Yeah they can just start banning media made by and about queer people. Totally fine and won’t hurt anyone or lead to anything worse. That’s certainly not one of the first things the Nazis did…
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MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Can people please stop using the genocide poem to talk about businesses indpendently choosing to moderate porn games on their platforms?
No one will die from this. There is no government mandate. This is tone-deaf and offensive for anyone who has and is currently experiencing genocide. People in my country are being rounded up and disappeared. You just can’t goon on itch anymore. Boo freaking hoo.
UnpledgedCatnapTipper@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
That’s irrelevant in this case, since the outcry came from payment processing companies and a sex-negative, TERF-adjacent special interest group. Yes, not great, but not also tied to the people in power. Yet people are acting like the federal government has struck down itch.io itself with the rhetoric being pushed.
I will be much more concerned when elected Republicans start going after a designated porn site, like Pornhub or something, to scrub out the queer content or to shutter it altogether.
So when you invoke the genocide poem, you really need to be asking, “Who is the they in this situation?” If it’s not the government, I’m sorry, but it doesn’t apply and it’s offensive to the POCs and queer people facing real problems in the U.S. right now.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Finally someone mentions it. It’s just straight up gross to compare. But I will say it only makes sense for people to get mad over here.
In the context of US: Gay, lesbian, or trans characters existing is enough to label a media under “porn” and states like Florida regularly ban lgbtq+ books using this loophole.
So a lot of people instinctively go on defensive when anyone bans porn.
Also full story wasn’t the business independently chosing to moderate. Another company told them to and game company had to comply.
People are mad an unrelated company out there is trying to regulate what you can’t buy with your money. It just feels weird.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Straight up wholly accurate and applicable. If you don’t understand that basic fact, maybe you need to hear it referenced a few more times…
bouh@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Censorship is always the first step. Genocide is the last step. People getting mad when the first step toward fascism is crossed is a very good thing to fight fascism and try to prevent a future genocide. This is exactly what the poem is about : react on the first step, because it will be too late when the genocide starts.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
In our administration, censorship wasn’t the first step though. I’m not sure why you think this set of events is the first step. The Trump Administration dismantled the Constitution earlier than this, and ICE disappearing people and Trump making anti-trans EOs predates this as well.
And it really seems like people care way more about the censorship than the much worse things happening right now.