Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?

Kind of like how Republicans wamt to police your sexual partners. Pretty sad in this day of age. Who cares how people spend money and what they spend it on.
If you're so concerned about kids, launch a parental education campaign. Or age verify with the card.
If you're a parent, you shouldn't be attaching your payment methods to kids' accounts anyway. That's financial suicide.
- You don't understand, I'm very concerned about the future for my child who I want to put no effort into raising. Why would I parent my kid when I can just have everything I don't want them exposed to banned? I'm a responsible parent who's definitely not just trying to enforce draconian puritanical standards I don't follow on everyone else.
  
  Hands crying kid iPad so they can watch weirdly sexual AI videos of Elsa without stopping for 6 hours straight, because interacting with her is interrupting me binge watching “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” which reminds me how puritanical I am
  
  Hmmm... That's a pretty valid argument. Now, normally, I'm not a big fan of hitting kids. So that's why I'm gonna hit you instead. Get over here, you little shit!
  
  Won't somebody please think of the children?!
- According to Knitting Cult Lady, cults always demand purity from its disciples, including those forced in (e.g. people raised in cults as kids), and there's an exception for the godhead-dude (who is often a lech).
  It's not about children. It's about forcing obedience and virtue signalling. It's a nazi salute that shows to fellow party members you're one of them.
  Real children's issues are about pulling kids out of precarity: food, housing, contact with family, education, healthcare, quality of life. Anyone who is saying their cause is to protect children who hasn't prioritized these specific things is engaging in a bad-faith argument.
- I think this is from "Collective shout" they seem to think the seem like your typical porn prohibitionists They figured out they could milk the outrage machine by having indecent art game become neo-banned books
  I think this circus is to throw the games off of the scent of the billionaire elite and their epstein getaways to mossad island

Hate it. Especially itch.io nuking everything. Adult games is basically the only reason I even had an account on there
- Well thanks for letting me know I don't need to bother with that site /s
  
  I think they're working on bringing a lot of it back and stuff, but ya know :3
  Last I checked you couldn't search for anything with the "nsfw" tag
- F95Zone has most games available for download, at least out of the ones I've seen on itch.io. It's technically a place to get them illegitimately, but a lot of small-time developers still make accounts there just to chat with players and encourage them to buy the games and/or support them on subscribestar for real if they like their content, which seems to work well.

Funny part is that one of Jesus's favorite disciplines was a prostitute. I don't think Jesus was has as prudish as his followers are.
- "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone..."
- I get that it was a typo, and you meant to say "disciples", but I like it better this way.
  Like Jesus was studying for a career in sex work.
  
  I think the disciples are disciplined by the cult guru. And we know how many of those guru end up with megaorgies maybe they didn't write all of it down
- Jesus always said the ones that needed him the most were the crooked ones. He say Magdalena and though "I can fix her"

The time is now if you're looking to start your own payment system
- I would be greatly entertained if valve went into payment processing and out-competed these absolute shitshows of companies.
  
  The Valve Strategy of "letting the competition shoot itself" spreads
- Why not GNU Taler?
  
  Oh, cool. A pity that it won't be adopted
  
  Does not work around the necessity to get all major retail banks or the central bank on board, as they outline in their FAQ.
  There's no magic bullet, if you want to act as a payment processor you only have a handful of options:
  Do a bank wire (but it's not pre-authorized so you're just providing a deposit account for your customers, like PayPal)
  Use Visa/MC (which PayPal falls back to if you have no money in your deposit account)
  Use regional payment processors where they exist (e.g. Bancontact/iDEAL in the Benelux, which Stripe conveniently abstracts for the retailers; however most countries don't have such a widespread alternative to American payment processors)
  Use physical cash
  Agree on a protocol to pre-authorize transfers on behalf of your customer with all banks your customers are likely to be using (in the EU you can do that with SEPA mandates, which PayPal does support as well)
  In practice the EU is doing that last thing with Wero (which already has partnered with all major retail banks in Benelux+France+Germany) and Brazil successfully did the same with Pix. It's not that the technical part is particularly hard, it's that convincing the banking sector to adhere to and commercially promote a new standard is a long, expensive, arduous process that requires strong political connections.
- Or you could adopt pix.
- This is the actual stated goal of Bitcoin. And this is an actual use for it. But that ship sailed a very long time ago.
- https://gravitypayments.com/
  The CEO stepped down and there is a new one in charge

Fuck you dollar jesus.

