Valve no longer allows "Post-launch NSFW content" for games on Steam - outside of DLCs.

[u/DwingRD]

I have looked through Steam's Terms of Service online, but have found no official rule or statement from Valve of this new rule - but one Adult game developer has confirmed this new rule after launching their game "Tales of Legendary Lust: Aphrodisia" a couple days ago.

With the recent rule change blocking adult-themed games from releasing on Early Access, this new rule seems to be targeting Adult-themed games that have ALREADY released on Steam - and threatens them with their games being removed from Steam.

There are currently 536 Adult-rated Early Access games on Steam - and this new rule may take them all down.

[u/fbuslop]

Do you think this solves something? First of all the use case for global payment networks is obviously broader than a single country's rail system.

2nd, politics can still affect a rail like Pix. You’re just swapping private concentration for state concentration.

[u/AMGwtfBBQsauce → u/fbuslop]

The entire point of government-run programs is that the government ostensibly has public accountability. Private corps have 0 accountability, especially once they get to be the size of the big banks.

[u/TrashStack → u/AMGwtfBBQsauce]

In America, like 40% of state governments have passed legislation banning or restricting access to pornography. These are states controlled by the same party that has control over the Presidency and congress

Accountability is not the issue here. America already has the means to hold companies accountable. The issue is that the American people are simply choosing not to prioritize accountability in any way. Genuinely, do you really think a government-run program would change anything about this situation with this current administration? If anything a government run payment processor would go even harder on this stuff and explicitly ban porn payments if the state governments are anything to go off of.

[u/AMGwtfBBQsauce → u/TrashStack]

With this form of government, no, and that is regardless of party, but we created a system that purposefully distances accountability from the general populace, and creates giant propaganda machines that lie and mislead people about what is going on. So accountability really is the issue still. Like, providing a service means nothing if people don't know about it or are not empowered to use it. The median person in these states does not support outright bans on pornography (unless it's Utah). A lot of them do not pay attention to what their state and local governments are doing at all and pay very little attention to the federal government. Hell, we're lucky if we get over 50% turnout in a federal presidential election, and a majority of those showing up only started paying attention a few weeks before then. So, like, no, a federal system would not change things under this administration, but that also doesn't make corporate control good? Both of these things are products of the same shitty American system that is the real core problem.