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Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there

Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from therehttps://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/australian-anti-porn-group-claims-responsibility-for-steams-new-censorship-rules-in-victory-against-porn-sick-brain-rotted-pedo-gamer-fetishists-and-things-only-get-weirder-from-there/Open linkView original on lemmy.dbzer0.com
fedia.io

Here's something I've noticed. Whenever someone describes a group, individual, activity, or anything else with more than 2 negative adjectives in a row, they're probably saying something deeply unstable. This is one of those times.

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lemmy.world

It's a Christian fascist org, so there's a 100% likelihood of mental illness.

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There's nothing feminist about them, they coopted the term to try and lend themself legitimacy. They're feminist in the same way that DPRK is democratic.

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CXORAreply
aussie.zone

I don't see anything religious on their website. Is this disclosed somewhere im missing?

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Go to the affiliate or supporters page and have a deep dive into each of the members and their past associations or activities. It's not on the front page, but there's religion written all over it.

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sh.itjust.works

I take offense to this generalization. When I call someone an honorless gormless bitch ass motherfucker I'm relieving stress so when fists start flying I ain't blinded by my own anger, my instability is only mildly correlated to my verbosity.

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fedia.io

Let me sit you down when I say this... but if you're getting into fights even after relieving stress... it either doesn't work, or you're behaving in an unstable manner.

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Oh no fights are fun. Tis the curse of my kin, seriously damned near every man on the German side of my family treats fights like a fun time waster. Not saying it's not instability just that my verbosity is perpetual regardless of my mood or actions, well unless I am physically exhausted then I communicate with a handful of words like a caveman.

Also just cause I'm somewhat calm going into a fight doesn't mean that the person I hurled insults at is.

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I like how the language is ‘claims responsibility.’ You know. Like terrorist groups do after an attack

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me watching clearly adult humans doing consentual sex things

some religious zealot chud: this makes you a pedo somehow

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DosDudereply
retrolemmy.com

Trump doing actual pedo and rape shit and being a convicted felon

Religious zealot chuds in the US: "there's no proof"

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joenforcerreply
midwest.social

This comment and many like it are a product of only reading the headline. Also shame on the authors for the ragebait headline.

The tweet the quote comes further classifies that they're talking about games that include rape, incest, and/or child sex abuse. I'm not sure if people are just knee-jerk reacting to headlines without understanding what's actually happening, or if they are legitimately upset that rape fantasy games are being removed. In both cases, you're stating that you are vocally in support of rape media, which is not OK.

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Sure, that's the plausible deniability reasoning. But the end result, whether you agree with the on the surface reasoning or not, is the removal of all adult media whether or not it is offending. This coupled with the lumping in of LGBT issues with Adult media (and often lumping in with egregious media like rape and abuse fantasy) means that the end result is removal of adult games AND games which feature LGBT characters and storylines.

and uh, if you actually did read my comment, I did say consenting. me saying I enjoy content where clear adults are consentually enjoying sex is not endorsing rape fantasy games, and is a bit of a Twitter ass conclusion to come to.

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joenforcerreply
midwest.social

and uh, if you actually did read my comment, I did say consenting. me saying I enjoy content where clear adults are consentually enjoying sex is not endorsing rape fantasy games, and is a bit of a Twitter ass conclusion to come to.

The article you commented on is explicitly referencing media where consent cannot be given. So, I'm not sure why you commented about consenting adults in the first place, because that had nothing to do with the topic.

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Because that's the net result of their actions: removal of consentual media and grouping of consentual media consumers with pedophilia.

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lemmy.world

I'm sick of religious sex freaks forcing others to adhere to their puritan fetishes

We need to ban organized religion

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MrNobodyreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Sure, but since orgaanised religions can't help to force others to live by their standards, they need to get out of the way. I'm fine with people needing a comfort measure, even if its in the form of an invisibile friend. Whatever helps people sleep at night. However, when they try to force their ideals down everybody elses throat thats a big no.

So, since they can't 'live and let live' they need to go the way of the dodo, fuck off, and leave the rest of society alone.

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Gsus4reply
mander.xyz

Meh, I consider religions as political movements. When they go crazy fundamentalist, try to take over and become destructive, sure, shut them down.

But not just based on their future potential to turn destructive, that can happen to any ideology if the conditions are right.

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Barrymorereply
sh.itjust.works

But what undeniable good thing comes from religion? It's not just that they have the potential for destruction and hate, it's that those are the only possible outcomes

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Gsus4reply
mander.xyz

What undeniable good thing comes from politics?

