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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

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713 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.24s | source
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bji9jhff ◴[18 Jul 25 17:13 UTC] No.44607275[source]▶
It is sad that in 2025 this needs to be repeated: fiction is not real.

This statement imply that:

* Simulated violence is not violence.

* Simulated sex is not sex.

* Simulated sorcery is not sorcery

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nkrisc ◴[18 Jul 25 23:06 UTC] No.44610770[source]▶
And yet it is possible to make simulations extreme enough I would not opposed to banning them. There are some things that should not be normalized in society.

It shouldn’t be payment processors doing it unilaterally, I’ll grant that. But I’m not (and I’m sure a great many more of a silent majority) wholly opposed to the outcome.

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1. krustyburger ◴[18 Jul 25 23:16 UTC] No.44610871[source]▶
The term “silent majority” has a very specific political meaning.

But, in what way do you think those opposing “extreme” content being consumed by their fellow citizens are silent? State governments across the country are clamoring to censor all sorts of things, presumably to satisfy their constituents.