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Specifically incest, rape, and child abuse-themed games.
by eddythompson80 1y ago
Specifically incest, rape, and child abuse-themed games.
- superkuh 1y agoAh, like a video game version of "Game of Thrones"? None of the payment processors had any issues with taking money for that series. And that was live action.
- eddythompson80 1y agoYep, those games were exactly the same thing as Game of Thrones.
- ggoo 1y agoI mean by the content they were yeah. Precisely the problem with rules declaring what content is and isn’t acceptable.
- eddythompson80 1y agoExactly. By content, here is a book on Amazon[1] where the author openly tells stories of rape and incest and somehow it's all Ok. Pretty much the same as Game of Thrones and those Steam games. [1] https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/0143127748 https://www.amazon.com/Body-Keeps-Score-Healing-Trauma/dp/01...
- ggoo 1y agoSeems like we’re in agreement - I read your prior comment differently
- baobabKoodaa 1y agoYou are not in agreement. The person you are replying to is being sarcastic. They feel that a HBO produced tv show with incest is art that needs to be protected while an indie dev game with incest is trash that needs to be censored.
- mango7283 1y agoThe fact of the matter is you will find more people willing to publicly bat for GOT than you will find people willing to bat for an "indie incest non-con game". And it's not like GOT has not received criticism for its content or that people haven't tried.
- baobabKoodaa 1y agoThe movements here (the pro-censorship movement & the anti-sexuality movement) are mainly driven by religious beliefs, and as such, it comes as no surprise that they do not want to apply censorship in a fair or even logically consistent way; they merely want to ban things they personally do not like.
- mango7283 1y agoAs I pointed out earlier, it's also valid that they are savvy enough to pick their battles and divide and conquer - you can't take down a critical mainstream success like GOT or GTA, but you can go after fringe games with content most people would be uncomfortable publicly defending.
- baobabKoodaa 1y agoSure, I can see that being part of it (I didn't see this implication in your earlier post)
- mango7283 1y agoAh sorry I meant elsewhere in the thread
- choo-t 1y agoThe very same group did try to take down GTA V : https://www.collectiveshout.org/prostitution_survivors_call_on_target_to_withdraw_gta_v_for_extreme_violence_against_women https://www.collectiveshout.org/prostitution_survivors_call_...
- monkeyelite 1y agoGames/hentai about these topics are not illegal, even if they are in bad taste. And I’m willing to bet some content removed does not fall in these categories
- Jolter 1y agoThat’s exactly the point: getting Valve to remove illegal content would not have caused any headlines. These themes go against common moral standards and so Visa et al don’t want to be seen selling them. You can find the list of removed titles if you go looking for it. Feel free to point out which ones you think are collateral damage. I’m not looking at that list with my eyeballs though. I need them for later.
- casey2 1y agoIn the US they are criminally illegal https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1466A https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1466A
- monkeyelite 1y agoYou crossed two categories together, and made a new category I didn’t say: “Depictions of sexual assault of children” Are you claiming that the content removed was encroaching on this law?