Official statement on Steam being pressured to remove offensive content

[Rand]

This is actually heating up behind the scenes.
Multiple governments are now looking into this ******** from the shadowy finance people that aren't customer facing businesses.

But those who say that mastercard/visa are using the "acquiring banks" as an accountability dodge are also correct.
They set up rules that force partners to take certain actions due to "legal and contractual requirements" then pawn the blame off on the partners who aren't able to be contacted or even known about by the customers.
There is a 100% certainty that elements of visa and mastercard corporate employees are involved in this. This is not organic any more than the "internet child protection" laws springing up in multiple countries at the same time is.

[rusty_shackleford]

weird how nobody has an issue with having to verify identity to buy tobacco online

[Norfleet]

weird how nobody has an issue with having to verify identity to buy tobacco online

At the point at which you are BUYING something, meaning, you are already doxing yourself by handing out your financial details and physical location, it's too late for that.

[Trickster]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

[TKVNC]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

Gooning IS wrong, but as Rusty often says, the messenger is often more important than the message.

Jewish bankers sully all messages.

[Tweed]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

Most of the people complaining are ****** ****** deviants.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

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[Stack of Turtles]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

This still hasn't happened since the last time you said it would happen

[Oyster Sauce]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

What was used against me, exactly?

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

This still hasn't happened since the last time you said it would happen

In due time.

[Stack of Turtles]

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

This still hasn't happened since the last time you said it would happen

In due time.

Right after Canada rises up to conquer America, right?

[Oyster Sauce]

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

This still hasn't happened since the last time you said it would happen

In due time.

But you just agreed that it had already been used against him

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

This still hasn't happened since the last time you said it would happen

In due time.

But you just agreed that it had already been used against him

Generally speaking yes, specifically in this case not yet.

[Jordy]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

Who knew that those progressive policies would be used against you whether you support them or not.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

Who knew that those progressive policies would be used against you whether you support them or not.

Acceleration has and always will be ********.

[Jordy]

[Tangerine]

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

Who knew that those progressive policies would be used against you whether you support them or not.

Acceleration has and always will be ********.

Not punching back when someone's been taking swings at you is even more ********.

[rusty_shackleford]

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

me: "Maybe we shouldn't have porn on a platform widely used by children?"
you: *crying* "… BRAINDEAD PURITANS … ATTACK ON HETEROSEXUAL SEXUALITY … WOKE … " *sobbing*

this is why you guys aren't taken seriously, hope that helps

[Kalarion]

Who knew that supporting progressive policies would be used against them.

Who knew that those progressive policies would be used against you whether you support them or not.

Acceleration has and always will be ********.

As always, I was right when I defended eroticism from the braindead puritans here. Attacks on the male manifestation of heterosexual sexuality are the main pillar of woke ideology, into which they pour almost all their energy in the culture war. If you support this, you support these assholes.

Oh my God you braindead roaches. ******* empty-headed rats. Disease-raddled *********. Trickster, get back in the kitchen and make me my ******* sopapillas. UC... you've made it obvious at this point you're a **** so I don't want you cooking ****. Report immediately to the cannon barrel for your launch to the sun.

I see now how you quivering piles of sewer sludge keep winning. Nothing matters but brainlessly repeating your talking points until everyone gives up in a combination of disgust and despair and lets you have your say. Not me. You're both dumbfuck negative IQ ******* and I'm going to hound you in every thread, every post, no matter the subforum, to remind you and everyone else on this forum of your unbelievable (and yet it's true) inability to process the simplest factual points from now until this forum dies with the heat death of the sun.

[Trickster]

Stupid ******* above just proving my point.
Dear assholes, you deserve woke censorship because your mindset is no different from these "progressives" cockroaches. No, not even that, you are the cockroaches. Useful idiots whose shallow brains have been poisoned by woke ethics and who, by their example, show why the West has turned into a dump. This is my last post on this ****** forum. The local soycucks are obviously no different from redditors. Even the "arguments" are literally the same.

[rusty_shackleford]

Stupid ******* above just proving my point.
Dear assholes, you deserve woke censorship because your mindset is no different from these ***** cockroaches. This is my last post on this ****** forum. The local soycucks are obviously no different from redditors. Even the arguments are literally the same.

See you next week!

[Trickster]

Stupid ******* above just proving my point.
Dear assholes, you deserve woke censorship because your mindset is no different from these ***** cockroaches. This is my last post on this ****** forum. The local soycucks are obviously no different from redditors. Even the arguments are literally the same.

See you next week!

Me: You don't have the right to ban someone's game just because you dislike sexual themes.
You: REEE PORN COOMER PEDO PREDATOR *Insert black brainrot YouTube thumbnail with white text.*

Pathetic.

[rusty_shackleford]

Stupid ******* above just proving my point.
Dear assholes, you deserve woke censorship because your mindset is no different from these ***** cockroaches. This is my last post on this ****** forum. The local soycucks are obviously no different from redditors. Even the arguments are literally the same.

See you next week!

