Official statement on Steam being pressured to remove offensive content

[Roguey]

If kids don't use Steam, why does it have dedicated parental controls?

That's kids using their parents' account.

The terms of service says you have to be at least 13 years of age to sign up for an account.

[A Chinese opium den]

If kids don't use Steam, why does it have dedicated parental controls?

That's kids using their parents' account.

The terms of service says you have to be at least 13 years of age to sign up for an account.

13 year olds are children...

[Vergil]

I don't know why you're all continuing to argue with a person who is just going to make you jump through a million hoops to explain basic observable reality.
Multiple friends of mine were getting groomed in TF2 servers when I was in middle school. My Steam account was made when I was like 10-11 years old and I got Garry's Mod for my birthday.
He thinks no* kids at all are using Steam to play streamer of the month games like Lethal Company or Peak?
Come on now, get real.

*an insignificant amount

[Roguey]

13 year olds are children...

When I was a teenage boy we were all into the pornographics, big deal. It's what teenage boys do.

[Vergil]

When I was a teenage boy we were all into the pornographics

Yea, and look how you turned out dawg

[Acrux]

You seem to think that's making a case for you position...

[Oyster Sauce]

13 year olds are children...

When I was a teenage boy we were all into the pornographics, big deal. It's what teenage boys do.

They should have to earn it

[Roguey]

When I was a teenage boy we were all into the pornographics

Yea, and look how you turned out dawg

I turned out healthy enough, as did they. I'm aware of a good number that got married.

[Oyster Sauce]

When I was a teenage boy we were all into the pornographics

Yea, and look how you turned out dawg

I turned out healthy enough, as did they. I'm aware of a good number that got married.

Like yesterday you said your last relationship was 20 years ago

[Roguey]

Like yesterday you said your last relationship was 20 years ago

This has nothing to do with what I was looking at as a teenager. I was born with an abnormal mind. A loner throughout elementary school. There was a period of time when raging hormones made me more social, that time has long passed.

[Vergil]

I turned out healthy enough

Your posts are public

[Roguey]

I turned out healthy enough

Your posts are public

I am not a porn fiend or a sex addict, I have a healthy respect and understanding of women. I was fascinated by crossdressers/transwomen years before I had seen a naked person if you think that's related, I believe this PG-13 rated movie was one of my earliest exposures to the concept.

[Vergil]

I turned out healthy enough

Your posts are public

I am not a porn fiend or a sex addict, I have a healthy respect and understanding of women. I was fascinated by crossdressers/transwomen years before I had seen a naked person if you think that's related, I believe this PG-13 rated movie was one of my earliest exposures to the concept.

I see so what you're saying is exposure to bizarre sexually subversive material as a kid shaped you into the ****** chaser you are now... good thing no one censored that for you!

[ArcaneLurker]

They don't care about preventing the ruination (almost wrote urination lol) of women or the minds of men

However, if you can't see why they would care about ruining minds, I have to question your judgement. To them it's just another means to socially engineer, if it ruins lives, that's better for them.

"preventing"

"However" "if"

[Trickster]

She wouldn't change her mind. She has True Religion.

God, imagine what we could do with an army of men like this. I hate them all and everything, but sometimes I'm so ******* envious I could scream.

She unblocked me after her tantrum last night and is still going on about how white men are the worst.


People, this is what we call buck broken. She also ignored this guys post and blocked him. Remember, feminism was never about protecting women and girls and "empowering" them. It was always about the hatred of white men and destroying white culture.

Feminists are incredibly stupid. Statistically, something like 99% of men, especially white men, don't commit violence of any kind. The fact that sexual violence is overwhelmingly committed by men comes down to a few things, and it's not what feminists ***** think.

• Sheer Physicality. It's just easier for them. Men are, on average, physically stronger. But that's a terrible reason to blame all men. Are you going to start blaming every tall, built guy for the fact that some random thug sucker-punched you on the street? Of course not. It’s blaming a demographic for the potential of a few. It’s like blaming everyone who owns a car for the actions of drunk drivers. It's a lazy, pointless.

• Culture, but not in the way feminists think. The real culprit is gynocentrism. We've built a culture where men are told they have to "chase" women, constantly pursuing and pleasing them. A man's entire value is boiled down to whether he's had sex with a woman. I mean, just look at the favorite insult thrown around by these same circles: "incel." They brand men who fail at this game as worthless outcasts. And then they have the audacity to be surprised when someone who has been told his entire life that he's subhuman without sex, and who is consistently denied it, eventually snaps and decides to take it by force? You literally create the conditions for this, and then you're surprised when it happens.

• Men bear the brunt of social collapse. Men are the primary victims of marginalization and societal upheaval. War, poverty, cultural decay, violence, you name it, men are on the front lines, taking the hardest hits. And yes, despite what feminists might whine about, men are the main victims of violence. As the most socio-economically active gender, they are the first to be crushed by a failing system. It's no coincidence that the vast majority of the homeless and people who commit suicide are men. Yet, modern society, especially the woke crowd, openly disdains them. Contempt for men has become a cornerstone of their ideology. This hardens men's hearts and just pours fuel on the fire. And here again, feminists actively work against both men and women. Go ahead and Google how they've shut down men's shelters for the simple "crime" of being male-only spaces. They'd rather see men on the street than give them a space of their own.