To the people who are pushing this:
Do you want everyone to start using crypto where all transactions are not controllable by you at all? Because this is how you get people to do that.
- That's the best case outcome no matter what, that's what crypto should be, not some brain rot hype scam fest. Also for private transactions, that's why Monero Is the only good crypto, its actually private and secure.
- I highly doubt that crypto could deliver on that particular promise.
  
  It already does deliver on that promise, crypto is used extensively online for drug orders. You may think that's bad, but it shows how well it works for secure and restriction less transactions.

- Thanks your your AI input! /s
- Crypto still has to deal with payment processors when it comes to large businesses. It doesn't side step the issue at all unless the business can entirely pay all it's bills with crypto.
- That's not about crypto, like at all?

Couldn't people just by steam cards with cash, load load it to their accounts and then make their porn purchases? What's to stop other retailers from selling gift cards that can be purchased with cash to use on the pornographic stuff being sold? Edit: I just learned this issue stems from the major CC companies refusing to let companies like steam use their platform to process payments if they kept NSFW games up. My question still stands, what's keeping steam or the player base from telling these companies to f-off and switch to a cash based gift card method?
- and then make their porn purchases
  The issue goes far beyond "porn games on Steam". These same groups tried to ben other games with no sex at all, but "disturbing" themes (to them). They failed, because, big game, big pushback. But their agenda is not "no porn", it's "no anything we dislike". They're just starting with the thing they hoped would get little to no pushback for now.
  
  Its really odd, cause you'd think they'd just want to make money no matter where it comes from.
- The biggest reason is Steam would likely lose more money from doing that compared with removing the games the card companies are being assholes about.
- Gift cards only function because of payment processors basically.
  If visa and MasterCard decide they won't support steam means you also can't buy steam gift cards with your debit card suddenly it requires cash.
  Stores will get pressured to no longer stock those giftcard or also lose visa/MasterCard support. This has been threatened before and has caused gift cards to be removed from major grocery stores in the us in the past.
  You CANT avoid this even swapping to crypto has the same problem. At some point you HAVE to deal with the payment processors.
  Even just getting your crypto back out into cash can quickly become problematic for a business.
  We the people have options and ways around it sure, but businesses really don't.

Just read about brazilian PIX system and I am baffled. Their gov bypassed payment companies all together and trump is really angry about it Lol. Epic
- Sounds like good shit.

Society has never been able to keep NSFW content out of the hands of viewers / end users, and have tried multiple times. Singles (a The Sims -like with actual sex -- if kinda clinical; it was a German game) was pressured off shelves in Target, Gamestop and Electronics Boutique. It came back with underwear stapled on, which was quickly hacked off.
This is how we ended up with official / unofficial patches that re-unlock all the naked bits in games like Huniepop, Nude keys, nude codes and nude patches became the convention which ushered video games into the same perversity level of cinema. (We've already had countless fan-made nude patches for non-romantic games).
And of course they're going too far, pressuring distribution services to cut LGBT+ content whether it's porn or not. Before they were emboldened by Trump, there was already pressure to de-list specific themes (an incomplete list: rape/NC; fictional child sex abuse/child experimentation; incest; and depending on the assessment, furry content within a certain threshold.¹ ). Anyhow we know the white Christian nationalist movement (from which the Heritage Society's Project 2025 and the Seven Mountain Mandate come) is looking to criminalize porn and make it difficult to access.
1: This is still weird to me, enough to geek out about it here. Furry hate gets strangely specific. It breaks down like this:
Those who disapprove of all furry content that is adult-themed (contrast the 1983 movie Rock and Rule vs. 1973 Disney's Robin Hood ) this group probably only exists because there's a significant fanbase for furry porn / erotica.
Of those that remain, those who disapprove of furry content featuring explicit sex (e.g. "Omaha" the Cat Dancer first published in 1976, by Reed Waller and Kate Worley.)
Of those that remain, those who disapprove of furry content that is exclusively erotic (I can't find the specific ones I've read, which isn't many.)
Of those that remain, those who disapprove of erotic furry content that features species-accurate genitals, which is the threshold VISA was in, and is too spicy for some lemmings. I don't fully understand why this is a subcategory.
The thing is most porn games and most LGBT+ centric games are labors of love, first, and a revenue source second. They will get made and get out, more so, when entire demographics and communities are stripped of a voice or of acknowledgement. It also puts less spicy porn in the same category as unethically spicy porn (e.g. CSAM). If the public has to use the same methods as terrorists and child predators to get their fix, it makes those groups less illegitimate. In for a lamb, in for a sheep.
Anyhow useful websites are here:
https://youtu.be/IlEHovdeKZw
https://yellat.money/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MNAdVCogC14dinW4OCnzNX1JkhJdTmUIStzvSROChjo/edit?usp=sharing

I'm out of the loop I guess. What's happening?
- Americans are being puritanical, and US payment companies are making steam and other game platforms remove nsfw content or they'll block their payment services from them or something.
  And somehow they decided it's better to make this an issue for everyone, not just the people who use those payment services
  
  Pretty sure Collective Shout is Austrailian.
  I think they also got Left 4 Dead 2's poster edited to remove the V fingers (cuz it's 2 in america and the finger in Aussie??)
  They also got an rpg rape simulator delisted, though that probs would have happened on it's own.
  
