Anyone know if this is true or not?
Not surprised. stripe, PayPal, visa and Mastercard wouldn’t just give up to millions of dollars in fees just because a small Australian group asked for it
It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices
Submitted 10 hours ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://www.thegamer.com/steams-adult-content-ban-has-been-plotted-for-a-year/
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Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
NoodlePoint@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They’ve been playing the very long game of trying to control human behavior for centuries, not just decades. The one thing to note is that the United States began as a bunch of colonies run by ministers, and the fundies want to go back to that theocratic form of rule. That by the 19th century the temperance movement came from the dozens of Christian subsects. Yeah, they also extended it to anything that did not define as “Christian” behavior, including choice of ideologies (socialism = bad), gender (male or female = good), source of knowledge (Bible > science), beliefs (they have veiled Islamophobia), and even eating and sexual habits.
Now – based on their basic blueprint – they want to artificially induce the Second Coming by trying to get their fucking project off the ground, and impose control on everyone else.
Aedis@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
They? For centuries? Who is “they” that has been this organized for “centuries”? The fucking illuminati? The masonic order?
Maybe you’re exaggerating a bit?
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 9 minutes ago
Conservatives…? How is that not obvious? It’s clearly true.
Genius@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
pathos@lemmy.ml 5 hours ago
Going to need done links for you claims chief
Nikls94@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
First paragraph is about what I found out myself. Might add to that that they are the ones responsible for the American mindset of sex and nipples.
And yes, Jesus definitely looked like the one who would be selected for a “random intensive control not based on individual suspicion” at the airport
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 8 hours ago
Anthony Comstock.
J. Edgar Hoover.
Joseph McCarthy.
Roy Cohn.
Donald Trump.
Willful traitors all. Have it writ upon thy meager graves, “destroyed the union just so people wouldn’t masturbate.”
There’s more, I know. But those fellas are all linked.
underline960@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
So how does this tie into what’s happening now? Part of Vought and Project 2025’s plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). This law currently protects platform holders, providing immunity for any content uploaded to said platform that third-party users created.
By removing Section 230, platform holders, like Steam, would be liable for any “illegal” content uploaded to the platform, as opposed to those creating and uploading said content. If Steam were found guilty of hosting this content, the company could be hit with huge fines. Therefore, Steam, Itch, and many other platforms would likely place a blanket ban on any adult content, mitigating any risk of fines or other legal action. This, as pointed out on Reddit, would affect all forms of user-generated content, including fan art, mods, and videos, not just games themselves.
Seems like a deceptive headline.
The real takeaway is: Project 2025 guy also wants to do the platform-level censorship thing, but by removing legal protections (Section 230) instead of using payment processors.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 9 hours ago
Yeah I started to read comments on other sites and theres a LOT of speculation on this. But the actual article is pretty small. Thanks for breaking it down even further.
SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Hear me out: what if repealing section 230 would end up killing our social media monoculture, since it would be impossible for these platforms to operate. Instead, what if people had to host their content themselves, you know, like we did back in the day, when the Internet was fun.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
I don’t know when you’re talking about, but it probably wasn’t self hosting, unless you’re talking about like original internet stuff. GeoCities, for example, was not self-hosting. It was hosting your content on their platform.
4am@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
LLMs would be liable for every hallucination.
But how do you enforce it? When the internet crashes out into millions of websites again? When the people who made it happen are the people bad ones and they only go after messaging they don’t like?
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
The wild runaway success of Gmail proves that federation as a concept is currently not understood by the masses. I have lots of faith but little hope that more learning will be done on a large scale.
Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Did you read all 900 pages? I sure skimmed but didn’t read it fully. Its entirely possible.
More importantly, if we dont act collectively all over the globe to end this tide of fascism only more sensorship will come.
This is not an end but a beginning.
Cocopanda@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Oh hey. GamerGate was used by Christian fundamentalists to censor video games. How interesting. I thought they cared about Freeze Peach?
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 hours ago
I am not surprised in the slightest bit
SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 9 hours ago
Funny how all the Yanks specifically blaming this on Australia are quiet now.
Ashiggan@eviltoast.org 7 hours ago
I’m not even slightly surprised
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Can anyone ELI5 this issue for me? At first i thought they were going after those weird upskirt and borderline anime cp games. Are they going after every 18+ game now?
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They were always going to go after every 18+ game and then every queer game under the guise that it’s corrupting to youth. The fact that you’re confused about that is part of their plan.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Any examples or games they’re going after? Will they go after big studio games that are violent and adult like gta etc?
baronvonj@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Are they going after every 18+ game now?
No. They’re going after all porn.
Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Thank god they can’t do shit to TPB and its ilk since those are already illegal anyway.
Alloi@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
called it.
mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online 7 hours ago
Neigsendoig and I are not really surprised by this. We had an inkling this was part of Project 2025. In particular, they just wanted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act removed, though they were already censoring using foreign censorship partners even before P2025.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Correlation is not causation.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I don’t understand the hate, so I’ll try explaining myself and either redeem myself or dig myself deeper.
Religious zealots have been trying to ban explicit material since forever.
Saying Project 2025 caused the Steam ban is like saying Tipper Gore caused Project 2025.
_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 9 hours ago
these people have been planning on this for lot longer than a year. christians have been trying to ban video games for decades. the only reason this group hasn't come after more games is because they know they don't yet have enough politicians behind them to manage it.
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
Christians are evil
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 6 hours ago
I don’t want to come off as pedantic, but what we’re dealing with in the US is a very strange and successful breed of “Christian Nationalism.”
Essentially, it’s a belief that ultra-conservative Christianity is the only legitimate religion and that the USA is a Christian nation.
It probably comes as no surprise that these people heavily influenced the Confederacy, is strongly white-supremecist, anti-vice, etc, and has been an anathema in this country since before the states actually formed.
Christians themselves are… A problem, but not the problem. It’s these Christian nationalists. They’re loud. They want you to think all Christians believe what they do too. They also tend to drown out opposing Christian speakers by being louder than them too.
It’s one of the reasons why MLK Jr was hated so much by Hoover, by the south, etc. He was a Christian pastor, and stood against everything they did.
It’s important that we don’t group Christians in with Christian Nationalists. It’s very difficult but necessary.
rafoix@lemmy.zip 3 hours ago
Its Republicans. Don’t blame the religion. Republicans want fascism and they want to control everyone’s thoughts and behaviors because they’re wired to be subservient to authoritarians. They hate that so many of us have a mind of our own.
Zorque@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Painting with such a broad brush is how these people got to where they are now, don’t make the same mistakes they did.
fuckgod@feddit.online 7 hours ago
Mostly because of all the stupid.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 6 hours ago
All religions are evil.
Zeusz13@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The bullshit going on in the USA under the christian name is short sighted, stupid and lacks empathy. Christianity isn’t USA fundamentalism tho.
Korkki@lemmy.ml 3 hours ago
A few closeted and bitter homosexuals in denial have been…
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It will never happen on a large scale. Not as long as there is this much money to be made. I have no doubts these freaks will keep trying and make our lives harder, though.