Plans to abolish Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act could have dire consequences for games.

It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices

    • Carcharodonna [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      This affects companies across the board, including itch.io which has also been removing “adult games” from their platform. It also isn’t just restricted to games, but anything people pay for that may violate the arbitrary standards set by payment processors. So, if they start targeting LGBTQ content, it would likely force LGBTQ media content underground worldwide. That doesn’t seem like a good thing in any context.

      • CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        3 days ago

        I read someone say that getting rid of rainbow capitalism is the canary in the coal mine, because tokenization is one of the most prominent defenses against violence that the LGBTQ community has, and capitalists not doing it is a sign that they’re seeing the culture shift to the point that not pandering to them is more profitable.

        • egg1918 [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 days ago

          read someone say that getting rid of rainbow capitalism is the canary in the coal mine

          Target pulling all pride merch in May last year. They saw it coming

        • Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Minorities are already more radicalized than the general population, and white people are not radicalized by minority suffering. What the fuck are you smoking?

          FOH with that nazbol shit

        • corvidenjoyer [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          2 days ago

          The existence of blahaj.zone (and the blahaj emote here) show that even trans people have become feckless stooges of the bourgeoisie and need to be shocked back into recognising who their enemies are.

          Forcibly removing minorities from the economy is a good thing in that maybe we’ll stop mindlessly living in poverty and handing what labour and value we have to the exact individuals responsible for our suffering. If it takes that level of suffering to radicalise people then maybe the people should think about exactly why it is they were willing to operate the orphan crushing machine even when they knew the orphans being crushed were their own comrades.

          Much like how I support all efforts to ban minorities from participating in the military, I support all efforts to exclude minorities from the capitalist economy

          I wanted to call out the absurdity of equating particpating in the capitalist economy very-intelligent to directly and intentionally contributing to imperialism but on futher reflection, this nonsense screed is nothing more then Tailism and should be ignored as if it came from Infrared Haz himself. deeply-reactionary xi-reactionary-spotted

    • reddit [any,they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      I don’t think that’s what’s going to actually happen. In the same way that Bluesky is replacing Twitter while Mastodon comparatively languishes, whatever decentralized way of distributing games we might hope for is just going to get beat out by Epic or whatever next launcher shows up, assuming these rules don’t become reified as actual laws. Creators will still just be in a situation of making a game that plays by all these rules, or languishing in obscurity. And that’s assuming Steam even loses its grip, I’m not holding my breath on that. I think it’s much more likely they just keep dutifully enforcing these bans, and the vast majority of people simply don’t know about it or don’t really care unfortunately.

    • Le_Wokisme [they/them, undecided]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      3 days ago

      steam competitors aren’t really beneficial to end-users either. it fragments everything and is analogous to when all the netflix competitors got going and now streaming is even more of a nightmare than just paying cable was.

      we should seize steam.

    • hotcouchguy [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Leaving the rest aside, even if steam did lose some market share, it would be like Netflix losing market share: we’ll go from one dominant bad platform to 6 or 8 squabbling platforms that are all even worse.

      If we want to replace these dominant platforms (in any sector) we need to create a better alternative somehow, instead of hoping the market will