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

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728 points freedomben | 3 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.482s | 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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cool_dude85 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:17 UTC] No.44611304[source]▶
For the people who disagree: would you really be interested in seeing Child Grooming Simulator 25 on steam? I think we can almost all reasonably agree that at least this sort of content should not be sold on there.
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1. krustyburger ◴[19 Jul 25 00:24 UTC] No.44611339[source]▶
Won’t somebody please think of the children?
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2. cool_dude85 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:31 UTC] No.44611399[source]▶
When we start saying "no content restrictions besides illegal stuff", your hyperbolic question becomes legitimate in a way that it's not when we're talking about Doom.
3. Dracophoenix ◴[19 Jul 25 03:34 UTC] No.44612364[source]▶
Correction: Won't somebody please think of the pixels?