• The statistics about SA against men are garbage. We have no idea what the real number of male sexual assault victims is. First, academia is completely captured by woke ideologues. Any research into men's issues is met with instant hostility. Papers get criticized, suppressed, and buried. You'll never see them widely published or discussed. Second, this stuff is incredibly hard to track. Unlike women, who are culturally encouraged to run to the police if someone so much as looks at them the wrong way, men are conditioned to be silent and stoic (a trait, by the way, that feminism ironically reinforces). They're taught to ignore their problems and just "man up." This is especially true if a man is assaulted by a woman. I don't know how it is in your country, but where I'm from, there's a very real chance the police would laugh him out of the station and refuse to even file a report. Knowing this, is it any wonder that men choose to stay silent?

And for the grand finale, these dumb ***** seem to forget that the vast majority of firefighters, doctors, scientists, rescue workers, and cops are... you guessed it, men! Statistically, there are overwhelmingly more of them than there are rapists and thugs. For God's sake, the fact that a woman's life expectancy is over 40, or that a normal pregnancy doesn't have to be a death sentence, is only possible because certain men, at some point, invented penicillin and the caesarean section. But no, let's just ignore all that.

According to feminists, a woman should act like a horse with blinders on. Her entire existence must be laser-focused on SUFFERING, completely oblivious to everything else happening around her.

You know, there's a vicious irony in that whole "Man vs. Bear" debate. Feminists work overtime to demonize men, creating this cartoon villain caricature of an entire gender. They teach women to stop thinking for themselves, to hate their other half, and in the end, they tell them to jump straight into the jaws of a literal predator.

If you ask me, it's the perfect illustration of just how poisonous and fundamentally broken this ideology really is.

[Stack of Turtles]

13 year olds are children...

When I was a teenage boy we were all into the pornographics, big deal. It's what teenage boys do.

I wasn't, and I turned out better than you.

[RangerBoo]

You know, there's a vicious irony in that whole "Man vs. Bear" debate. Feminists work overtime to demonize men, creating this cartoon villain caricature of an entire gender. They teach women to stop thinking for themselves, to hate their other half, and in the end, they tell them to jump straight into the jaws of a literal predator.

If you ask me, it's the perfect illustration of just how poisonous and fundamentally broken this ideology really is.

If you guys want to have fun I suggest asking feminists the Man or Bear question. If they answer the bear ask them; "But what if that man is a black or brown man?" You will get called a racist bigot and get blocked. I think this is the reason why a lot of women are now starting to take the rose tinted glasses off with feminism. In Western Europe most of their governments are controlled by feminists. The UK government is a feminist government. What happened when feminists got in control of Western Europe? They immediately open the gates of their country to a horde of mass raping brown and black savages. Whenever a white native woman would complain the feminist politicians will call that woman a "lying little harlot" who "had it coming". Feminists never cared about women. If you were to have them choose between a white female rape victim or a mass raping brown immigrant they will choose the immigrant in a heartbeat while victim shaming the white woman. At the end of the day feminists will choose their hatred of the white race over the safety of women and girls.

[Trickster]

They immediately open the gates of their country to a horde of mass raping brown and black savages.

[Roguey]

I wasn't, and I turned out better than you.

You're either a unicorn or a liar.

And I'm not just talking about myself. Every teenage boy I talked to on IRC was a porn fiend. All the boys at school were into it as well. There was an amusing incident in my freshman year where one of the lads brought out a picture he printed to show everyone before the teacher arrived, another when I was hanging out at my friend's house and we were playing a game while two other fellows were on the computer and he started fuming and told them to cut it out when they decided to look up porn on his computer. Easy access to internet porn has been the reality for 30 years.

[rusty_shackleford]

"well yes our generation is full of fuckups but we're all porn freaks"

[Stack of Turtles]

You're either a unicorn or a liar.

And I'm not just talking about myself. Every teenage boy I talked to on IRC was a porn fiend.

Yeah I'm sure that's true on #gayteens, but it doesn't correspond to real life.

[Roguey]

Yeah I'm sure that's true on #gayteens, but it doesn't correspond to real life.

My friends group were massive homophobes like all teenage boys. They ragged on me for being into transwomen back then as well. Some years ago I saw one of the fellows (who moved to Europe and got married) had a he/him on his social media profile, how the tables turn.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

My friends group were massive homophobes like all teenage boys. They ragged on me for being into transwomen back then as well.

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[Breathe]

You know, there's a vicious irony in that whole "Man vs. Bear" debate. Feminists work overtime to demonize men, creating this cartoon villain caricature of an entire gender. They teach women to stop thinking for themselves, to hate their other half, and in the end, they tell them to jump straight into the jaws of a literal predator.

If you ask me, it's the perfect illustration of just how poisonous and fundamentally broken this ideology really is.

