Original link which seems to have been taken down: https://www.vice.com/en/article/group-behind-steam-censorship-policies-have-powerful-allies-and-targeted-popular-games-with-outlandish-claims/
Update from the author:
To be honest, when this story first appeared especially with Valve being the ones to announce the censorship, I thought it was sort of a nothing burger with Valve (Gave Newell having libertarian values) being pissed that someone has control over what they can sell on their store or not.
I also personally believe in the past 5-10 years that there is so much adult content and so much gateways to adult content in non adult content spaces that I personally feel something needs to be done about it.
But after seeing the group behind it, it’s basically the opposite extreme. We should be able to talk about sex and sexuality, and have media that dives into these topics without some of the extreme fetishism that is on the internet (e.g. cuckoldry, gooning).
While I feel conflicted about these games being on an extremely popular pc gaming store, the people who are trying to get it removed aren’t helping - they are the problem by being so extreme in their views of sex and sexuality themselves.
GabeN has “fuck you” money. He doesn’t need to kowtow to these uptight fucks
From Wikipedia about NCOSE
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), previously known as Morality in Media and Operation Yorkville, is an American conservative anti-pornography organization. The group has also campaigned against sex trafficking, same-sex marriage, sex shops and sex toys, decriminalization of sex work, comprehensive sex education, and various works of literature or visual arts the organization has deemed obscene, profane or indecent. […] The organization describes its goal as “exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation”.
Doing the lords work by fucking up (lol) any discourse about sexuality.
It’s very weird to see “decriminalization of sex work” in there though. Because that’s extremely progressive. (And positive in my eyes.)
“campaigning AGAINST”
they’re against that…
Oh I see thanks.
They’re against decriminalizing it
I can agree with exactly ONE thing on that list which is worth campaigning against and that’s sex trafficking. However, given that this lot voted in a fucking pedo rapist as the supreme leader of their country, I doubt their conviction.
Generally, the “sex trafficking” these types of groups campaign against is the non-existent QAnon variant, where those people are somehow trafficking millions and millions of (white suburban) kids into sex slavery in those countries for more of those people.
Reminds me of enforcing the identification of all internet users for the sake of “protecting the children”.
comprehensive sex education
Ah yes, because if there is anything that will prevent exploitation it’s not being educated about sex.
Because fucking of course they’re fascists. Of course.
HuniePop is a comedic masterpiece I will actually be upset about if it’s disappeared.
This group is nuts. Wanting to ban Detroit Become Human because it depicts child abuse is completely insane. That’s like solving sex trafficking by making it illegal to mention it.
I mean, their leader is literally under fire for saying the Epstein files never existed and people should just stop talking about it. Making it illegal to even mention sex trafficking is the next logical step to protect the Dear Leader, because lord knows tackling the real issues wouldn’t end well for him.
It’s actually a more ideologically consistent position than most reactionary groups. They want to be able to keep diddling kids while everyone shuts up about it and the queers get shoved in concentration camps. Now that’s a Good Traditional Christian Nation babyyyyyy
Doubt they want to solve it. More like make it out of sight, out of mind.
This is exactly their goal. They don’t wanna solve it. They don’t want to make things better. They just want it to not be talked about or discussed or thought about. It’s the same as your landlord painting over a patch of black mold.
Ah, I thought it was strange for the payment processing companies to come out of nowhere.
Them being pressured by conservative prudish assholes masquerading as concerned feminists makes more sense.
What’s next? Are they going to try to remove The Last of Us ? :/
Is there no aspect of life that isn’t being completely shit upon and ruined by conservatives?
No. They are anti-human, straight up.
Let’s not give them ideas.
Uh holiday dishes?
You mean Christmas dishes you woke commie /s
Well, that’s new: usually when I need the archived article it’s because the original was paywalled, but this time the original seems to have been deleted completely. Is Vice getting censored too now?
Because VICE went bankrupt. Surprised their website is running at all.
The author posted three articles involving Collective Shout. The only one that didn’t get removed replaces most of the detailing on Collective Shout with narration of the now-endangered benefits of “we both roleplay as giant women who consume our viewers”.
Moral of the story: To avoid takedown, double down
and eat peopleIt’s weird, the link on the front page is still there, but it leads to a 404:
Archive.ph is always a great choice for this kind of bs. I was able to pull the the article before they decided to remove it. https://archive.ph/x5cGQ
It seems like they are genuinely just anti-video game, which is insane. At first i thought they were pro-SA since they try to censor negative depictions of it, but then they also target GTA with blatant lies. Maybe the puritans aren’t as dead as they should be and some of them still hate the idea that someone could be having fun.
I just wonder why they choose pink asshole as they logo.
Why does every logo have to be called an asshole now?
it’s literally a *
Its a star shaped opening in a pink ring. Have you never seen an asshole?
Yeah there is no way I’d think “asterisk” with that logo, especially with an organization that is anti-everything in human sexuality. Aside from the one thing I’d agree with but they don’t seem to actually be interested in stopping.
Have you never seen an asshole?
Where is this stage in the “first they came for” poem?
Is Detroit: Become Human on the list of removed titles (that’s where the screenshot is from).
The game does deal with themes like child and spousal abuse, and has a part with a same sex couple, so it fits these fascists’ MO.
If so, ridiculous. However, I kind of hope they do go after some bigger games so people get pissed.
I hope they fucked with wrong company. Watch Valve become the best payment processor simply out of spite. Although there is no solution for reactionaries everywhere targeting porn and sex work.
they already removed a bunch of games
Honestly valve mishandled this issue. This sounded like a solid opportunity to be like “Okay, AO and NSFW games are no longer able to be sold via third party merchants” and then disabled the ability on the payment page.
Like they already offer an ability to pay directly, just require funding to be from steam wallet, then the transaction records are only “add funds” or “wallet payment” or whatever they use for steam wallet funding. Or if it is just paypal, make it so it has to be a first(wallet) or a second(credit cards) party instead of a third party(paypal)
I assume the payment processors demanded these games not be on the marketplace at all, not just that they didn’t handle the payments for them.
This far into the 21st century, paying people for art should have no barriers.
This is why piracy is morally correct.
I dunno, the people making the games would love to sell them but they are literally deprived of a way to take money from you. Even if you wanted to give them money. For once it’s not the publisher fucking you over.
This is a shit take if I’ve ever seen one.
Why is there an Animal Crossing video attached to this? Also, what happened to the original article, did they delete it?
Cease and desist from said group?
