Official statement on Steam being pressured to remove offensive content

[Acrux]

Sure are a lot of porn addicts in this thread.

[Rumbles]

They got to itch because they are much less reputable, yet a good checkmark in their campaign. It was mostly a site for demos and game jams that was a popularity test for soon-to-be-steam games. Past years it has grown into some weird moshpit of LGBT and NSFW crowd. Funny how again, they can't get their jaws on big games (Crusader Kings 3 has blood relations, eh?), but there will be a time. Funny how they aren't going against the drug simulator or gambling games, which also hurt young minds. Regardless, this is bad news overall and I'm very surprised hq sides with faux-feminists who's propaganda is paid by jew banks. What a weird timeline. Maybe you were all britbongs larping as Americans after all, since you seem to enjoy censorship and global verification systems so much.

Also by the way adult games make up a huge share of Steam's revenue and hurts them even a small bit. I agree there should be some base level ID photo verification to buy them, but the whole story about kids seeing content that never even shows up on home page unless you turn it on is very disingenuous and sounds like the senate discussing anything tech-related. Graph is from 2023 but I'm sure it's even wilder now considering the rising lifestyle of "gooning"

[Oyster Sauce]

They got to itch because they are much less reputable, yet a good checkmark in their campaign. It was mostly a site for demos and game jams that was a popularity test for soon-to-be-steam games. Past years it has grown into some weird moshpit of LGBT and NSFW crowd. Funny how again, they can't get their jaws on big games (Crusader Kings 3 has blood relations, eh?), but there will be a time. Funny how they aren't going against the drug simulator or gambling games, which also hurt young minds. Regardless, this is bad news overall and I'm very surprised hq sides with faux-feminists who's propaganda is paid by jew banks. What a weird timeline. Maybe you were all britbongs larping as Americans after all, since you seem to enjoy censorship and global verification systems so much.

Also by the way adult games make up a huge share of Steam's revenue and hurts them even a small bit. I agree there should be some base level ID photo verification to buy them, but the whole story about kids seeing content that never even shows up on home page unless you turn it on is very disingenuous and sounds like the senate discussing anything tech-related. Graph is from 2023 but I'm sure it's even wilder now considering the rising lifestyle of "gooning"

Censorship is great and if you don't like it you're a ***

[Rumbles]

They got to itch because they are much less reputable, yet a good checkmark in their campaign. It was mostly a site for demos and game jams that was a popularity test for soon-to-be-steam games. Past years it has grown into some weird moshpit of LGBT and NSFW crowd. Funny how again, they can't get their jaws on big games (Crusader Kings 3 has blood relations, eh?), but there will be a time. Funny how they aren't going against the drug simulator or gambling games, which also hurt young minds. Regardless, this is bad news overall and I'm very surprised hq sides with faux-feminists who's propaganda is paid by jew banks. What a weird timeline. Maybe you were all britbongs larping as Americans after all, since you seem to enjoy censorship and global verification systems so much.

Also by the way adult games make up a huge share of Steam's revenue and hurts them even a small bit. I agree there should be some base level ID photo verification to buy them, but the whole story about kids seeing content that never even shows up on home page unless you turn it on is very disingenuous and sounds like the senate discussing anything tech-related. Graph is from 2023 but I'm sure it's even wilder now considering the rising lifestyle of "gooning"

Censorship is great and if you don't like it you're a ***

If you choose the republican standpoint then I have bad news for you, payment processors have already come for gun sellers, and wrestling (seeing Fansly platform statements). They will probably go for alcohol home shipment soon even if it's just for regarding a dozen of states. They aren't your friends. May I suggest turning Mormon?

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

They got to itch because they are much less reputable, yet a good checkmark in their campaign. It was mostly a site for demos and game jams that was a popularity test for soon-to-be-steam games. Past years it has grown into some weird moshpit of LGBT and NSFW crowd. Funny how again, they can't get their jaws on big games (Crusader Kings 3 has blood relations, eh?), but there will be a time. Funny how they aren't going against the drug simulator or gambling games, which also hurt young minds. Regardless, this is bad news overall and I'm very surprised hq sides with faux-feminists who's propaganda is paid by jew banks. What a weird timeline. Maybe you were all britbongs larping as Americans after all, since you seem to enjoy censorship and global verification systems so much.