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Barrymorereply
sh.itjust.works

We could get unions, consumer protections, housing and food and other necessities guaranteed. We don't, but we could. Politics is just trying to solidify how things are run. Obviously easily can be used for abuse, but can be used for good. Religion from the first step is to tell you how bad of a person you are and how to resolve it: join a cult, deny personal responsibility for anything and put that on whatever deity or subject for hate at the time, all your answers should be sought through your religion and not outside sources

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You're making a lot of value judgements without a whole lot of evidence to back them up. My point is perfect atheist: religious movements are a type of politics with certain aims (not exactly unions, but incidentally communion, charity, etc). It is you who are saying that religion is somehow a special phenomenon who puts them above other ways to organize society...for the worse. Maybe you think that it is because it is irrational and metaphysical. There is plenty of metaphysics in the form of utopias (heaven) in politics, saints/prophets (cult of personality). You just say that bad comes out of religion, but not out of politics...yeah...ok.

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A tolerant society can not tolerate intolerance. One side will attempt to "just live", but the intolerant side is incapable of "letting live", and they will not stop until they replace tolerance with their system of hate.

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Warl0k3reply
lemmy.world

Ew, when did we get reddit's cringy appeals to the audience talking past the original poster in an ineffectual attempt to throw shade?

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Honytawkreply
feddit.nl

The majority of the secular world are atheists. Don't pretend like it is some small subsection just because you live in a bubble of whatever religion you were born into.

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stepanreply
lemmy.ca

Agnostics. Not necessarily atheists. And they sure as hell aren't sam harris type dickheads about it like this lemmy thread has.

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Agnostic sounds like a sub-category of atheism like it is with different beliefs under theism. Ie. It's Theism vs Atheism, and then everything below the two. If you don't believe or don't know if you should believe, then you're not really a theist, making it atheist.

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Bro I don't believe in God either. To be honest sometimes I wish I did.

Regardles my problem isn't with atheism but with specifcally Reddit Atheism

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Warl0k3reply
lemmy.world

Atheism has never been used as the justification for a genocide - can any major religion claim the same? It's obviously an extreme example, but at the same time it's not entirely unreasonable to feel superior when comparisons like that are so easy to make.

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lemmy.zip

Hold up, all this shit because of an extremist group, *in Australia, where half the M games on the market already can't be sold, is driving global payment processor behavior?!?

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feddit.org

Hold up, all this shit because of an extremist group

🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀 always has been

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Those are pretty well known TERFs in Australia, I've not heard of them in the context of anti-porn shite before though that tracks for TERFs generally, but it's a safe assumption they're also probably pretty well connected with the worst people in the US gov-corp ecosystem.

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Follow the lesser amount of money they'll be making or did you knee-jerk this response?

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aussie.zone

Collective Shout claim it’s about harm reduction, but then push an agenda that functionally amounts to moral panic.

Their approach is identical in logic to the “GTA causes school shootings” hysteria: loud, pearl-clutching, and utterly unmoored from data.

If Collective Shout want to argue these games cause harm, then show us the harm. Not correlation. Not outrage. Not hypothetical downstream consequences. Show causation. Peer-reviewed. Reproducible.

Otherwise, they’re just moralizing bullies using the banking system as a cudgel.

On top of this, they might actually be harming their own cause. The catharsis hypothesis poses that sexual fantasy enactment might reduce risk of real world harm.

The logic is simple: suppressing a compulsion doesn't eliminate it. It just bottles up until it explodes. Redirect it into a safe outlet, and it becomes manageable.

The only reason this research isn't cited more often is because it's politically radioactive. Nobody wants to admit that it's better to let a gooners jerk off, than to escalate under repression.

The burden of proof SHOULD be on Collective Shout to provide a reasonable argument which supports their claim that censorship will reduce real world harm.

Current working theory in psychology: it doesn't. Emerging theory suggests: they're shooting themselves (and potential rape victims) in the foot.

The real solution to real-world harm involves empathy, autonomy and education.

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Zozanoreply
aussie.zone

Furthermore...

Their decision to target the payment processors - not the developers, or itch.io, or steam, is some of the most cowardly and authoritarian things I've ever seen in the gaming space.

It's economic coercion; a playbook used by religious bigots and authoritarians for decades. Financial censorship by proxy. IMO: they should fuck off.