If you guys want to have fun I suggest asking feminists the Man or Bear question. If they answer the bear ask them; "But what if that man is a black or brown man?" You will get called a racist bigot and get blocked. I think this is the reason why a lot of women are now starting to take the rose tinted glasses off with feminism. In Western Europe most of their governments are controlled by feminists. The UK government is a feminist government. What happened when feminists got in control of Western Europe? They immediately open the gates of their country to a horde of mass raping brown and black savages. Whenever a white native woman would complain the feminist politicians will call that woman a "lying little harlot" who "had it coming". Feminists never cared about women. If you were to have them choose between a white female rape victim or a mass raping brown immigrant they will choose the immigrant in a heartbeat while victim shaming the white woman. At the end of the day feminists will choose their hatred of the white race over the safety of women and girls.

Well, unfortunately it's all part of the plan. The way they've made the west with DEI, White women aren't being punished the way White men are. They still have the govt siding with them, they help them get jobs, etc.; the list goes on. They don't see the negative effects, all while White men are getting **** on. This is perfect if you want to keep women blind to what's happening. The women **** on men just as much because life is easier for them and they think it's the same for their men. That's why they don't listen to the pleas of their men.

[Irenaeus]

Yeah I'm sure that's true on #gayteens, but it doesn't correspond to real life.

My friends group were massive homophobes like all teenage boys. They ragged on me for being into transwomen back then as well. Some years ago I saw one of the fellows (who moved to Europe and got married) had a he/him on his social media profile, how the tables turn.

******.

[rusty_shackleford]

Itch.io banned porn, nobody cared when he did this so why should I care now?

Nah, I bought his game on itch for example. Only the big ones are enforcing this nonsense.

If you're referring to the censorship part, I'm referring to the owner having a meltdown and being pro-censorship.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ ... idiculous-

Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran has branded Valve's lackadaisical open-door Steam content policy "out of touch" and "ridiculous."



Corcoran's comments refer to a blog post shared by Valve, where the company explained it wouldn't be policing the Steam marketplace, other than to remove anything that's "illegal or straight up trolling."


Valve claimed it shouldn't be tasked with choosing what content Steam users can and can't buy, or what developers are allowed to create.


"Those choices should be yours to make," explained the company. "Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable."


Corcoran, who founded the Itch digital marketplace back in 2013, is of the opposite opinion, and tweeted that "a platform that allows 'everything unless it's illegal or straight up trolling' is ridiculous."


"Please keep your malicious, derogatory, discriminatory, bullying, harassing, demeaning content off Itch.io," he continued. "Our ban buttons are ready."

[Roguey]

I am against this, but itch.io is full of cringe leftists so I can delight in their frustration.

I hope they successfully fight back though.

[SoLong]

Itch.io banned porn, nobody cared when he did this so why should I care now?

Nah, I bought his game on itch for example. Only the big ones are enforcing this nonsense.

If you're referring to the censorship part, I'm referring to the owner having a meltdown and being pro-censorship.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/ ... idiculous-

Itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran has branded Valve's lackadaisical open-door Steam content policy "out of touch" and "ridiculous."



Corcoran's comments refer to a blog post shared by Valve, where the company explained it wouldn't be policing the Steam marketplace, other than to remove anything that's "illegal or straight up trolling."


Valve claimed it shouldn't be tasked with choosing what content Steam users can and can't buy, or what developers are allowed to create.


"Those choices should be yours to make," explained the company. "Our role should be to provide systems and tools to support your efforts to make these choices for yourself, and to help you do it in a way that makes you feel comfortable."


Corcoran, who founded the Itch digital marketplace back in 2013, is of the opposite opinion, and tweeted that "a platform that allows 'everything unless it's illegal or straight up trolling' is ridiculous."


"Please keep your malicious, derogatory, discriminatory, bullying, harassing, demeaning content off Itch.io," he continued. "Our ban buttons are ready."

I remember telling idiot redditards that cheering this move would bite them in the *** sooner or later, and here we are.

Why the **** anyone there or here would be happy that major credit companies are listening to entitled shrieking feminists is beyond me. No you numbskulls, this will not stop with the people you don't like, these controlling harpies will come for you too. (Yes, that includes you too, rusty.)

I am against this, but itch.io is full of cringe leftists so I can delight in their frustration.

I hope they successfully fight back though.

Thank you for not throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Actually, I read itch's statement and the first part is surprisingly honest, even if it's couched in PR speak. I did like that they directed blame where it belongs, with the rabid feminists and the payment processors that bow to them.

If anyone on the right has any sense they would use it to drive a wedge between these controlling ******* and the affected groups. Unless the right is too inept to exploit it or the left to cowardly to fight back against the entitled witches...

We're doomed, aren't we?

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

We're doomed, aren't we?

We were already were doomed from the very start.

[Roguey]

Itch.io has not just delisted games, but removed them from the libraries of people who have paid for them without refunds. They do not acknowledge this anywhere.

lolllllllll not even Valve would do that. If you buy a game on Steam it's yours for as long as your account is in good standing even when it's no longer available for purchase.

Face-status: eaten by the Leopards Eating People's Faces party.