Thegamer.com: Steam's Content Removal Could Be A Wider Consequence Of Project 2025

This. Imagine taking stigma away from looking at porn for kids.... kids would be opening watching it in class or with their buds. Serious sexual deviancy. Yeah I remeber being a kid/teenager too, but I also remember it wasn't that easy. It took 1 hour to download a naked lady pic from a bbs on a 2400 baud modem. (you usually saved those 240p 256 color images on a floppy, lol). Before that you had the stash of magazines you found in the woods, or the one you stole from your friend's dad's work breakroom and kept under your matress. Watching scrambled playboy channel and seeing them breasts show up on screen. Then getting that free week.... that they actually showed the channel without the lines fuzzing it (that was something else...lol)... Watching your neighbor's older sister and friends at their pool with your binoculars...oh I think i said too much.

Maybe that was just me that was horn dog, but i doubt it. Thing is having to jump through hoops and all that made it more of a thrill. What thrill is there if it is easy to get. It really shouldn't be. There is a reason every country's birthrate is lower after the advent of the internet. I am sure porn is part of that. Why try to get in a relationship and get laid if you can stroke one out to porn hub any time of day on your personal hand held window to it.

Come on, that first example is hyperbole. Millions of European teens did not spontaneously burst into flames whenever they saw tits on TV or in a newspaper stand, just because they didn't have nearly as difficult a time accessing nudity or sexual content as their North American peers. Not all European countries are exactly the same, and U.S. influence has actually made Europe more restrictive in recent years than in decades past (see the United Kingdom's actions right now), but they do tend to have a culture that is far less ashamed of exposure to nudity in media and public spaces than the U.S. Which is arguably healthier for everyone, in the long run, rather than defending an excessively prohibitionist and restrictive view.

The problem is they don't want to merely add hoops for children and nothing else. They're also adding hoops for actual adults and making it harder for sexual content websites to run their business, both financially and technologically. It's not a good faith effort. These are anti-porn extremists who, while shielding their efforts with the same old tired "think of the children" rhetoric, are ultimately hardline puritans.
 
This right here. Of course there are some people on the right and left who want pron banned, but the same people writing this article, especially that site were all for censorship and pro cheering on uglifying female characters. If its just pedo shit ban away, it shouldnt be allowed anyway.
All the proof you need to push against it is that it already went further than the incest porn games, to effecting horror titles for gore as well.

Slipper slope isn't a fallacy at that point, it's an observation.
 
he would have made sex unpleasurable like it is for cats

Curb Your Enthusiasm Judging You GIF
 
As people don't want to say outright the facts of the matter are that Collective Shout is an Australian conservative Christian activist group and many of the people backing the current US administration are Christian nationalists who have a more radical position if anything. As for if all pornography should be banned or not so Christ knows which people should be saved when the rapture happens, I will stay politically neutral.
Pure bullshit. Collective Shout is a leftist feminist group.

Their own site description:

"Collective Shout is a grassroots campaigns movement against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls.

Collective Shout is for anyone concerned about the increasing pornification of culture and the way its messages have become entrenched in mainstream society, presenting distorted and dishonest ideas about women and girls, sexuality and relationships.

Since our launch in 2010, we have achieved many wins: billboards objectifying women pulled down, sexualised childrens clothing withdrawn from sale, sexually violent games banned, Andrew Tate's pimping courses removed from Spotify, and an age verification trial underway to help protect kids from exposure to porn. Last year saw a record 34 wins.
 
Pure bullshit. Collective Shout is a leftist feminist group.

Their own site description:

"Collective Shout is a grassroots campaigns movement against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls.

Collective Shout is for anyone concerned about the increasing pornification of culture and the way its messages have become entrenched in mainstream society, presenting distorted and dishonest ideas about women and girls, sexuality and relationships.

Since our launch in 2010, we have achieved many wins: billboards objectifying women pulled down, sexualised childrens clothing withdrawn from sale, sexually violent games banned, Andrew Tate's pimping courses removed from Spotify, and an age verification trial underway to help protect kids from exposure to porn. Last year saw a record 34 wins.
I've always rejected the label conservative, but I'm most certainly far right. Socially at least. Really I'm the opposite of 00s Libertarian bros. Far right social, fiscally fairly liberal. I don't have any problems with this mission statement.