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Even Furthermore...

Wanna censor it? Good fucking idea /s

Shoving that shit into the shadows doesn’t make it go away, it just makes it untraceable, unmoderated, and unaccountable.

If you care even remotely about preventing harm, you don’t force taboo communities off the grid. You keep them where they can be seen, tracked, and contained... preferably behind legal firewalls, age gates, and content filters.

If you push them into the dark web... then congratulations... you’ve just built a Petri dish for escalation, radicalization, and actual predation.

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I believe they're a religious group under the guise of feminism and child protection. If you look at their affiliate page, they list quite a few religious groups.

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blarglereply
sh.itjust.works

TERFs are as feminist as Nazis are socialist and North Korea is democratic. It's in the acronym; that's it.

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Sadly from my experiences with feminist groups, TERFs have historically been the norm not the exception.

You should really look into what the Daughters of Bilitis were up to, and books like the The Transsexual Empire. A book I cannot say the full name of for it contains a slur.

Historically feminist groups have attacked transgender women and gay men for "Infringing upon what it means to be a woman."

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sh.itjust.works

In what way is Feminism a religion? Do feminists pray to Lilith? Is there a Woman Church? Is International Women's Day the Christmas of this religion?

Think before you say silly things.

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Feminism increasingly displays an in-group out-group dynamic characteristic of religions.

They're increasingly dogmatic with their teachings, a feminist will spout party lines without thinking about them precisely the way a christian will.

A god hasn't emerged yet afaik but a canon of saints is emerging, to include Marie Curie and Amelia Earhart.

Unironically yes, who else has any use for International Women's Day.

They've even got unhinged extremists, like these assholes in Australia.

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aceshighreply
lemmy.world

We have examples today of the real harm of this, like in Afghanistan. It’s interesting that western societies are overall less religious as ever, yet religion keeps getting shoved down our throats… and winning.

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sh.itjust.works

If I'm not mistaken it's not a religious group doing it because Jesus, it's a feminist group doing it because they blame porn for the existence of transpeople

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Porn and prostitution do have historical correlation with the existence of trans people. Namely that when we're kept from all other means of making money these industries help us continue to afford food and shelter.

That's one of the things that pisses me off most about all this. By calling us pornographic they're calling for us to be forced back into an exploitative relationship with the porn and sex industries.

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fedia.io

This whole thing smacks of the "anyone who has a sexual proclivity I claim not to share must have all sexual proclivities I claim not to share" logic. i.e. the logic that got gay people flagged as child molesters back in the bad old days. And occasionally still today.

Such logic might actually be rooted in projection, which is a deeply disturbing thought. Deeply closeted people desperately clinging to heteronormativity and traditional gender roles because they think that if they don't they they'll do something abhorrent. Maybe even to someone who can't consent. Or they already have and they desperately want to hide away from it.

Yes, for the love of all that's holy and secular too, ban the games with apparent child sexual abuse. Children can't consent. Leave everything else the hell alone.

I don't even play video games with sexual themes, but I do play ones that contain 18+ violence. I assume those will be next on the chopping block.

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Sponsored by Visa 🤔

Thanks for saying it. What kind of fucking parent puts their kids on display in an event that will invite actual pedophiles to start actual concoctions that would cause permanent harm on them? Ah, but fictitious media that may actually help keep those urges in check needs to be removed.

And then there's the bullshit thought that a service that serves as a replacement for cash transactions can decide what I buy?

I need to get off of this fucking world.

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Digital violence causes school shootings, don't you know? Ignore the non-American rates, they don't matter.

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lemmy.ca

I expect this group is rife with paedos.

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ZeroOnereply
lemmy.world

They support Cuties & Germaine Greer who wrote The beautiful boy

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lemmy.world

"Pro life feminist"

A christian conservative group in drag,nothing to see here.

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Yep. They drive all the decent people out of anti porn feminist spaces, like the porn is misogyny subreddit. They need to be stopped.

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lemmy.blahaj.zone

Tbh, its only a matter of time before the entire organization gets doxxed and the internet does what it does.

I look forward to eating popcorn when it happens.

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No hate like christian love.

For decent, church-going women

With their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces

Thanx but No Thanx - Ministry

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lemmy.world

Are we wagering this absurdity is built on projection?

cause I'm wagering this absurdity is built on them projecting.

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lemmy.world

It always is. These are the type of folks who have that feeling of shame wash over after they bust a nut to something they "despise."

