitter about any improvement to womens rights because they had it good being able to abuse women and want it back. Also minorities are good scapegoat for any problems they cause, so their rights have to go too or the whole thing collapses eventually as people might catch on who is really to blame.
Katana314@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I mean, I kind of guessed this way back when Collective Shout pushed their action.
I actually had a comment removed here on Lemmy when I brought up how this was “US politics/elections affecting your life as gamers”, because the mods insisted it was purely an Australian action, and my comment was off-topic. But we live in a global online world. There’s no way that US politics wouldn’t have a huge effect on this type of censorship.
ameancow@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
There’s no way that US politics wouldn’t have a huge effect on this type of censorship.
I’ve been called a fearmonger also for trying to tell apathetic gamers who “hate politics” that if they don’t get involved they’re going to start losing their own goddamn games.
I have linked the “Conservapedia” articles on video games all over reddit until they banned me. I have tried to tell people that voting for Trump or supporting his ideals even distantly isn’t going to “take the woke out of your games” that it will actually crush your gaming entirely, because… and I can’t stress this enough, Conservatives HATE GAMING. Not the online chuds and 4channers who hate women, they’re barely even conservatives… they’re fodder for the online fights. But the old-guard and middle-class conservatives who get marching orders from churches and grifters, the ones who have all the actual money on the right. They want to see an end to “distractions” and fiction and fantasy and everything that isn’t some kind of sanitized, un-nuanced devotion to Dear Leader and his United States of White Jesus.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Conservatives HATE GAMING. Not the online chuds and 4channers who hate women, they’re barely even conservatives…
They sure sound like conservatives to me.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
It is as it always was: Even if you have no interest in politics, the politics are interested in you.
Ordinary people should adopt politics as a hobby, if only to have agency about which type of politics thrives or dies. I would much prefer sex-positive media to proliferate over sex negative, because the latter will take away my hentai games and manga. Furries, queers, and genuine perverts, all of them should have a shared interest of putting conservative values into a pine box, with a bit of stake and garlic.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 4 hours ago
Furries, queers, and genuine perverts, all of them should have a shared interest of putting conservative values into a pine box, with a bit of stake and garlic.
And facing towards the earth with their head decapitated and placed between their legs. Kudos in advance if you know what that means.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
No matter how you measure it, global sexually repressive puritanism always traces back to the US.
bob_lemon@feddit.org 9 hours ago
There are a lot of people that are capable of suppressing women without the US just fine. Just have q quick look at the Arabic peninsula, or the Taliban.
Tryenjer@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The US is still the leader of the West, whatever its policies are, they will greatly affect the people in these countries.
leftytighty@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
The US isn’t a leader in anything they are imperialist and they meddle. It’s not leadership it’s influence. They’ve consolidated political, economic, and military power and they use all of those to varying degrees to meddle in everyone’s affairs
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 1 day ago
these people have been planning on this for lot longer than a year. christians have been trying to ban video games for decades. the only reason this group hasn't come after more games is because they know they don't yet have enough politicians behind them to manage it.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
Christians are evil
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 21 hours ago
I don’t want to come off as pedantic, but what we’re dealing with in the US is a very strange and successful breed of “Christian Nationalism.”
Essentially, it’s a belief that ultra-conservative Christianity is the only legitimate religion and that the USA is a Christian nation.
It probably comes as no surprise that these people heavily influenced the Confederacy, is strongly white-supremecist, anti-vice, etc, and has been an anathema in this country since before the states actually formed.
Christians themselves are… A problem, but not the problem. It’s these Christian nationalists. They’re loud. They want you to think all Christians believe what they do too. They also tend to drown out opposing Christian speakers by being louder than them too.
It’s one of the reasons why MLK Jr was hated so much by Hoover, by the south, etc. He was a Christian pastor, and stood against everything they did.
It’s important that we don’t group Christians in with Christian Nationalists. It’s very difficult but necessary.
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 hour ago
There’s a distinctive difference between american evangelists and other christian groups, for starters that the evangelists have been integrated in the state-religion the USA has been running at least since the cold war., and they are actively utilized by the Republicans. This also means that those evangelists believe that in the US white nationalists should be in power.
