Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

Post by Affric » Thu, Jul 24, 2025, 10:12 AM UTC

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Affric wrote: post #520

Payments companies successfully got valve to stop purveying weapons grade incest/child-porn/rape themed smut that is barely a game? Nabokov was a great author and Lolita was the work of a great author who turned his pen/typewriter to a detestable subject leading to innumerable questions about art. These guys are just z-graders who get off on non-consensual sexual interactions involving children. Valve absolutely shou…

I don't know how bad these specific games were, but meanwhile, OnlyFans pornographers continue to use sites like Twitch to advertise their work to teens, and Pornhub continues to operate, despite claims that they profit from sex trafficking amongst other things ( https://traffickinghubpetition.com/ ) Seems strange to go after obscure videogames (which presumably don't feature real human beings) in this way. Unless th…

Post by ric2b » Fri, Jul 25, 2025, 3:50 PM UTC

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Say what you want about crypto, but it does solve this problem at least.

It doesn't "solve" the problem, it's just not regulated the same way. If governments decided to extend the same regulations to crypto transactions, what recourse would a person have?

Post by 0xcafefood » Sun, Jul 27, 2025, 1:55 PM UTC

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There are still taboos even for pixels on a screen, even for video games. It's a good thing. There should be. Perhaps you're just saying that you're mostly comfortable with the depiction of some forms of violence in some contexts. But what about other scenarios though? Would you feel the same about a game where the player runs around raping women, or capturing and lynching escaped slaves? It's just pixels!

> Would you feel the same about a game where the player runs around raping women, or capturing and lynching escaped slaves? It's just pixels! If we are already okay with mass murder in video games, then absolutely yes.

Post by markdown » Tue, Jul 29, 2025, 5:14 AM UTC

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I get the well-founded distrust of dietary supplement companies (the OG snake oil salesmen), but they've started banning kava, a completely legal food. So... not dietary supplement companies , but a particular food that is completely legal and regulated as a food by the FDA. You have a business selling food? Are you a bar? A restaurant? Well if you start selling this particular food we don't like, you will be debanke…

It has nothing to do with legality.