Also by the way adult games make up a huge share of Steam's revenue and hurts them even a small bit. I agree there should be some base level ID photo verification to buy them, but the whole story about kids seeing content that never even shows up on home page unless you turn it on is very disingenuous and sounds like the senate discussing anything tech-related. Graph is from 2023 but I'm sure it's even wilder now considering the rising lifestyle of "gooning"

Censorship is great and if you don't like it you're a ***

I will remember that next time when EA sends another DMCA Takedown to this site because of a mod they dislike.

[Oyster Sauce]

They got to itch because they are much less reputable, yet a good checkmark in their campaign. It was mostly a site for demos and game jams that was a popularity test for soon-to-be-steam games. Past years it has grown into some weird moshpit of LGBT and NSFW crowd. Funny how again, they can't get their jaws on big games (Crusader Kings 3 has blood relations, eh?), but there will be a time. Funny how they aren't going against the drug simulator or gambling games, which also hurt young minds. Regardless, this is bad news overall and I'm very surprised hq sides with faux-feminists who's propaganda is paid by jew banks. What a weird timeline. Maybe you were all britbongs larping as Americans after all, since you seem to enjoy censorship and global verification systems so much.

Also by the way adult games make up a huge share of Steam's revenue and hurts them even a small bit. I agree there should be some base level ID photo verification to buy them, but the whole story about kids seeing content that never even shows up on home page unless you turn it on is very disingenuous and sounds like the senate discussing anything tech-related. Graph is from 2023 but I'm sure it's even wilder now considering the rising lifestyle of "gooning"

Censorship is great and if you don't like it you're a ***

I will remember that next time when EA sends another DMCA Takedown to this site because of a mod they dislike.

It's good when bad things happen to people I don't like and not good when they happen to me - hope this helps!

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

Censorship is great and if you don't like it you're a ***

I will remember that next time when EA sends another DMCA Takedown to this site because of a mod they dislike.

It's good when bad things happen to people I don't like and not good when they happen to me - hope this helps!

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

[Acrux]

It's good when bad things happen to people I don't like and not good when they happen to me - hope this helps!

@Unhelpful Contrarian This by the way is what EVERYONE believes. You think you are consistent in your beliefs about "equality" or "fairness" but in fact you are lying to yourself. In your actual life you (and everyone else) act the exact same way. Check yourself and you'll find it's true.

[Jordy]

It's good when bad things happen to people I don't like and not good when they happen to me - hope this helps!

@Unhelpful Contrarian This by the way is what EVERYONE believes. You think you are consistent in your beliefs about "equality" or "fairness" but in fact you are lying to yourself. In your actual life you (and everyone else) act the exact same way. Check yourself and you'll find it's true.

No way! I'm going to be fair and equal to my enemy even if they hold the opposite values and will use it to destroy me!

[mercerxiv]

Well, I definitely saw a bit of a spectrum of reactions to this event lol, even among people in the so-called conservative/GG/trad/and so on sphere.
Some people taking the "but freedom of expression" angle.
Some are taking the "ugly puritan femoids got a W" angle.
Some are taking the "get your porn off my cozy platform" angle.
Etc..

What do I think about it?
Hmm, good riddance. I think we should also bring back general obscenity laws and ban distribution of indecent materials over public communications services, which should include the biggest one of them all (and it's not the mail).
No more smut literature too (you know what kind I mean).
There used to be a time where I'd be more likely take the freedom angle rather than the puritan one, but when it's literally the Demons of Slaanesh or puritans, I pick puritans.

[Unhelpful Contrarian]

“Free speech for me but not for thee”

[Acrux]

“Free speech for me but not for thee”

Yes

[Stack of Turtles]

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.)

They already did come for him. This IS the "coming for the other side too" part, and that's a good thing.

BTW, they won't come for me, because I don't use any of their services. This sounds like a you problem to me!