Please note that the “christian” part in this has gone pretty far from any christian roots - it’s for the most part just utilized to identify the in-group and to radicalize members. The quip “Y’all qaeda” comes pretty close to the truth - they are just as radical and socially regressive as any other islamic sect that would use terror to achieve their goals.
fuckgod@feddit.online 22 hours ago
Mostly because of all the stupid.
Zorque@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Painting with such a broad brush is how these people got to where they are now, don’t make the same mistakes they did.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Its Republicans. Don’t blame the religion. Republicans want fascism and they want to control everyone’s thoughts and behaviors because they’re wired to be subservient to authoritarians. They hate that so many of us have a mind of our own.
Zeusz13@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
The bullshit going on in the USA under the christian name is short sighted, stupid and lacks empathy. Christianity isn’t USA fundamentalism tho.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It will never happen on a large scale. Not as long as there is this much money to be made. I have no doubts these freaks will keep trying and make our lives harder, though.
False@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s been interesting to see this agenda switch from D to R over the least 30 years in the US.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
christians have been…
A few closeted and bitter homosexuals in denial have been…
JonsJava@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
This comment was reported as homophobic.
I believe the meaning of the comment to be
Republicans projecting - again
Leaving it up for @Korkki@lemmy.ml to clarify.
EldenLord@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Calling it now: What we currently know as “Project 2025” will reveal itself to be the largest conspiracy of this millenium. The push for internet ID verification “to protect the kids” in UK, US, Canada, EU, Australia is 100% a collective effort. Fuck this timeline, we will not comply!
ameancow@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
A conspiracy implies they made an attempt to hide it.
I’ve been showing people this shit on social media and reddit for years now and nobody cared. I was called a fearmonger and hyped up “shrill” leftist, stirring up controversy over unrealistic possibilities, etc. etc.
Fuck all ya’ll, I know some of you are out there reading all this, some of the same head-buried-in-the-sand lazy fuckers who tried to dismiss real warnings about real things because you didn’t want to be bothered to get involved or change your vote.
StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Right. There biggest attempts at hiding it was saying “nu-uh” even as we Saifd they were planning/doing it.
ronigami@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
More than likely it’s even more petty than that: they just didn’t want to admit to being wrong.
pedz@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
The English speaking world should be isolated. Rupert Murdoch made it sick.
jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
No he didn’t, he doesn’t have that kind of power. Not even close.
A bunch of idiots decided to listen to lies.
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I know this is not going to be well received here, but we as a society do need to do something to prevent children from being able to access pornography. We are just now getting research showing the detrimental effects of social media and internet pornography on developing children’s brains. There hasn’t been concrete evidence until recently, and now we know. Things do have to change.
However, this needs to be done with as little information as possible collected and distributed. Zero-knowledge proofs should be used to establish that a person is above a certain age without telling the site what their age actually is. This can be done, however I do imagine they are going to skip past all of that and just go to collecting all the information possible.
PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 8 hours ago
No one is saying that kids should be able to access pornography. People are saying that it shouldn’t be the states job to raise your children for you.
Effectively blocking pornography for everyone in the country unless you dox yourself to shady websites is not the answer. The answer is developing the tools and simplifying processes required to stop children accessing these things on the device and local network level and putting those tools in the hands of parents.
The Great Firewall of Britain is a frankly stupid concept.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s your job to keep your kid from cruising porn on the devices you own
socsa@piefed.social 2 hours ago
we as a society do need to do something to prevent children from being able to access pornography
Yes, it's called "parenting"
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
Fuck that. I was raised in a rural area. My only potential sex partners for my first 20 years of life was my family. Without being able to use dial-up to access hentai manga and VNs, my sexuality would have completely withered on the vine. Many of my years of youth were sexless, and by the time I had some agency, my body wasn’t up to the task of enjoying sex for more than several minutes at a time.
Puritans have no place in dictating who should have porn, because they cannot account for the circumstances or nature of a person’s sexual existence. People should be allowed to explore and enjoy sex, and if they don’t like it, then they don’t have to infringe on other people’s ability to partake.
