• TabbsTheBat@pawb.social
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    Americans are being puritanical, and US payment companies are making steam and other game platforms remove nsfw content or they’ll block their payment services from them or something.

    And somehow they decided it’s better to make this an issue for everyone, not just the people who use those payment services

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      Pretty sure Collective Shout is Austrailian.

      I think they also got Left 4 Dead 2’s poster edited to remove the V fingers (cuz it’s 2 in america and the finger in Aussie??)

      They also got an rpg rape simulator delisted, though that probs would have happened on it’s own.

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        You can look at the list :3 this is from itch talking about collective shout. A lot of them are US based, the last one is japanese

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          Totally. I’m arguing that the only people with puritanical reasons are the Australian karen group.

          VISA etc are acting for purely financial reasons. Like they literally have matrixes for this kind of thing. Corporations don’t give 2 shits about fuck if it doesn’t make them money.

          End of the day they calculated that the market cap for hentai games is smaller than the potential lost revenue generated from the negative publicity.

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            Fair enough :3

            Similar point tho. Enough puritans can’t handle consenting adults looking at a drawn penis to make the payment processors pull this little stunt

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          Funny they don’t name their own Australian conservative anti abortion Christian founder though

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melinda_Tankard_Reist

          Funny that they are trying to empower women so much but aren’t going after any of the social media of fundie women telling young girls their only purpose in life is to breed and serve their husband

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          The entire movement and group that’s pushing this is the Australian branches of these companies and Australian groups partitioning the companies.

          So this is entirely Australias fault.

          International companies are international.