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

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872 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | 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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Hizonner ◴[18 Jul 25 23:11 UTC] No.44610823[source]▶
> There are some things that should not be normalized in society.

That attitude has recently become normalized, and I find it Concerning(TM).

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1. nkrisc ◴[19 Jul 25 10:34 UTC] No.44614266[source]▶
Recently? Such a sentiment has existed since the dawn of human society.