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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io (www.theguardian.com)
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Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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[–] Potatar@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

How can you know a game is LGBTQ+ if they don't talk about sex/gender? They look like normal humans to me, which differ in sexual preferences only? Example: How can you say this guy is gay without knowing his sexual preferences?

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 11 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

And how is casually referring to heterosexual relationships then not sexual?

[–] Treble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 12 hours ago

Cognitive dissonance, naturally.

[–] Potatar@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

It is, did I write something wrong which negates that?

[–] sexybenfranklin@ttrpg.network 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

There is a difference between talking about sex and gender and something being sexual. If a shopkeeper mentions his husband, I can extrapolate that he's at least bi, but that doesn't mean the game is sexual.

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 8 points 15 hours ago

In some jurisdictions, something being LGBTQ+ is inherently sexual. Places like Florida have a very psychotic view of what makes something sexual, and bans media for containing LGBTQ+ themes.

[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

While that makes sense to logical people, there is a rabid right-wing movement in the US that in intent on defining any acknowledgment of LGBTQ+ is inherently "sexual".