Comment by spicyusername

1 day 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.

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philipkglass  1 day 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  1 day 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  21 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  1 day 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.