What about this statement do you think makes it left wing? I see them as being far more accepting of public lewdness and other such stances.

I don't even know which sentence in your post is supposed to be bad. Maybe some of you guys have noticed, but wanting this type of content to be jettisoned from Earth is getting very popular, with no signs of slowing down. It'll be interesting to see where we are in a year and how the boundaries have shifted.
 
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Project 2025 can't hurt you, I know they said it thousands of times during the campaign, but it's not a thing. Project 2025 was 900 pages of thoughts and ideas, varying from radical to common sense. Meaning there is no agenda, just uninformed sheep.

As for section 230, it won't pass, just a overcorrection that is trying to bully distributors into policing their platforms.
 
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When I bought my house about 3 years ago, I discovered that the previous (and only) owner had left a gigantic box of vintage playboys in the attic.

When the digital economy collapses and we go back to the barter system, I'm gonna be living like a king.
 
Religious zealots will ALWAYS lose this fight. Human beings are horny as fuck.

You are dumber than shit if you think this has anything to do with religious people or protecting kids
They want internet 2.0 with digital ID and a CCP social score-like program
Those are the same elite godless fuckers who ruined movies and games with their progressive shit
 
If the last 10 years taught me anything, the hardline "anti censorship of ANYTYHING" compulsion has not served us well in the West. Looking at the countries with a very bad social trajectory, I can't help but notice that hardline censorship in the right places could have saved them. I think some of us are so bereft of hope that they can't even see a person with their ideas coming into state level power, therefore they push to limit state level power to the point that it's completely useless to protect them from people who do not have such hangups. My brother is a big-time libertarian bro, and I ask him "when the mob is going house to house on your street, and you're hiding in the basement with your kids, will you whisper to them "At least we didn't use authoritarian means to gain power and prevent this"?
 
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That article was disingenuous as fuck. It talks about project 2025 and a guy who "spearheads" wanting to ban porn. Except it utterly fails to explain how they are related to Collective Shout, beyond having the vaguely similar premise of not like porn? The Gamer is such a rag.
 
Yes, but for best results you should build those fences around your own home and adequate to your own situation. Parents lazily expecting the government to do their job by universally imposing widespread age verification with cumbersome technical or financial requirements (and also potentially or actually exposing the personal data of adults in the process) is a sign of irresponsibility in my opinion. If it was a simple and easy form of verification, that would be different, but it isn't. It is meant to be cumbersome.
It's not meant to be cumbersome, where did you get that, and I believe that they industry will quickly come up with ways make it less cumbersome to cut costs and over time it will be even quick and painless. It's only cumbersome now because the requirements are new, and no minds have been put to solving that problem yet.
 
That article was disingenuous as fuck. It talks about project 2025 and a guy who "spearheads" wanting to ban porn. Except it utterly fails to explain how they are related to Collective Shout, beyond having the vaguely similar premise of not like porn? The Gamer is such a rag.

The connections are about as loose as it gets
 
It's not meant to be cumbersome, where did you get that, and I believe that they industry will quickly come up with ways make it less cumbersome to cut costs and over time it will be even quick and painless. It's only cumbersome now because the requirements are new, and no minds have been put to solving that problem yet.

Age verification laws have been sweeping the country the year, as states push to require social media platforms and adult-oriented websites to card their users. Rather than check IDs, some major porn platforms have simply been pulling out of states where these laws are enacted.

"We're doing it from the back door. We're starting with the kids," Vaught said. "We'd have a national ban on pornography if we could, right? So, like, we would have, you know, the porn companies being investigated for all manner of human rights abuses."

A national ban on porn would, of course, run up against the First Amendment. So savvy anti-porn activists have taken to pushing age verification laws instead.

"We came up with an idea on pornography to make it so that the porn companies bear the liability for the underage use, as opposed to the person who visits the website [having to] certify that 'I am 18," Vought told the undercover Centre for Climate Reporting staffers. "We've got a number of states that are passing this and then you know what happens is the porn company says 'We're not going to do business in your state'—which, of course, is entirely what we were after."


The point isn't to regulate these companies in good faith and keep them in operation. It might be what you want, but it's not what the politicians and activists want.

It's all meant to force some or most of them out of those states, as a "back door" ban on porn. Which would be a lot more difficult to get past the courts.
 
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