[Stack of Turtles]

If you choose the republican standpoint then I have bad news for you, payment processors have already come for gun sellers, and wrestling (seeing Fansly platform statements). They will probably go for alcohol home shipment soon even if it's just for regarding a dozen of states. They aren't your friends. May I suggest turning Mormon?

Based. You shouldn't be able to buy alcohol either.

[rusty_shackleford]

They got to itch because they are much less reputable, yet a good checkmark in their campaign. It was mostly a site for demos and game jams that was a popularity test for soon-to-be-steam games. Past years it has grown into some weird moshpit of LGBT and NSFW crowd. Funny how again, they can't get their jaws on big games (Crusader Kings 3 has blood relations, eh?), but there will be a time. Funny how they aren't going against the drug simulator or gambling games, which also hurt young minds. Regardless, this is bad news overall and I'm very surprised hq sides with faux-feminists who's propaganda is paid by jew banks. What a weird timeline. Maybe you were all britbongs larping as Americans after all, since you seem to enjoy censorship and global verification systems so much.

Also by the way adult games make up a huge share of Steam's revenue and hurts them even a small bit. I agree there should be some base level ID photo verification to buy them, but the whole story about kids seeing content that never even shows up on home page unless you turn it on is very disingenuous and sounds like the senate discussing anything tech-related. Graph is from 2023 but I'm sure it's even wilder now considering the rising lifestyle of "gooning"

Censorship is great and if you don't like it you're a ***

If you choose the republican standpoint then I have bad news for you, payment processors have already come for gun sellers, and wrestling (seeing Fansly platform statements). They will probably go for alcohol home shipment soon even if it's just for regarding a dozen of states. They aren't your friends. May I suggest turning Mormon?

" heh those things you like were censored for years but now they've come for the things I like you should defend me"

[Rumbles]

Censorship is great and if you don't like it you're a ***

If you choose the republican standpoint then I have bad news for you, payment processors have already come for gun sellers, and wrestling (seeing Fansly platform statements). They will probably go for alcohol home shipment soon even if it's just for regarding a dozen of states. They aren't your friends. May I suggest turning Mormon?

" heh those things you like were censored for years but now they've come for the things I like you should defend me"

What's censored for years and you liked anyways? Zoophilia? Not even sure. You are trying very hard to signify a point that doesn't exist, you just like your rights taken away from you because you are a government sucking ****

[rusty_shackleford]

If you choose the republican standpoint then I have bad news for you, payment processors have already come for gun sellers, and wrestling (seeing Fansly platform statements). They will probably go for alcohol home shipment soon even if it's just for regarding a dozen of states. They aren't your friends. May I suggest turning Mormon?

" heh those things you like were censored for years but now they've come for the things I like you should defend me"

What's censored for years and you liked anyways? Zoophilia? Not even sure. You are trying very hard to signify a point that doesn't exist, you just like your rights taken away from you because you are a government sucking ****

itch didn't even have to be forced to deplatform people like me by payment processors, they did it willingly

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."

[rusty_shackleford]

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."

[Rumbles]

" heh those things you like were censored for years but now they've come for the things I like you should defend me"

What's censored for years and you liked anyways? Zoophilia? Not even sure. You are trying very hard to signify a point that doesn't exist, you just like your rights taken away from you because you are a government sucking ****

itch didn't even have to be forced to deplatform people like me by payment processors, they did it willingly

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 mean all these adjectives don't describe at least majority of nsfw games or visual novels, there are obviously some ****** up ones. I do know itch has removed a lot of games that were kept on gamejolt or old gametrove so at least he stands by that old statement, even if he has been blinded by money ever since.

[rusty_shackleford]

I mean all these adjectives don't describe at least majority of nsfw games or visual novels,

They describe the kind of games I like!

[SoLong]

BTW, they won't come for me, because I don't use any of their services. This sounds like a you problem to me!

Unlikely, since you use their services by extension every time you make any kind of electronic money transfer with a card.

Don't get me wrong, feel free to laugh at the crying *******. Just remember to kick Visa/MC in the balls too, even if the ******* benefit by proxy. You have them in a position where they're willing to surrender a major weapon because they got the financial equivalent of a paper cut, ******* size the moment and exploit it properly. Who the **** cares that these thundercunts can have easier access to wankbait if they're willing to surrender an attack route against the ******* second amendment (and lots of other things) in exchange?

