After payment processors prompt removal of Steam games, journalists investigating the censorship resign

[Redaktion]

Many Steam games are no longer available at the request of payment providers. Ana Valens, formerly of Vice, believes that activist groups have too much influence over payment processors and Valve's marketplace. The writer who labels the censorship as unjustified now finds herself out of work.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/After-payment-processors-prompt-removal-of-Steam-games-journalists-investigating-the-censorship-resign.1063259.0.html

[Li]

There is nothing feminist (or anti-child-abuse) about Collective Shout, NCOSE and Exodus Cry.

They are Christian-founded and/or Christian-affiliated censorship activists with long history of often targeting mostly LGBT+ friendly content, just giving false or misleading narratives about that.

If you want proofs, you can e.g. check who founded NCOSE, or check what games they targeted on Steam 2018.

Don't listen to their false narratives, look what is portrayed in (most of) games/media they target.

[Azrael_Garou]

I see this as a win against conservative-owned Vice "news," pedophilia and rape culture in general. Why don't you? Are you some kind of weirdo?

[Chiraisu]

@Azrael

I want to remind you that rape culture doesn't exist. There is absolutely zero evidence -and this has been tried against, time and again- that any sort of sexualized depiction in video games, movies, media or otherwise increases the likelihood that a woman will become a victim in the future. It doesn't happen.

Whether or not VICE is conservative or not. This journalist -who is a woman I may add- lost their job for expressing their right of freedom of speech. Collective Shout is an org borders on tyranny and should have no say on what other people choose to spend their money on, whether it breaks the law or not, and I assure you, the games removed from the Steam library as a result of this movement were not breaking any laws.

If you want to live in a dystopia where every bit of your life is sanitized before it gets to you, be my guest, but the rest of the world doesn't think like that.

[TheVIcester]

I can't stop laughing.

The leftoids who have been trying to deplatform right wingers via payment processors are now shocked and appalled when their degenerate hobbies are targeted?

Eat s*** and die.

[Random Commenter]

I can't stop laughing.

The leftoids who have been trying to deplatform right wingers via payment processors are now shocked and appalled when their degenerate hobbies are targeted?

Eat s*** and die.

The organizations that worked to deplatform a lot of these games are conservative, anti-sex, anti-pornography, and anti-obscenity. Melinda Tankard Reist, the co-founder of Collective Shout is also a conservative anti-pornography and obscenity activist.

[Bananas51]

lol MAGA loved pedophile Trump!

You're the wierdo!!