Comment on the game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle
Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world 2 hours agoUm, he didn’t say he was deciding for others, he said he could understand how others would be hesitant… sounded like he was supporting your very point that people have a right to have their own opinion.
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
The only reason someone wouldn’t want to sell something is because of pressure from others - you boil it down enough and the logic is “I don’t want to sell this because others will judge me”, which stems directly from others judgement, being my entire point.
You can claim “Valve doesn’t want to sell it for moral reasons”, but they’re not a moral body, they’re a corporation - their only job is to earn money.
The more people feel they can dictate what a retailer sells, the worse it gets for all of us, and retailers choosing to drop things rather than “roc k the boat” is a problem.
Sure, this is a pretty repugnant case, but the slippery slope starts somewhere.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
You know slippery slope is a fallacy right? The “slippery slope” can also stop anywhere.
notgivingmynametoamachine@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I regret my short hand of “slippery slope” but it’s not a coincidence that less than 6 months ago payment processors used their influence to get a game pulled from steam and now all of a sudden steam is self censoring based on content.
Whatever the non-fallacious version of “there’s an escalating pattern here” is what’s happening.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 59 minutes ago
Do the other stores hosting the game have the same payment processors?