Porn should be normalized.
veebee@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
Freedoms slowly get taken away.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Not surprised. stripe, PayPal, visa and Mastercard wouldn’t just give up to millions of dollars in fees just because a small Australian group asked for it
Bazoogle@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
They said please though
NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
They’ve been playing the very long game of trying to control human behavior for centuries, not just decades. The one thing to note is that the United States began as a bunch of colonies run by ministers, and the fundies want to go back to that theocratic form of rule. That by the 19th century the temperance movement came from the dozens of Christian subsects. Yeah, they also extended it to anything that did not define as “Christian” behavior, including choice of ideologies (socialism = bad), gender (male or female = good), source of knowledge (Bible > science), beliefs (they have veiled Islamophobia), and even eating and sexual habits.
Now – based on their basic blueprint – they want to artificially induce the Second Coming by trying to get their fucking project off the ground, and impose control on everyone else.
Genius@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
Nikls94@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
First paragraph is about what I found out myself. Might add to that that they are the ones responsible for the American mindset of sex and nipples.
And yes, Jesus definitely looked like the one who would be selected for a “random intensive control not based on individual suspicion” at the airport
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Aedis@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
They? For centuries? Who is “they” that has been this organized for “centuries”? The fucking illuminati? The masonic order?
Maybe you’re exaggerating a bit?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Conservatives…? How is that not obvious? It’s clearly true.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
“they” in this sense is everyone who has historically tried to control and repress others to their own benefit.
Traditionally that’s the religious. But it’s also the capitalists. And now they seem to be working together.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
Christianity.
pathos@lemmy.ml 19 hours ago
Going to need done links for you claims chief
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Most of that comment is basic American history chief
absentbird@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Google it boss
underline960@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
So how does this tie into what’s happening now? Part of Vought and Project 2025’s plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). This law currently protects platform holders, providing immunity for any content uploaded to said platform that third-party users created.
By removing Section 230, platform holders, like Steam, would be liable for any “illegal” content uploaded to the platform, as opposed to those creating and uploading said content. If Steam were found guilty of hosting this content, the company could be hit with huge fines. Therefore, Steam, Itch, and many other platforms would likely place a blanket ban on any adult content, mitigating any risk of fines or other legal action. This, as pointed out on Reddit, would affect all forms of user-generated content, including fan art, mods, and videos, not just games themselves.
Seems like a deceptive headline.
The real takeaway is: Project 2025 guy also wants to do the platform-level censorship thing, but by removing legal protections (Section 230) instead of using payment processors.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 1 day ago
Yeah I started to read comments on other sites and theres a LOT of speculation on this. But the actual article is pretty small. Thanks for breaking it down even further.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Why did you write the headline in big bold letters that looks like you state something as fact, then in small print at the bottom ask if it’s true?
You are the one that said it was true and you didn’t know?
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 22 hours ago
Hear me out: what if repealing section 230 would end up killing our social media monoculture, since it would be impossible for these platforms to operate. Instead, what if people had to host their content themselves, you know, like we did back in the day, when the Internet was fun.
ronigami@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Who’s going to host a place where you could be sued millions of dollars because someone posted libel on there? Not your next door neighbor.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
I don’t know when you’re talking about, but it probably wasn’t self hosting, unless you’re talking about like original internet stuff. GeoCities, for example, was not self-hosting. It was hosting your content on their platform.
4am@lemmy.zip 20 hours ago
LLMs would be liable for every hallucination.
But how do you enforce it? When the internet crashes out into millions of websites again? When the people who made it happen are the people bad ones and they only go after messaging they don’t like?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
The wild runaway success of Gmail proves that federation as a concept is currently not understood by the masses. I have lots of faith but little hope that more learning will be done on a large scale.
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
a lot of people knew this already, yes
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 23 hours ago
Anthony Comstock.
J. Edgar Hoover.
Joseph McCarthy.
Roy Cohn.
Donald Trump.
Willful traitors all. Have it writ upon thy meager graves, “destroyed the union just so people wouldn’t masturbate.”
There’s more, I know. But those fellas are all linked.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Did you read all 900 pages? I sure skimmed but didn’t read it fully. Its entirely possible.
More importantly, if we dont act collectively all over the globe to end this tide of fascism only more sensorship will come.
