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Group Behind Steam Censorship Policies Have Powerful Allies — And Targeted Popular Games With Outlandish Claims
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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.07.20-004547/https://www.vice.com/en/article/group-behind-steam-censorship-policies-have-powerful-allies-and-targeted-popular-games-with-outlandish-claims/This far into the 21st century, paying people for art should have no barriers.
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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?
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From Wikipedia about [NCOSE](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_on_Sexual_Exploitation) > 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.> comprehensive sex education Ah yes, because if there is anything that will prevent exploitation it’s not being educated about sex.
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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.07.20-004547/https://www.vice.com/en/article/group-behind-steam-censorship-policies-have-powerful-allies-and-targeted-popular-games-with-outlandish-claims/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.
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It's weird, the link on the front page is still there, but it leads to a 404: https://www.vice.com/en/article/group-behind-steam-censorship-policies-have-powerful-allies-and-targeted-popular-games-with-outlandish-claims/
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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.
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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.07.20-004547/https://www.vice.com/en/article/group-behind-steam-censorship-policies-have-powerful-allies-and-targeted-popular-games-with-outlandish-claims/
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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.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)
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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.
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Is there _no_ aspect of life that isn't being completely shit upon and ruined by conservatives?No. They are anti-human, straight up.
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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/x5cGQIt 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.
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Is there _no_ aspect of life that isn't being completely shit upon and ruined by conservatives?
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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 "sec 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*.
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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
