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[Steve Holt]

Hell hath no fury like a gamer scorned.

 

[Ozzie666]

Hell hath no fury like a gamer scorned.

Share holders have a lot more fury.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

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[Gameplay Gods Bless]

do they think we're an idiot or something? the main problem is that its not illegal in the first place. Incest between 2 jpeg on fictional media is not Illegal.

Certainly not in the US, fiction is fiction there. I know places like Canada do not believe fiction is fiction and do explicitly disallow some types of fictional content

 

[RCX]

Who could have predicted that degenerate gooners would be the ones to save the world?

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Who could have predicted that degenerate gooners would be the ones to save the world?

Everyone is degenerate just some people refuse to hide it. Stand up for yourself and be proud!

 

[Sakura]

Depictions of what would be illegal in real life in porn are generally considered illegal and obscene in the US.

Same with even fantasy IRL porn, hence the endless use of "step-" relatives and not real relatives. Or generic "teen" instead of having an adult actress just claim they are underage.

Just because nobody is currently going out of their way to police something and arrest people doesn't mean it isn't illegal. All the more legit porn sites scrubbed a ton of their material a couple years back because US lawmakers threatened them.

Not really. For example last year in Indiana there was a case where a guy was charged for having hentai featuring underage characters, but was found not guilty as it is protected by the first amendment (https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/in-court-of-appeals/116613118.html)
I think it depends on how realistic it looks though. Kind of a grey area.
And I am pretty sure stuff like fictional incest would never be a legal issue (in the US at least). After all, the laws on incest are about having sex with your own immediate family member, not on you seeing other (fictional) family members getting it on.
The reason underage stuff gets targetted is because child pornography itself is obviously illegal, so the question is whether fictional versions of that are ok or not (and depends heavily on country). I'm pretty sure Steam already doesn't allow that stuff? Though there could be stuff that is questionable, I dunno.

From my understanding, the reason there is so much "step" stuff in porn games, is because places like Patreon specifically forbid it, not because of legal reasons.

 

[freemandos]

I guess they'll sue Collective Shout for defamation. Oh, wait, they won't.

 

[BlackTron]

First, before we continue, we just have to clear one thing up: we didn't do this.

Now that that's out of the way, side note: we did it

 

[yurinka]

It isn't just Mastercard and Visa, Paypal, Stripe and others (including banks) did the same in a coordinated way even if they are supposed to be rivals. And isn't affecting just Steam and Itch.io, but also porn sites, crowdfunding sites and generative AI training websites.

And happened more or less at the same time the UK mandated personal verification with camera to use NSFW websites and the USA released that new law about theorically revenge porn and non-consentual AI deepfakes.

So yes, these payment management companies are part of the issue, but seems that it comes from above them. There's not a lot of people who could mandate Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and others to do so and maybe also force UK and USA goverment to do laws like that.

And isn't a random retarded feminist group like Collective Shout that nobody knew about them before this.

 

[IFireflyl]

Neither Steam nor itch.io singled out Mastercard, Visa, or anyone else. They used the term"payment processors". That usually refers to banks.

Banks/financial institutions are not payment processors. Payment processors are the ones reading and transmitting card data to the banks. When you use your debit card at a Point of Sale (say, Walmart), the payment processor owns that Point of Sale terminal that reads your card and transmits the transaction to the card networks, who then routes the transaction to the financial institution.

Payment Processor Examples

• Fiserv/First Data
• WorldPay
• Adyen
• Stripe
• Chase Paymentech (owned by JPMorgan Chase, which is a bank)
• Square

Card Network Examples

• Visa
• MasterCard
• American Express
• Discover

While some financial institutions, such as JPMorgan Chase, have their own payment processor, the overwhelming majority of financial institutions do not handle their own payment processing.

Either way, your point about Visa and MasterCard not being singled out was valid.

 

[Griffon]

 

[DaciaJC]

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Baghdad Bob

 

[poppabk]

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Thats Comical Ali. The Iraqi Information Minister during the gulf war who would constantly appear on TV making completely outlandish claims of Iraqi victories.

 

[ReyBrujo]

Coming soon, action and horror games ban. Next time pay attention when the mommies come with a complain, Gabe (?)