Comment by Bratmon

1 day ago

If the payment processors really cared about children, they would be banning companies that sell guns, not video games with boobs in them.

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sporedro  19 hours ago

I don’t think they should ban anything that not actually illegal in the first place. But ya if they’re going to “try to protect the kids” at least go for the obvious issues. Then again they don’t actually care about the kids haha.

spicyusername  21 hours ago

This is classic "whataboutism". "What about guns or violence?"

Maybe they will next, maybe not. What does that have to do with them taking this first step? We have to evaluate the merit of this action, on its own.

Personally, I think that opening Steam's "New and Upcoming" and seeing nothing but low-quality porn games is bad. Bad for steam, bad for gamers, and bad for children.

  • philipkglass  20 hours ago

    Personally, I think that opening Steam's "New and Upcoming" and seeing nothing but low-quality porn games is bad.

    Is this something that happens when you have a registered account? I don't have a Steam account. I opened https://store.steampowered.com/explore/upcoming/ in a private browser window and I see only one one game out of 20 tagged with "Nudity" / "Sexual content".

  • Bratmon  20 hours ago

    Payment processors demonstrated that they can, with a handful of keystrokes, destroy any industry they dislike.

    I don't think it's "whataboutism" to ask why they don't do something that helps society with that power instead of using it to censor art they find personally distasteful.

    • spicyusername  17 hours ago

      Did they though...?

      I don't see any destroyed industries.

      Payment can be processed many ways, games can be bought from multiple store fronts, and there are still pornographic games on steam... so...

  • HankStallone  20 hours ago

    GOG is also starting to need a "no porn" filter, though I haven't used Steam, so I don't know how they compare on that.