That literally all these types of groups are. They want us to feel the same shame, too. I wish folks could just keep their shit to themselves. Have rules for your own home, sure, but eat shit and rot if you think you should be able to tell me how I should live my life.

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Totally. I just mean if you don't want porn or violence in your home more power to ya, but keep your rules to yourself. Let me live and enjoy my life.

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programming.dev

OK now I am not one to lob accusations without evidence, but for any of you kind government agents or AIs reading this, let’s say from anywhere within the Five Eyes since we’re talking about Australia:

We have another fanatical religious conservative organization here that is publicly labeling opposition groups pedos. You know how this has trended in the past. Keep an eye on these people.

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We have another fanatical religious conservative organization here that is publicly labeling opposition groups pedos.

projection. they want a monopoly on skeezing on the kiddos.

for some reason people will bend themselves into pretzels to give religious people a pass on buggery. here in washington state, we passed a law mandating the reporting of abused children. conservatives and religious types want to keep these children in their abuse.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/07/18/judge-blocks-wa-requirement-for-priests-to-report-child-abuse-disclosed-in-confession/

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Don't be silly. Government surveillance isn't for the protection of the people, it's for the protection of the government.

Has the NSA ever caught a terrorist with their massively invasive privacy violating programs, spending the money on that instead of making people better to not become terrorists? Ask the NSA, they'll tell you they haven't stopped a single one.

Government surveillance is in service to these people, why else would they care about the privacy and consent of adults in their free time?

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No, no, they don't ignore them. They train with them so that chat gpt is fully capable of acting like it doesn't want AI models to train on its output, if you ask it to.

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Someone should check this groups computer ls and closets because they are projecting and those fuckers should have no impact on what us Americans or any other country wants to buy. This needs to be reversed Asap.

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mander.xyz

I truly don't understand how Visa/MasterCard/etc can be pressured. They are basically infrastructure.

What's someone going to do, stop using credit cards if they don't stop a store that person doesn't even patronize from selling morally hazardous goods?

I don't get how these campaigns are even effective.

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The thing is they are American corporations who care to much about their public image. I would be highly suprised if they national payment platforms would also accept this. (ideal/bankcontant/wero/etc)

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They pressure payment processors through reputation damage and regulatory threats - these companies are terrified of being associated with anything that could trigger banking regulations or get them labeled as "enabling" problematic content in the media, its purely a risk management desicion for them.

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Probably just worried Trump will over regulate them if they don’t fall in line with the Christian Radicals.

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plythreply
feddit.org

Supposedly there was a ruling in California that made them responsible.

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Unfortunately not. It was mentioned in a lemmy comment.

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RedFrank24reply
lemmy.world

That's because 90% of cryptocurrency marketing consists of "THINK OF THE GAAAAAAINS YOU CAN MAKE!" instead of "You can use this to buy things without government censorship".

The entire crypto industry has based itself around being a speculative asset, not a currency.

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sh.itjust.works

Which is really unfortunate. If you avoid the most popular coins (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc), you avoid most of the scams and speculation and end up with a decent currency that respects your privacy and has low fees.

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Yup, Monero is probably the best option. I've heard good things about Z-cash, and Bitcoin can work on the lightning network.

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sh.itjust.works

Monero is perhaps the best option imo. Here's the official page about it, but basically:

  • not profitable to mine, so most miners are enthusiasts who want the coin to succeed
  • privacy-focused - basically creates a ton of fake transactions to mislead snoopers
  • relatively popular - seems to be the most popular coin recommended by privacy enthusiasts (e.g. Mental Outlaw, he even gives a discount on his store for Monero)
  • not popular among speculators - they mostly stick to the big ones (BTC and ETH), as well as new startup coins
  • low cost transactions, fairly short transaction window

It's far from ubiquitous, but it's popular enough that if a place accepts any crypto, there's a good chance they accept Monero as well.

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Honytawkreply
feddit.nl

Is it really the best option when no business uses them?

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Some do, which is a lot more than GNU Taler. I don't know of another digital payment system that has more usage that isn't dominated by a handful of companies.

Here are some examples of things you can buy today w/ Monero:

It's far from ubiquitous, but it is being accepted today. If any of those places interest you, I recommend putting a small amount of money into Monero and trying it out.

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emmy67reply
lemmy.world

Not when exchanges still govern taking money out. They are businesses like everything else and will be just as risk averse

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sh.itjust.works

It's pretty easy to switch between cryptocurrencies, so they can surely find an exchange that is friendly to their business. That's way better than the credit card situation where there are only four major processors--Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express--and only two of those actually matter.

