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Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.
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You should work on learning how to handle those feelings. Most people just ignore it when other people do stuff they think is gross if it's not hurting anyone. For example, I think egg salad is pretty gross. I manage this in my day to day life by "not buying egg salad", and if I run into it I usually just "move along quickly", or say "oh, no thank you". I doubt people are as pushy with furry porn as they are with egg salad, unless you and I live in shockingly different worlds.
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Do you have proof of this? Capitalism doesn’t know any sort of morality or ideology other than that which allows it to extract the most value
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> Imagine you can't use visa or mastercard. What other fucking payment card acceptance system are you going to use for payment processing in under 30 seconds? Amex. Discover. Diners Club. Venmo.and will they accept me selling incredibly controversial pervert games that disgust even the most perverse?
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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.
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and will they accept me selling incredibly controversial pervert games that disgust even the most perverse?I don't know. Visa and MasterCard did for 20 years, so maybe. I don't really care either way. I'm not going to judge people who play "Interactive Sex - Daddy Daughter Incest Volume 4" but I'm not going to go to bat for them either. I can think of way better hills to die on.
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I wouldn't really care if Steam decided to crack down on porn games, its their store. Payment processors being the ones to force Valve's hands simply doesn't sit right.
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I don't know. Visa and MasterCard did for 20 years, so maybe. I don't really care either way. I'm not going to judge people who play "Interactive Sex - Daddy Daughter Incest Volume 4" but I'm not going to go to bat for them either. I can think of way better hills to die on.sure, we're both on the same page, but pointing out non-alternative alternatives isn't exactly a contribution to a discussion.
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I'm genuinely confused about what point you are trying to make.The banks have their own "ethical code" or "operating principle"' which invariably are just carbon copies of the board of directors or owners religious disposition. So you get shit where capitalism is enforcing the morals of a deeply depraved peoples onto the entirety of the country and world. I know incest is gross. But it doesn't hurt anyone. And for them to come in and say "spending money on that filthy sin is ILLEGAL!!!" because they control the only methods by which that content can be accessed, is literally corporate fascism. It's "rule by corporation" not cooperation as a democracy should be. The very idea that ANYONE who supports a free state would support those who control the most wealth also controlling ALL OTHER WEALTH ON THE PLANET by virtue of limiting what it may be spent on, is so egregiously, heinously evil that I wish to personally skull fuck anyone who espouses it.
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).Is it just me, or does the first photo seem to read that the payment processor standards and the removal of invest games are unrelated? Like, games removed that violate payments processor standards removed. At the same time, incest games are removed too. With the paragraph break it feels unclear that these incest games are likely in violation of the standards, and instead that they are seperate matters and in fact payments processors may not care about incest games at all.
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).I hope that the EU creates a digital currency system that is universal, and for privacy coins to become common. I don't want to deal with American payment processors, because they want to prevent me from supporting the people who make my life better. Payment should be a dumb pipe, allowing me and you to uphold the social contract.
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Well in germany doing porn zhat implies incest or csam even if the actors are not related or over 18 csn still get you jail time
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Or imagine the worst case. Gabe is the world's greatest prankster. He's a true internet troll for the ages. He's spent decades getting millions and millions of people dependent on his game hosting. He's got hardware. He stands astride the game industry like a colossus. But the key is that Valve is still a private corporation. In theory, Gabe could do whatever he wants with it. Including, finally committing the last stage of his ultimate prank. One day...he just flips the off switch. Steam never enshittifies. It just shuts off forever without warning. And thus, with one stroke, his master chess move concluded (to reasons comprehensible only to Gabe), he just shuts it off and walks away. His last words in public are, "it turns out, I was the greatest gamer of all the whole time..."
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On what grounds would doing so operationally impair the platform? Is it illegal? Does it prevent them from servicing other businesses in a timely fashion? Does it cost more money in a way that can't be reflected in the service fee structure?
Explain to me what reason they would have for objecting that isn't just a different way of phrasing "morality judgment" or "image management".
Do you also think that a shipping company should be able to refuse to ship products from businesses they don't approve of, even if it's functionally identical to something else they would ship?
What about either of those companies refusing service to someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity?
People used to say it's bad business to service gays, blacks, Jews, Catholics, Hispanics and the Irish. At some point we decided that businesses need to shut the fuck up and just do business without judging, or else their service has no place in society.
The free market that businesses love so much exists entirely through the grace and in the service of society at large. If they fail to at least not harm society, why should society extend that courtesy to them?> shipping company should be able to refuse to ship products from businesses they don’t approve of Sure, I don't have a problem with that. I would use another shipping company. > What about either of those companies refusing service to someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity? That is not remotely the same thing and a gross false equivalence. We're talking about platforming incest hentai games and you're making a comparison to serving Black and queer people. I don't think we're going to see eye to eye on this, have a good one. -
First they came for the incestuous porn Then they came for the furries Then they came for games with violence Then...
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> Why shouldn’t the payment processors get a say in the payments they process? Illegal or not, why should they be forced to process payments that facilitate things against their beliefs? Because they hold an effective monopoly over the payment process.But they don't hold a monopoly. And at least for now, they are private businesses. If your argument is that they should be nationalized, that's a different conversation and I think we'd agree on more.
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Is it just me, or does the first photo seem to read that the payment processor standards and the removal of invest games are unrelated? Like, games removed that violate payments processor standards removed. At the same time, incest games are removed too. With the paragraph break it feels unclear that these incest games are likely in violation of the standards, and instead that they are seperate matters and in fact payments processors may not care about incest games at all.
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CSAM sure, but is incest porn really mentioned in the StGB? There's 173 StGB, but that is for the actual act and not pretending.
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).I’m equally cautious and curious… Redemption of Li Wei…?
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I hope that the EU creates a digital currency system that is universal, and for privacy coins to become common. I don't want to deal with American payment processors, because they want to prevent me from supporting the people who make my life better. Payment should be a dumb pipe, allowing me and you to uphold the social contract.Ability to pay for anything legal implies accountability. I doubt payment processors are creating these rules because they're afraid of Jesus. They just did the math and there's probably a ton of disputes/chargebacks on certain content. Should two consenting adults be able to pay each other for whatever the fuck - absolutely. But dumb pipe only sounds really good until you get scammed.
