For the time being, it's just the games with incest and non-consensual sex. What it'll develop into, time will tell. Maybe that's more or less where it'll stop. Perhaps ALL games with sexual content will end up on the chopping block. Or we could end up with everything not rated E for everyone being forced off the stores.

This is why you ALWAYS defend the fringes of free speech. Moral busybodies are insatiable and will never stop where you want them to.

poor sex with stalin fans (((:

Originally posted by tnu:

This is why you ALWAYS defend the fringes of free speech. Moral busybodies are insatiable and will never stop where you want them to.

Free speech has never existed here so I don't know what you're trying to imply. Free speech has to do with the government's non-ability to put you in jail for whatever you say. Valve is a private company and they can censor anything they wish. Especially content that threatens their business model or threatens their ability to do business at all.

For the next few years, there will be a big activist push to destroy as much of the industry as possible. They know they have a limited amount of time to do as much damage as possible, and will try to capitalize on it. Then, as gamers and freedom of expression advocates wake up and start to take action, the pendulum will swing in the other direction. We outnumber them considerably. But for now, expect a lot of the adult game market to be hit with sanctions. I expect a much larger chunk of adult Steam games to get pulled over the next few months. Itch pulled three-quarters of their entire library, which included even just regular old anime games with a little bit of exposed skin as fan service.

They know they ultimately aren't going to win. So they're not doing this to accomplish any kind of "meaningful social change" as they would claim they are. They're doing this simply to hurt gamers, whom they see as the great enemy of progressive thought.

Originally posted by Almega:

As title asked isn't all being removed or the stuff they deem wrong like incest and stuff?

Now they are actively removing BDSM.
" Dominated by: Sadistic MILF Landlord"
"My Tomboy Bully Uses Me as Her Punching Bag"
"Dominated by: Yandere Goth Mommy"

Didn't play any of these games, but "Goth Mommy" is just a slang not actual incest in 99% of cases.

But you will have nothing and you will be happy.

Yup.

If you wanted some specific hentai game for a while, better buy soon.

Eventually it will expand to ban more and more content, first sex games, then other "problematic" games. Almost all forms of censorship starts with the think of the kids arguments.

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Originally posted by tnu:

This is why you ALWAYS defend the fringes of free speech. Moral busybodies are insatiable and will never stop where you want them to.

Free speech has never existed here so I don't know what you're trying to imply. Free speech has to do with the government's non-ability to put you in jail for whatever you say. Valve is a private company and they can censor anything they wish. Especially content that threatens their business model or threatens their ability to do business at all.

As much as I dislike to agree with this it is correct.

We can always do business elsewhere if we don't like the policies.

That said, allowing the vocal minority to make decisions for the majority is never a wise thing to see happen ... especially knowing that it was done to purposely interfere in the enjoyment of other people.

Originally posted by miakisfan:

Originally posted by C²C^Guyver |NZB|:

Free speech has never existed here so I don't know what you're trying to imply. Free speech has to do with the government's non-ability to put you in jail for whatever you say. Valve is a private company and they can censor anything they wish. Especially content that threatens their business model or threatens their ability to do business at all.

As much as I dislike to agree with this it is correct.

We can always do business elsewhere if we don't like the policies.

That said, allowing the vocal minority to make decisions for the majority is never a wise thing to see happen ... especially knowing that it was done to purposely interfere in the enjoyment of other people.

Valve isn't doing the censoring, though.

Pro-censorship advocates will try to frame this as Valve having done the censorship all along, when in all practical considerations this is false. It's a powerful fallacy to use against the ignorant, however, which is unfortunate as they make up a large percentage of the population. Just like crying "think of the children," it's simply a strategy that works, and they won't stop using it.

Please remove all the porn, thank God they are doing this censorship, Steam is not a porn site, deal with it!!!!!

Good. I just hope they remove the memes/asset-flips/nft-scams/broken-games that dont work etc aswell while at it so its not flooded anymore 🙏

Europe is absolutely cooked. Europeans crave censorship and having someone else do all the thinking for them. I even see it in some European friends I've met in games over the years. They've been completely conditioned to accept a top-down governmental command structure as long as the entitlements keep coming in. US, Japan, and a couple of places in South America and in/around the Baltics are like the only places that try to maintain some semblance of self-determination. Enjoy getting jailed for Twitter posts.

"More babies...more babies...gay bad 'cause no babies...porn bad 'cause less babies...more population....more population...limited resources...most resources hoarded at the top of the pyramid...make pyramid go up by increasing the size of its base...a game of Monopoly / Jenga anyone?" - Joshua, WarGames (1983)


Relevant Fallout 4 reference...

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Originally posted by The nameless Gamer:

For the time being, it's just the games with incest and non-consensual sex. What it'll develop into, time will tell. Maybe that's more or less where it'll stop. Perhaps ALL games with sexual content will end up on the chopping block. Or we could end up with everything not rated E for everyone being forced off the stores.

Oh no. How will Steam ever recover from this tremendous blow. qq