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emmy67reply
lemmy.world

None of what you said addresses the problem I mentioned.

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sh.itjust.works

Then I guess I don't understand your problem.

Payment processors like Visa and Mastercard control a huge chunk of the market, which gives them a lot of say in what transactions are allowed. Even if you avoid credit, most debit cards go through those two companies, so they can restrict what transactions you can make.

With cryptocurrencies, there's no restriction at the point of sale. Your problem seems to be that converting crypto to fiat could be problematic, and they'd potentially be stuck with "useless" currency. My point is that's a much easier problem to solve:

  • if their exchange stops converting a given currency, they can convert to one they do accept
  • if their exchange bans their account (e.g. due to the nature of their business), they can switch exchanges
  • there are ATMs that dispense cash for crypto
  • if no exchange will work with them, they can make direct exchanges with regular people (i.e. "launder" the money)
  • they can also spend the currency directly

There are a ton of options to convert crypto to fiat, there are far fewer to select a different fiat payment processor.

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emmy67reply
lemmy.world

I'll bet.

R placing a bad system with a worse system does not solve the problem

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You don't need to use an exchange. You can use a local wallet to store your funds, and then no company controls who/where you send it to.

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One benefit to payment processing for crypto is that there's little in the way of material limitations on processing payments. The blockchain for a given coin already exists, your job as a processor is primarily to convert those on-chain transactions into and out of other currencies. Only requiring intervention at the point of entering or exiting dollars to and from the system changes a lot of the dynamics.

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lemmy.today

Ah yes, now anyone who enjoys wanking themselves off in private, is also a Pedo, because they ran out of mean words.

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lemmy.world

It's been wild watching that word lose every last bit of meaning over the past few years

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Warl0k3reply
lemmy.world

Almost like it's the goal. It's not, they're just hacky idiots, but it's almost like that...

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fedia.io

Oml, trying to ban Eminem and Snoop Dogg from Australia? Really? Fuck did Eminem actually do in the last 15 years? Snoop, never really listened to him, can't think of anything he did (in relation to women). They managed to stop Tyler, the Creator from touring in 2015? They're doing the dumbest shit. Going after sexualization of women isn't going to help any actual problems. Pathetic.

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sopuli.xyz

Judging from their description ("pro-life feminists") I bet they're using objectification as a cover to push their regressive ideals. When it comes to rap there's a disproportionate amount of hate towards it from these people, could be as simple as that.

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fedia.io

Of course. I've listened to quite a bit of Eminem, more than is reasonable. There's like 5 songs that I'd say were actually that crazy, mostly about his wife, and mostly 20+ years ago. I'd say it's probably something to do with racism, actually hating rap usually does.

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The amount of times I've seen Eminem counted as a black artist isn't common enough to be depressing, but it's alarmingly more than 0.

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There's a few groups like this in Australia, unfortunately.

Australia didn't even have an R18+ rating for games until 2013 (R18+ is similar to AO or NC-17 in the USA). Before then, all games with a higher rating than MA15+ were illegal in Australia. Many games had an Australia-specific version with blood/gore reduced, some things edited out, etc. to reduce the rating. The original release of GTA4 in Australia was heavily censored.

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mander.xyz

That is so dumb. How would such a small group have that much pull? It seems like gooners would vastly outnumber them.

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Wispy2891reply
lemmy.world

In the 90s, in my country, a single person made a webpage stating that Microsoft minesweeper promotes war and violence, so since windows 95 if the Windows locale is set to my language, minesweeper becomes "flower field" and you have to find flowers instead of mines

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Soupreply
lemmy.world

And if you step on the flower you DIE.

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Jarixreply
lemmy.world

That sounds like the whatever version of engrish and I love it

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lemmy.world

The same group who complained Detroit Become Human is bad for glorifying child abuse and women abuse. Yet supported Cuties....

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lemmy.today

Bro, have you seen e621 lately? That place needs quite a lot of pruning. I don't know what the admins are doing, it went too far in the other direction!

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very similar to rule 34 in terms of content. I haven't been on it in ages tho so I can't speak for it as of late. if I had to guess it's probably had an influx of AI slop that's causing issues, other online image boards have been suffering from that as well.

