Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship
Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship
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Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship
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Good.
I know the whole "slippery slope" argument is often overused, but conservatives already love to conflate queer voices with pornography to try and censor them. This slope is like X=0.1, if these conservatives have their way they will be coming for LGBTQ content next. This shit needs to be shut down right away.
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Atwater: Y'all don't quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, "removed, removed, removed." By 1968 you can't say "removed"—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, "We want to cut this," is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than "removed, removed."
Collective Shout is following this with some modifications. You can't come out an say "we want to ban LGBT content". Collective Shout starts with banning inceset and rape games cause who's going to stand against that? Then it's all about perverts (with no definition of what makes someone a pervert) and protecting children from perverts. All the way talking about what makes a women, women (Hint: Does not include trans-women).
It's why conseratives are in favor of bathroom bills, ID and birth names, and other anti-trans law.
For people like us, it's glaring obvious what Collective Shout is up too however the average person doesn't.
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Leftists basically never reach beyond what they say, and in fact there’s a lot of issues that come from centrists often being the sorry excuse for true progressiveness in most places. Conservatives, though? That slope is proven, every damn day, to be slicker than a teflon slip’n’slide coated in motor oil and full-fat butter.
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Why did Reddit delete the post?
For fuck sales, Reddit…. Could you try not to suck so hard all the time?
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It’s 90% bots now.
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Narwhal. Axe. This.
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I’m not even a gamer and I object to this censorship of consensual sexual content. I don’t support the violence aspect, but these companies are swinging the pendulum way too far. I’ll call my CC company after work to register my (cordial) complaint.
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They targeted gamers. Gamers.
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Gamers are the most oppressed minority, after white men and Christians.
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I've heard collective shout is trying to run away too; claiming that itch.io is being mean and being maliciously compliant.
Good.
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Reminds me of the old cartoon where internet porn becomes illegal and the streets are on fire in the next frame.
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Visa and MasterCard's low wage customer service operators are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over 'censorship'
ftfy
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They targeted gamers. Gamers.
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Good.
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I mean, before getting too excited it's worth taking a second to remember this is the exact playbook that launched Gamergate. Will be some of the same people, too, considering porn is the great unifier of the US left and... well, horny nerds.
I agree with the sentiment, but I'm not gonna get super hyped for the "gamers can organize a remote pressure campaign" thing ever again without some icky feelings.
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Attacking a massive corporation is a very different proposition than attacking individuals, I don't think that parallel is terribly concerning
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Is it? I don't know that I can get behind people based on who they choose to go after. I've always had trouble to find a mob that goes after people I dislike any less scary than any other.
And for the record, again, I do agree with the underlying sentiment and have no particular empathy towards payment services, of all things. I just find it very hard to see "gamers" rallying to do the whole online disruption thing and cheer rather than picture the very real instances of attacking individuals in the exact same way.
It's just kinda creepy, honestly. More so if the only line we have for this is how much we like the targets at any given point. I'm gonna spend a long time thinking about this one. So far a bad faith letter campaign and an online disruption campaign are both having an outsized influence on something that probably shouldn't be swayed so easily in any direction beyond official government regulations. Even if this ultimately falls on the side I agree with it's... not a good look and I come out of it more concerned than I was. And I was concerned about this scenario already.
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