Also, I discovered the Fair Access to Banking Act, which does in fact do both: prevent payment processors and banks from discriminating against gun buyers (the Republican lawmakers primary goal) while also protecting games by proxy.

Amazingly enough even a few redditards seem to come around on it, even though the worst of them cry that the bill has the Republican's cooties all over it.

(I swear, deep left redditors are some kind of black hole of intelligence. No matter how many good arguments you pour into them, no sense ever escapes the event horizon.)

[rusty_shackleford]

I'm good with laughing at people who did this to me having it done to them by someone bigger.

[Stack of Turtles]

BTW, they won't come for me, because I don't use any of their services. This sounds like a you problem to me!

Unlikely, since you use their services by extension every time you make any kind of electronic money transfer with a card.

Yeah, I know. I use cash.

[SoLong]

BTW, they won't come for me, because I don't use any of their services. This sounds like a you problem to me!

Unlikely, since you use their services by extension every time you make any kind of electronic money transfer with a card.

Yeah, I know. I use cash.

Which you withdraw from a bank? Which does business with which companies to coordinate their money? I mean there could be banks that don't have contracts with Visa or Mastercard, but I can't think of one...

[Stack of Turtles]

Unlikely, since you use their services by extension every time you make any kind of electronic money transfer with a card.

Yeah, I know. I use cash.

Which you withdraw from a bank? Which does business with which companies to coordinate their money? I mean there could be banks that don't have contracts with Visa or Mastercard, but I can't think of one...

No, I use cash.

[rusty_shackleford]

Unlikely, since you use their services by extension every time you make any kind of electronic money transfer with a card.

Yeah, I know. I use cash.

Which you withdraw from a bank? Which does business with which companies to coordinate their money? I mean there could be banks that don't have contracts with Visa or Mastercard, but I can't think of one...

If it was the banks doing the deplatforming it would be a non-issue, we already have tons of regulations regarding this along with thousands of banks.

[rusty_shackleford]

I guess it's a question of whether you think a game like Hatred, which is most definitely a social commentary game(in a few ways), is more worthy of defending than incest rape horsecock simulator games.

People who failed the former test are not getting my sympathies for the latter.

[SoLong]

Yeah, I know. I use cash.

Which you withdraw from a bank? Which does business with which companies to coordinate their money? I mean there could be banks that don't have contracts with Visa or Mastercard, but I can't think of one...

If it was the banks doing the deplatforming it would be a non-issue, we already have tons of regulations regarding this along with thousands of banks.

Which is why the bill I talked about is so neat, since it also affects payment processors by extension. It's closing the same loophole that has been used, multiple times, to **** over (prospective) gun owners.

[rusty_shackleford]

Apparently GOG will no longer publish adult games which is great, the platform was 80% hgames now

[stormvermin]

BTW, they won't come for me, because I don't use any of their services. This sounds like a you problem to me!

Unlikely, since you use their services by extension every time you make any kind of electronic money transfer with a card.

Don't get me wrong, feel free to laugh at the crying *******. Just remember to kick Visa/MC in the balls too, even if the ******* benefit by proxy. You have them in a position where they're willing to surrender a major weapon because they got the financial equivalent of a paper cut, ******* size the moment and exploit it properly. Who the **** cares that these thundercunts can have easier access to wankbait if they're willing to surrender an attack route against the ******* second amendment (and lots of other things) in exchange?

Also, I discovered the Fair Access to Banking Act, which does in fact do both: prevent payment processors and banks from discriminating against gun buyers (the Republican lawmakers primary goal) while also protecting games by proxy.

Amazingly enough even a few redditards seem to come around on it, even though the worst of them cry that the bill has the Republican's cooties all over it.

(I swear, deep left redditors are some kind of black hole of intelligence. No matter how many good arguments you pour into them, no sense ever escapes the event horizon.)

I don't know how welcome Kiwi Farms is here but Josh just wrote a sneedpost about the Fair Access to Banking Act that's worth a read.

Also, @RangerBoo you can find Lidl crashing out at the end of the page if that's of interest to you.