It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices
It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices
The most right wing demographic losing their treats due to their own bigotry is kind of a funny prospect. This is definitely a “let them fight” scenario
No it isn’t. These are the first steps towards declaring queer existence to be pornographic, and then banning queer content from every platform entirely. I’m sorry if this comes off as harsh, but I am so fucking tired of seeing this take from people who should know better. Please think a few more steps ahead as to what this actually means and what their real goals are. Reactionaries consistently wield payment processors like a club to deplatform anything they don’t like. They’ve been doing this for basically decades at this point. To see hexbears going “haha silly gamers losing their titty slop games” without a single thought as to why this is happening or considering that this may just be the opening moves towards a larger goal, has been fucking maddening.
Editing to add some context: The Christofascists behind this have always seemed queer existence to be inherently sexual. Just take a look at their rhetoric surrounding the litany of book bans that have happened throughout US schools. This is just another prong in their “”“save the children”“” (read: erase queer people from public existence) crusade.
Also, in a lot of ways, the war on porn is even worse than the war on drugs, since drugs have an actual medical definition, whereas no one can agree on what porn is. The most famous definition is “you know it when you see it”.
every Sears catalog with underwear models is porn
I mean, this affects queer people too. Like, our existence is deemed sexual and adult… and soon illegal too it feels like.
no it isn’t. we need some kind of big post disabusing people of this vulgar and poorly thought out take
I’m not really equipped to write one about this issue wrt video games but I might do so regarding what I see as parallel patterns, i.e. sex negativity (in media) and disdain for atheism.
some of y’all don’t remember the Bush era and it shows.
I would love to learn tbh. I just figured that the right wingers going after gaming would mainly affect gamers, who are the just right wing losers
I have to wonder what you even think video games are with this kind of take.
Lmao. Thank you for your input 👏
there are people who are gamers in that they occasionally enjoy a video game, and then there people who identify as gamers
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There is nothing wrong with pornographic video games as a concept and everyone watches porn, not only right wingers. This is censorship by one of the most detestable abrahamic offshoots, western bourgeois christianity, because they are fucked up deluded nutcases who worship the Demiurge and want everyone to suffer, pushing greater bourgeois censorship and state surveillance as a preventative measure for any left populist action (steam censorship is part of a larger plan to clamp down on the internet more being carried out across all western governments).
Moralist nonsense
Imagine finding censorship by anglo cristofashists(on a global scale no less) good, cause the thing they are banning is something you personally don’t like.
Oh I don’t think it’s good. But gamers are going to be eating shit. And that’s still funny
i too enjoy celebrating censorship campaigns driven by theocratic fascists because of the potential to make my perceived enemies in the culture wars sad. surely this won’t be directed towards left-wing causes
How long do you think it will take for pro Palestine content online to be flagged as adult and thus censored? It’s not a matter of if but when
They won’t fight because major studios would be affected last and only after a couple of rounds of racket. Games with sexual content were easy targets and those you can hardly milk. Those already problematic like Activision with CoD, well-beloved by the type of gamers you probably dislike most, would happily do an LLM Donald cameo if it means funding or easing taxes.