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

  • Azarova [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 days ago

    This is definitely a “let them fight” scenario

    No it isn’t. These are the first steps towards declaring queer existence to be pornographic, and then banning queer content from every platform entirely. I’m sorry if this comes off as harsh, but I am so fucking tired of seeing this take from people who should know better. Please think a few more steps ahead as to what this actually means and what their real goals are. Reactionaries consistently wield payment processors like a club to deplatform anything they don’t like. They’ve been doing this for basically decades at this point. To see hexbears going “haha silly gamers losing their titty slop games” without a single thought as to why this is happening or considering that this may just be the opening moves towards a larger goal, has been fucking maddening.

    Editing to add some context: The Christofascists behind this have always seemed queer existence to be inherently sexual. Just take a look at their rhetoric surrounding the litany of book bans that have happened throughout US schools. This is just another prong in their “”“save the children”“” (read: erase queer people from public existence) crusade.