Link post about this thing an hour earlier - 10 upvotes. Picture with the same news one hour later - 10x more. Average Lemmy user is no longer distinguishable from a Reddit user

Consenting adults doing something in private triggers your harm alarm?

The payments can become a legal liability for the processors. I believe there are federal laws that have penalties for anyone who facilitates transactions for certain prohibited goods or services. It's the same reason cannabis shops have such a hard time getting payment and banking services. The payment processors have very little incentive to take risks here. As others have noted, there isn't much competition pressure.

Lol, you get to decide what is nature, and what is decision? That's some impressive responsibility you were given, friend-o. Did your deity of choice sign your license to judge on the origins of sexual nature themselves, or did they have their secretarial demigod sign for them?

What are complaining about here exactly?

Y’all care about kinky games on steam? Isn’t that what’s itch.io for? Honest question. I never bought something fucky on steam.

If it's fiction, who fucking cares?

 ::: spoiler Transcript nickyflowers: It would be cool if websites let you be an adult on them. The advertisers and payment processors need everything to be Family Friendly though their definitions of family and friendly are fucked. But since they're in charge of the Internet now, no one is allowed to be an adult. TikTokers say things like "unalive" and "seggs" because they know death and sex are too adult for online. Online is for idiot babies only now because they're easier to market to. nickyflowers: Oh I'm sorry you're a *trans* adult? Super ban. You are super banned for life. You have upset Visa's feelings. Mastercard is throwing up in the corner. How could you *do* this to Google Ads? :::

I’m complaining about the _state of things_.

Only a matter of time before the same thing happens to itch.io

It's been like this for a while in the porn industry. In an interview a while back, Bree Mills says she gets more limited by payment processors than the government (though that might be switching). Ever wonder why every faux-incest video goes out of the way to say everyone is a step family? Step father, step daughter, step mother, step brother, all somehow living in the same house, over 18, and no blood relation? The first amendment protects them from the US government, so that's not why. Credit card companies are why. The old Taboo series was distributed differently back in the day. Can't make that anymore. This also applies to some of the more extreme BDSM stuff, like blood play or scat. Won't find them on kink.com.

So? It's a game with a representation of something that can't even happen. It doesn't even get to the point where you could have a discussion about simulation creating a demand for real that some things have because it's not even remotely realistic. It's not my cup of tea, but that just means I don't look at it. It's because you think it's icky and you don't know how to handle those feelings, isn't it?

When did you decide your sexuality? Did you decide what sex you're attracted to? No you didn't. If that where the case, anyone could change at any time they wanted. Ask Turing how that went for him. Or any other homosexual through the ages.

I find the fact that people want to fuck animals pretty nasty, yes.

Not really. In the US, the first amendment protects a lot. Just like with YouTube censorship, capitalism has created a more restrictive regime through financial pressure than the government does. This has affected the porn industry, as well (see another comment in this subthread on that).

I 100% agreed. BUt maybe some people thought it sounded like a good idea.

I'm sure the young escorts in Cancun are unaffected by this.

in some previous times something like this happened (I forgot specifically which), visa/mastercard would deny all payments with a platform until whatever offended them was removed (don't know if they only threatened that or actually followed through)

Because I'm not a right-libertarian who ignores how corporations setup coercive structures all their own in a perversion of free association.

They shouldn’t be allowed to do that. They should be required to process any legal payment. Even the icky ones.