They act puritan to help facilitate business in more restricted cultures like China or Vietnam. Allowing everything that is allowed in the most liberal countries wouldn’t loose them their marketshare in those countries. Disallowing it though, that opens those foreign markets with minimal negative effect to their processing volume. How many people are going to blame visa for this? Most will just blame Steam who is just conforming to the standards the processors set.

Because we have a little thing called ‘tact’

I didn’t come here to have that argument. Things as they are, you can search for lolicon in most corporate owned search engines and be told about csam being illegal. It is what it is and I used that as the basis for my argument not your feelings on…what, thought crime?

God forbid I pin the actual reason for the complaint that is effecting you and explain why.

There is a lot of talk dancing around the issue here. This isn’t an American thing or a Puritan thing. This is purely a capitalism thing. They have been doing this for years. Do you think lolicon got forced off of every major platform for moral reasons? It breaks laws in various counties that the web hosts and payment processors operate in. Wincest porn, CNC porn, Zoo Porn, NSFL stuff. It’s all illegal somewhere. These companies are chasing profits. Those niche topics mentioned above lock them out of expanding into some places. Like China. They don’t give a fuck about the ethics of the content. They care that they’re loosing money by not being able to conduct business in those markets. They care that hosting it makes them a target and possible have to deal with law enforment of some country, fines, or vigilante style attacks on their network. You’ll loose your little family harem video game. They don’t care. They’re making billions processing the main narket. It’s capitalism and the global economy that’s making your platforms more conservative.

“It’s just good business.” It pisses me off.

Yeah, processors and web hosts both play a huge role in policing content. The beasiality and lolicon websites haven’t been disappearing for the last 15 years because moral awakening. It’s been the web hosts shutting down websites because they violate some local law and it interfered with there profits.

They’ve been pulling this shit for years. It’s just been to stuff you agree with. You think the zoo porn just and drawn CSAM just disappeared from the big platforms and search engines because it was the right thing to do? Nah it was the processors and ad agencies. Pressure from capital. People just didn’t care then because they agreed with it.

Yeah man, that’s where we are. It will likely go worse but that’s the thing people need to do. Can’t suggest it. Can’t organize it. Patriot act and what not. But that’s the type of pressure that needs applied.

So here’s the rub. I agree with you but rules are not universal. They don’t give a shit about the money they’re making now they see the countries whose markets they can’t enter because of various laws and get pissed. So we get held to the most restricted standards that will allow them the most business. It’s bs. Basically since they want to do hypothetical business in like… Vietnam, we have to loose our smut.

This has been a thing for at least ten years now. Credit card and money processor companies have policied content for ages. That’s why it’s hard in some ways to pay for porn. They fucking strong arm and moralize. To be fair I only have like one game on steam that’s smut but since it was snow days I’m betting it will be removed.

Not from marvel. From history. And very American. If you know you know. Black Panthers were good people.

2A black panther style

Man, As an American i just want to live a comfortable life. I can’t do shit about the fact that a third if the country is rewarded and upset about stuff that has nothing to do with them because the richest told them to be. Fuck it man. You want to do something about it?

What is this Meta media literacy? Real talk though, I bet you could find the Christian equivalent if you looked hard enough.

As an American I’ll have you know that I resemble that remark!

I didn’t have a point in my statement. You and everyone else can take it easy with the geoploiticing. I’m aware that generally there isn’t anyone completely in the right in the middle east. I was just pointing out how interesting it is that I was condemning Iran not two years ago and wanting a regime change and now Isreal is picking this fight. I was tempering my own mental reaction. Things move fast and we forget things. A western puppet gov in iran might actually be good for its people. I just dont think the US should put troops on the ground. We all sit behind a screen and talk into the void picking sides and arguing about this and that but for now, it amounts to nothing.

Yeah it’s too bad the phrase “both sides” has become another trigger term for people. You legitimately can’t say anything anymore. Tribalism is a real problem online. You used to be able to have opinions that differered from other people. On principle I understand wanting to advocate for human rights. But bad actors have turned what should be a forum for discussion into what amounts to a binary rap battle. It’s online gang warfare that’s been cultivated to stop communication and growth. It’s gross. Life is complicated and we can’t always be right but we can always try our best.

That makes sense. It’s funny how people have forgotten the women’s protests of a few years ago and are quick to jump to Iran’s defense. They may not be the aggressors but as a country they aren’t innocent. They have their problems. Russia trying to get their hegemony makes sense.

War doesn’t have limits. It had suggestions.

It’s Linux for me but I also have to assume tablet culture plays a role too.