  It's Australia not America that's doing this.
- An action group of Karens who in the past have succeed in getting other games (one of them an rpg rape simulator) taken off of game stores.
  This recent story they convinced payment processors to pressure steam into removing most of their adult games as well as some other site that I guess has even more adult games.
  IMO if a platform decides they don't want to host adult content, that is their prerogative. The people conflating this to "art destruction" or "censorship" are just another flavour of people who misunderstand what free speech is and isn't.
  
  "Remove the games or we'll remove your ability to accept payments from 98% of your customers"
  DUDES IT'S TOTALLY UP TO THE GAME PLATFORM
  
  It's called "extortion." The X makes it sound sexy.
  
  Sounds like they need to get laid.

What does Jesus need with my credit card information?
- jim you dont ask the Almighty for his security numbers

People believing in their fake arguments... What they want is to empower the power (a dictatorial State)
- If these childs (when they grow adults) live in a horrible country without freedom... maybe it is better dont protect them

Wait till you learn that only fans models have people reply for them or bots! Loooool

If you can find his bones, I’ll ask them, but you should know that doing so says a lot more about you than it does me.

Okay, devils advocate time.
What is the correct way to ban rape and anime CSAM games from Steam?
Because I don’t buy “freedom” and “none of my business” as reasonable moral positions.
I think it’s justified to want to prevent people from normalizing extreme content publicly.
I think one of the greatest moral failings of modern society is the obsession with allowing companies, rich folk, and the deranged to build systems and communities of harm because society should always be neutral for some reason.
I do agree that payment systems shouldn’t be the ultimate arbiters of what’s permissible, and general sexual content is a normal part of what it means to be human. But we should have limits.
This conversation is completely dominated by people focusing on the “censorship.” As if we don’t justifiably ban snuff or actual films of these sorts of activities.
Please think of the children? Yes, and think of the women these sorts of norms harm. Sometimes you really should care.
This conversation is always completely without nuance, as if all censorship is objectively wrong. Sex games should be legal, unless they are absurdly harmful. And yes, I realize that line is sometimes hard to draw, but we absolutely should find it.
Failing to have a reasonable way to remove something you find genuinely immoral, and defaulting to this “trick” I think is a respectable action for someone who is trying to be ethical to take, even if I don’t completely agree with all her views.
- No matter the argument for or against allowing a game, the role of deciding this should not fall to a payment processor basically holding a game platform hostage.
  
  I mean isn’t this the gaming concept of scrub mentality? If I believe a specific moral act outweighs a minor dishonourable act, then shouldn’t I still do that act?
  Say I know someone is being beaten in a locked room. It is an important government room, and only key holders elected by the community should enter.
  I think it’s justifiable to kick down the door and stop the beating, because beating people up is against my morals so much more than ensuring proper procedure.
  But when if someone does that, and everyone endlessly gripes about how “passerbys should not have authority to enter the special room” instead of “well at least I’m glad someone isn’t being beaten up anymore”, then I have to wonder if most people are fine with beatings?
  Terrible analogy, non-equivalent etc, but do you see what I’m saying. Because I agree with you that card companies shouldn’t set the terms of what’s acceptable - I mentioned it in my first post.
  Using the card company to stop the distribution of tape material is a cheap tactic, but if preventing harm is winning, then saying it’s never justified is scrub mentality, as if beating someone by spamming hadoken doesn’t count.
  Patch the game later if it’s so unfair, this is the only way to get it removed right now. The deck is stacked against activists - usually the only effective options they have are disruptive and outside the system.
- What is the correct way to ban rape and anime CSAM games from Steam?
  I think the first step is defining terms and being transparent about your intent. Like, everybody's on board with banning pedoshit until you find out the organization is targeting transfolk and covering for real pedophiles. I have run into people who think all anime is CSAM, I have run into people who think all sex is rape. There's enough kooks out there, you can't just take a political org like Collective Shout at face value.
  You'd probably have to go game-by-game and point out that the game has certain elements, provide evidence that those elements are actually dangerous, then start a petition for Steam et al to remove individual titles.