This is not an end but a beginning.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Oh hey. GamerGate was used by Christian fundamentalists to censor video games. How interesting. I thought they cared about Freeze Peach?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Gamergate was always a right-wing radicalization tool, and those who did not dismiss the chatlogs of /pol/ users collected by Zoey Quinn as fakes, knew it since day one (I wonder if “Sarah K.” might be one of those VTubers beloved by the far-right), and Steve Bannon wasn’t the first one to realize potential in radicalizing gamers, but a crappy Hungarian gamedev later turned into blogger Tamás “Tomcat” Polgár.
Im28xwa@lemdro.id 8 hours ago
I’m all in for banning pornographic content but if their intentions is anything else than that then I am all against it.
FYI: I have no idea what the hell is going on, I don’t follow the news, I just randomly opened lemmy then stumbled upon this post, I didn’t read the whole article, just a paragraph or 2.
Furbag@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’m all in for banning pornographic content
Fuck off. Just don’t consume it, idiot.
If you are worried about your kids getting exposed to it, be a better parent.
leftytighty@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
Very shocking to me that a conservative would barge in with a strong conservative opinion but not know what’s going on and having barely tried to find out.
ameancow@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I’m all in for banning pornographic content
The issue isn’t so much that they’re banning pornographic content, it’s the fact that there is no possible definition of “pornographic” that people can agree on, and every attempt at trying to do this in the past has always been simply an attempt by lawmakers to legislate what you can and can’t enjoy - IE: state approved media that doesn’t go against power. We had many court cases about this in the US, they always have ended siding against those trying to censor what people can and can’t look at.
“Porn” is like physics. You can call almost anything porn from certain vantage points, so an open-ended policy that allows those in control to decide what’s porn or not allows them to control what you enjoy in a very real way.
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
it’s not about porn, it’s about setting a precedent to ban any undesirable content, like trans healthcare resources, sources that show our unsavory history as a society, and literally anything they could want.
Also, criminalizing porn just makes people go to the black market for that sort of thing.
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 23 hours ago
Funny how all the Yanks specifically blaming this on Australia are quiet now.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Thank god they can’t do shit to TPB and its ilk since those are already illegal anyway.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
I am not surprised in the slightest bit
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Can anyone ELI5 this issue for me? At first i thought they were going after those weird upskirt and borderline anime cp games. Are they going after every 18+ game now?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
baronvonj@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Are they going after every 18+ game now?
No. They’re going after all porn.
Alloi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
called it.
Ashiggan@eviltoast.org 22 hours ago
I’m not even slightly surprised
mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online 22 hours ago
Neigsendoig and I are not really surprised by this. We had an inkling this was part of Project 2025. In particular, they just wanted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act removed, though they were already censoring using foreign censorship partners even before P2025.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Correlation is not causation.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I don’t understand the hate, so I’ll try explaining myself and either redeem myself or dig myself deeper.
Religious zealots have been trying to ban explicit material since forever.
Saying Project 2025 caused the Steam ban is like saying Tipper Gore caused Project 2025.
CoffeeJunkie@lemmy.cafe 2 hours ago
Your title is misleading & false. The article is technically correct, but clunky.
Consider the title, Steam’s Content Removal Could Be A Wider Consequence Of Project 2025. The article misspells Russell’s name frequently. “Part of Vought and Project 2025’s plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA)”. So the Steam content removal…is a consequence. Who is dishing out the consequences?
Louis Rossmann will tell you, it’s Collective Shout. Collective Shout has no relation to Russell Vought…or even America. It’s a ragtag group of 1400 Australian fuckheads that complained to Mastercard, Visa who then put pressure on Steam. And yes. This was enabled thanks to Russell Vought & removal of Section 230 of the CDA.
Russell Vought isn’t a good guy by any means, but this specifically was done by Collective Shout’s 1400 Aussies bitching to American credit card companies & American businesses, threatening them & trying to dictate what they can sell to Americans. It’s…truly infuriating. I don’t go to their mom’s place of work & smack the dick out of her mouth, I don’t write them emails & tell them how to run Australia. So kindly return the favor, don’t fuck with the US. Like what the hell.