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Gabe Newell asked Valve's top lawyer "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" in heated debate over porn games on Steam, report says (www.gamesradar.com)

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[–] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The article calling their moderation hands-off stuck out to me because you can't really call Steam's approach hands off by any means, they've banned some Japanese VNs before and most VN discovery guides will encourage you to use other marketplaces to avoid possible censorship, because it happens.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

What kind of stuff, specifically, do they censor?

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

Examples given in the article are:

Historically, Valve's policy has only banned games that are "illegal or straight-up trolling," but that has opened the people running Steam to an endless series of subjective value judgements. For years, sporadic reports emerged of developers making anime-style smut getting ghosted by Valve – presumably for the genre's association with high school settings and underage characters. Similarly, Steam took direct action to pull a cheap, trashy visual novel called Rape Day from the platform in 2019.

Fuck that article BTW, pretending Steam is in the wrong and the quack would have "saved them some headaches".

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's kind of what I figured they meant by "censorship".

If Valve doesn't want to sell you loli visual novels, then that's their prerogative. Can't say that I blame them.

[–] Noja@sopuli.xyz 1 points 43 minutes ago

There's significant overblocking, similar to how Australia banned women with small breasts from porn. But I guess that's what people want nowdays, some are even vocal about censoring women who "dress like underage girls", whatever that means. I've even seen people wanting to censor certain hairstyles, like pigtails "because that's a little girls hairstyle".

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Free speech for the maker of loli porn but not for the platform that has regular porn or lgbtq.

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Lesbian porn and trans porn are the two biggest categories in porn.

Both of those categories are lgbtq.

Therefore, lgbtq is the most "regular" porn.

[–] Uruanna@lemmy.world 1 points 57 minutes ago* (last edited 56 minutes ago)

Just LGBTQ+, I wasn't talking about LGBTQ+ porn as separate from "regular porn". I'm saying biggots will censor non-porn LGBTQ+ too. I am separating loli porn from "regular" porn.