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lemmy.world

The best part is that for the article Valve supplied a picture of Blue Scout standing speechless in front of pornographic pictures of his mom, as the punch line of one of the best "your mom" jokes of all time.

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reddthat.com

Its more perverted to want to control what other people are jacking to than it is to jack it to porn games. Keep your perversions to yourselves weirdos.

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This is the exact thing I've always thought about homophobes. It's pretty gay to get obsessed about what other men do with their dicks.

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Anyone have a guess as to why these companies don't just cut off the country being used to spearhead these attempts? Like, half the popular games are blocked already. And setting this precedent will likely lead to further fuckery in the future. Is Australlia really that profitable that it's worth the current and future hassle?

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LainTrainreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

It's got a kid robot in it that's abused. Not sexually afaik. But it's definitely not pornographic, it's literally the driving force of one of the plotlines and causes an android to rebel and kill it's owner - the abuser.

Let me repeat: the game is literally so anti-child-abuse - it makes the plot happen.

This whole thing is so stupid. You give these types of people an inch they take a mile.

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sh.itjust.works

I really hate this logic people have nowadays "We can't show an evil character doing evil things, because that's obviously meant to be in support of the evil things. No I don't know what an antagonist is, I don't understand story structure!"

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I'd say that it's overrated and a bit mid. But I also have the ability to judge such things unlike the profligates pushing for such bans, who I would only take their opinions into account while lashing them to a cross. Just one cross mind you, I have patience and am not going to waste energy building more than one the anticipation for their crucifixions will drive despair.

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Really goes to show people. It doesn’t matter the religion. They all are bullshit machines for people to act superior than others. Fuck these twat waffles.

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piefed.zip

fucking fuck fuck fuckers , if they wanted to ban then they should have contacted to steme why payment providers bruh

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Phoenixzreply
lemmy.ca

Because they want to apply their rules to everyone, it's the entire point for religious assholes

Fuck all religions

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Later I need to make a meme where the soldier takes the hits for the child, the child being Visa/Mastercard

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discuss.online

Honestly, my steam algorithm started showing me alot of that garbage out of nowhere about a year ago and I had to keep telling it to stop. Like to each their own but some of that shit was pretty gross. I'm not complaining it's gone.

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cosmoreply
lemmy.world

There's a toggle for the store that hides porn games. They're not visible unless you yourself actively click on it saying you want to see them. The default is to keep them hidden. The feed also adapts to what you click on. If you see garbage it's on you.

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That second part is kinda annoying though. It doesn't know the difference between a view because of curiosity and one because of actual interest.

It's what ruined the YouTube suggestions for me. I liked being able to do completely unrelated and random dives. Now it's just a collection of videos related to previous ones I've watched, even when I'm not logged in and have viewing history turned off. If I want to watch another chess video, I know how to use the search function. That's how I found them the first time.

Though steam does also have a "stop showing me games like this" where it gives options about what you mean by "this".

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I've learned about the toggle since then. I know for a fact I didn't click on any gooner-bait though lol

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Groups like this never say "Mission Accomplished" and go home, they will escalate until you are sent to jail for playing Mortal Kombat or GTA

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sh.itjust.works

Anyone want to argue why porn video games are a benefit for society, or even a single persons health?

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chiliedoggreply
lemmy.world

It's not about porn games. It's about allowing third-party private interests to engage in censorship.

If Valve were to ban porn games from being sold on Steam because they find them distasteful, I wouldn't have a problem with this. But it wasn't Valve's decision. It was the payment processors who did it on behalf of interests that are apparently allowed to determine what is permissible on other people's platforms.

That's not okay.

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So this is basically the same as the argument that drugs shouldnt be illegal? Is this just purely based on freedom?

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I couldn't care less... I care about what will be the next thing someone unaffected by me consuming it, would ban it and deprive me of it

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No, but you might want to take a step back from that ledge advice a steep much huddy hill.

Frankly I think a lot of modern games are fucked up in their portrayal of the human body, and those relationship sim dress up games are kinda gross.

But I don't think this should be too to credit card companies to unilaterally decide.

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mander.xyz

I would say they aren't as bad as alcohol and gambling, which are pervasive...some of them are just...art...some aren't :D I could ask you the same about lots of other things, from music to literature. I just don't like book burning. If someone put their effort into creating something that they thought was worth creating, why is it up to anyone to ban it for any adult that wants to see it?

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sh.itjust.works

If someone wants it then they should be allowed it right? Great moral system you have there. Call it the "why not?" gospel.

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