Me: You don't have the right to ban someone's game just because you dislike sexual themes.
You: REEE PORN COOMER PEDO PREDATOR *Insert black brainrot YouTube thumbnail with white text.*

Pathetic.

I didn't call for it to be banned, I just think it should use a different storefront. For the same reason I oppose buttplugs being sold at Target.

[Trickster]

See you next week!

Me: You don't have the right to ban someone's game just because you dislike sexual themes.
You: REEE PORN COOMER PEDO PREDATOR *Insert black brainrot YouTube thumbnail with white text.*

Pathetic.

I didn't call for it to be banned, I just think it should use a different storefront. For the same reason I oppose buttplugs being sold at Target.

As I understand it, Steam was created as a platform for all games that developers upload, as long as they follow the rules. You, however, are proposing to rewrite the convenient, working rules (created for a general population of mostly adults) based solely on your own prudish and unnatural views on erotic in games.
As for your "what about the children?" argument, Valve aren't your parents. They don't get paid for that. You want a sterile Steam? Set up Family View for your offspring, and you'll be happy.
But you're obviously not in favor of such options. You're in favor of policing this content for adults who, for the most part, don't give a **** about your opinion.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have jumped on me, along with the other losers, like the lowest mongrel.

[rusty_shackleford]

Me: You don't have the right to ban someone's game just because you dislike sexual themes.
You: REEE PORN COOMER PEDO PREDATOR *Insert black brainrot YouTube thumbnail with white text.*

Pathetic.

I didn't call for it to be banned, I just think it should use a different storefront. For the same reason I oppose buttplugs being sold at Target.

As I understand it, Steam was created as a platform for all games that developers upload, as long as they follow the rules. You, however, are proposing to rewrite the convenient, working rules (created for a general population of mostly adults) based solely on your own prudish and unnatural views on erotic in games.
As for your "what about the children?" argument, Valve aren't your parents. They don't get paid for that. You want a sterile Steam? Set up Family View for your offspring, and you'll be happy.
But you're obviously not in favor of such options. You're in favor of policing this content for adults who, for the most part, don't give a **** about your opinion.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have jumped on me, along with the other losers, like the lowest mongrel.

I just don't want to see porn and I'm less likely to use steam if there is porn on it.

[rusty_shackleford]

because of pornbrains I'm forced to pick between my store page being flooded with INTERACTIVE STEP MOM STUCK IN WASHER or blocking 'mature' content and not being able to see games like Witcher 3.

I actually had to block a bunch of tags to stop getting flooded with porn:

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This is despite my filtering settings looking like this:

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[Trickster]

I didn't call for it to be banned, I just think it should use a different storefront. For the same reason I oppose buttplugs being sold at Target.

As I understand it, Steam was created as a platform for all games that developers upload, as long as they follow the rules. You, however, are proposing to rewrite the convenient, working rules (created for a general population of mostly adults) based solely on your own prudish and unnatural views on erotic in games.
As for your "what about the children?" argument, Valve aren't your parents. They don't get paid for that. You want a sterile Steam? Set up Family View for your offspring, and you'll be happy.
But you're obviously not in favor of such options. You're in favor of policing this content for adults who, for the most part, don't give a **** about your opinion.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have jumped on me, along with the other losers, like the lowest mongrel.

I just don't want to see porn and I'm less likely to use steam if there is porn on it.

account details - store preferences - tags to exclude.
See? It's not that hard. It's a lot easier than trying to force your views and tastes on others through censorship.

[rusty_shackleford]

As I understand it, Steam was created as a platform for all games that developers upload, as long as they follow the rules. You, however, are proposing to rewrite the convenient, working rules (created for a general population of mostly adults) based solely on your own prudish and unnatural views on erotic in games.
As for your "what about the children?" argument, Valve aren't your parents. They don't get paid for that. You want a sterile Steam? Set up Family View for your offspring, and you'll be happy.
But you're obviously not in favor of such options. You're in favor of policing this content for adults who, for the most part, don't give a **** about your opinion.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have jumped on me, along with the other losers, like the lowest mongrel.

I just don't want to see porn and I'm less likely to use steam if there is porn on it.

account details - store preferences - tags to exclude.
See? It's not that hard. It's a lot easier than trying to force your views and tastes on others through censorship.

bunch of porn games aren't even properly tagged as porn

[Trickster]

I just don't want to see porn and I'm less likely to use steam if there is porn on it.

account details - store preferences - tags to exclude.
See? It's not that hard. It's a lot easier than trying to force your views and tastes on others through censorship.

bunch of porn games aren't even properly tagged as porn

That's a different problem at the Steam moderation level. We were talking about how it's unacceptable for radical feminists, or anyone else, to ban games just because they don't align with their ideological biases, as well as the trend of demonizing male heterosexuality and hetero-eroticism in general.

[rusty_shackleford]

That's a different problem at the Steam moderation level. We were talking about how it's unacceptable for radical feminists, or anyone else, to ban games just because they don't align with their ideological biases, as well as the trend of demonizing male heterosexuality and hetero-eroticism in general.

It should probably be banned but because it's radfems doing it I'm not agreeing with it