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

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    55·
    3 days ago

    Honestly hoping this punches right into the gaming rightwing media sphere and leads to it having a meltdown. Would be funny if it was the treats being taken by overzealous christofascists that implodes the internet video game alt right media sphere.

    • mrfugu [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
      48·
      3 days ago

      Possible but doesn’t seem likely. Even ‘Collective Shout’ is a highly conservative group yet the chud sentiment seems to be “how dare these feminists”

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        30·
        3 days ago

        So more or less they’re blaming feminists for censoring games even though it’s evangelical Christians, man the narrative really got flipped post 2010s…

      • certified sinonist@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        21·
        2 days ago

        Collective Shout is run of the mill radfems. Their most conservative element is one of the founders being Christian, but they otherwise espouse the same views you’ll see any other radfem org share, with anti porn/anti sex work being their loudest topics.

        I think people are misrepresenting collective shout severely because of what they did, and it’s important that we recognize it as radical feminism, because this aligns with exactly what radfems want.

      • corvidenjoyer [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
        32·
        3 days ago

        There’s book that goes into this. Here is the author talking about it. https://www.businessinsider.com/steve-bannon-white-gamers-seinfeld-joshua-green-donald-trump-devils-bargain-sarah-palin-world-warcraft-gamergate-2017-7

        Transcript

        Bannon is a fascinating character. He kind of came out of nowhere. He’s from a Navy family in Richmond, Virginia. He served in the Navy. He kind of basically talked his way into Harvard Business School and a job at Goldman Sachs."

        After Goldman Sachs, he started his own boutique investment bank Bannon & Company and he was trying to broker a sale of Castle Rock Entertainment, which owned the rights to “Seinfeld.” He was trying to broker a sale between Westinghouse and Ted Turner and when Turner got the table, it turned out he was a little short of cash and rather than let the deal fall apart, Bannon and his partners agreed to take residuals in five television shows, including “Seinfeld,” in exchange for their cash fee. At the time, “Seinfeld” was like in its second or third season, wasn’t a big deal, Bannon thought it was going to be the runt of the litter. As we all know, it became a hit and he has since made about $2.5 dollars.

        Bannon had actually spent about a year in the mid-2000s in Hong Kong as the CEO of this bizarre video game company. The company didn’t actually make video games, what it did was try to profit from something called gold-mining, where you have players go in to these games, win gold and special armor and prizes, and then go sell it to gamers in the real world so they can kind of cheat and skip ahead a couple of levels.

        This was a serious business, it was actually backed by Goldman Sachs, but it crashed and went bankrupt because the gamers themselves who weren’t cheating became enraged basically that these other people were doing, they put so much pressure on the gaming companies. The gamers organized themselves on these “World of Warcraft” message boards. They put so much pressure on the video game companies, that they decided to basically ban gold-farming, which killed Bannon’s business, but it awakened him to the power of what he called “rootless white males” who spend all their time online. And five years later when Bannon wound up at Breitbart, he resolved to try and attract those people over to Breitbart because he thought they could be radicalized in a kind of populist, nationalist way. And the way that Bannon did that, the bridge between the angry abusive gamers and Breitbart and Pepe was Milo Yiannopoulous, who Bannon discovered and hired to be Breitbart’s tech editor.

      • Bloobish [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        19·
        3 days ago

        Mainly due to grifters being paid very well for spreading bullshit misinformation and blaming everything on “the woke” via both the algorithm and that angry young men love feeding into that sphere.