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

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819 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | 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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1970-01-01 ◴[18 Jul 25 23:24 UTC] No.44610937[source]▶
It's a slippery slope. It's not real but can certainly, by definition, create a situation that mimics reality to the point of assisting someone at committing a real crime that they couldn't possibly commit without the simulation.
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voxl ◴[18 Jul 25 23:26 UTC] No.44610949[source]▶
The slippery slope is in banning speech. If you want to make the claim that simulated sex leads to crimes we have been over this a thousand times with violence in games. There is no connection, you are without a leg to stand on except your own religious indoctrination.
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1. 1970-01-01 ◴[19 Jul 25 13:36 UTC] No.44615366[source]▶
>There is no connection, you are without a leg to stand on except your own religious indoctrination.

Flagging my reply is gross (you state that, not me!) and grounds for ban. I'll just leave this 2nd rebuttal here as I take back both my legs to stand on and yours as well :P

https://www.pcmag.com/news/take-it-down-act-deepfake-revenge...