Stop using children as a stand-in for your discomfort. That is so overdone.

Why shouldn't the payment processors get a say in the payments they process? Illegal or not, why should they be forced to process payments that facilitate things against their beliefs? Steam could pursue other payment processing possibilities instead of acquiescing to their demands.

Oh no, anyway.

Unironically crupto

I think steam payments alone might overwhelm most of the crypto networks.

While the effect of not having as much random porn on steam is kinda nice, the underlying reasons for this are fucking horrifying because it's further proof that some giant american companies (visa, paypal, mastercard) are the global morality police. And it's just random porn subgenres getting removed anyway so it kinda does nothing about the flood of those anyway.

   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).

   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).

Does this mean they got rid of that one game where you drug your sister/wife repeatedly so a guy in the hallway doesn't kill you? 12 Minutes that's what it was called !

> shipping company should be able to refuse to ship products from businesses they don’t approve of Sure, I don't have a problem with that. I would use another shipping company. > What about either of those companies refusing service to someone because of their sexual orientation or gender identity? That is not remotely the same thing and a gross false equivalence. We're talking about platforming incest hentai games and you're making a comparison to serving Black and queer people. I don't think we're going to see eye to eye on this, have a good one.

There is a lot of talk dancing around the issue here. This isn't an American thing or a puritan thing. This is purely a capitalism thing. They have been doing this for years. Do you think lolicon got forced off of every major platform for moral reasons? It breaks laws in various counties that the web hosts and payment processors operate in. Wincest porn, CNC porn, zoo stuff, NSFL stuff. It's all illegal somewhere. These companies are chasing profits. Those niche topics mentioned above lock them out of expanding into some places. Like China. They don't give a fuck about the ethics of the content. They care that they're loosing money by not being able to conduct business in those markets. You'll loose your little family harem video game. They don't care. They're making billions processing the main narket. It's capitalism and the global economy that's making your platforms more conservative.

   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).

Well I find it a bit ironic to invoke the "free market" while simultaneously asserting they should be free to choose who they go to market with. Isn't the point of the "free market" that if Visa or Mastercard won't facilitate the needs of the market, someone else will?

I don't care about these games and not even about steam, but a payment provider having any power over what content a service offers is really bad. It's like your supermarket checking if you eat your food they sold you with cutlery.

Not a fan of porn games (which aren't available here anyway), but that is not a good sign. Why would they even cater to payment providers? They should not be able to determine whether you bought a porn game or a regular game, just that it's something on Steam.

Does this mean they got rid of that one game where you drug your sister/wife repeatedly so a guy in the hallway doesn't kill you? 12 Minutes that's what it was called !

Payment processors don't know which game you bought. That's not the concern. Their concern is that the store they do business with provides services to content they deem inappropriate. Frankly, I'm surprised they allowed this much for so long given the past. Why credit card processors are puritans, I have no idea. But MC, Visa and PayPal have historically always been super anti-porn.

I'm sure you have your limit too. Otherwise you're lying to yourself. I think children not getting exposed for cartoon porn is a pretty good stop. Especially when the perpetrators seem to think it's harmless. Stop pretending that furries is about anything other than fantasy of fucking your favorite cartoon please.

It’s kind of messy because I think there is a subset of the fandom where it isn’t necessarily sexualized. Like, Khajit and Argonians from Elder Scrolls are pretty much furries but they’re not explicitly sexual. Feel like I’m getting over my skis in terms of my understanding of that fandom since I’m not in that world. No idea how if at all those cons keep the kid safe stuff separate from the sex shit, if at all.

Yes, furry conventions that allow children do not allow children into 18+ spaces. At the very least there's always staff checking attendee badges which tend to say right on them if the attendee is an adult or not.