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Gamers Bombard Visa & MasterCard With Emails and Calls Over Steam and itch.io Censorship
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~~I've never bought a porn game nor ever played one, but I just think it's stupid that such large companies fold to a lobby organization and start moderating the sale of products.~~ ~~Christian fundamentalist activists are persistent and organized, and it's effective. I think it's bad how a small minority is able to dictate the lives of other people and I like how people get riled up because I hope it will remind the people in charge of those large corporations that catering to extremists is a bad decision.~~
~~TLDR: Idgaf about the games, I just hate it when religious zealots dictate the lives of others.~~
EDIT: I might have been wrong about "Collective Shout" and didn't look into it enough before forming an opinion.
EDIT 2: Yeah, I don't think "Incest Daughters BDSM" deserves saving. They seem to be primarily targeting rape and incest games, and I can definitely understand that you want to see rape games gone from if you're an organisation like this. Article However, I still don't know how accurate their own article is, I might check out more sources/perspectives when I have time.
EDIT 3: My initial assessment seems to be correct, a large amount of games are affected and the “policies” seem to be enforced with a disregard for accuracy. The organization also seems to be more extreme.
How about Detroit: Become Human? Because they removed that as well.
It might be because of child abuse themes and the portrayal of robot sex workers. It has been criticized before.
‘Detroit: Become Human’: Exploitative and Tasteless
I'm not sure if I agree with this sentiment. I feel like it was mostly focused on the way Kara goes out of her way to protect Alice, but I can kind of understand how someone else could see this differently.
I truly could not care less what they claim their reasoning is. I've played the game. I know how it handles things like child abuse.
This is not a game that should even be included in any conversation about censorship. The idea is fucking absurd.
I'm wondering how long it's going to take to revert this policy