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Someone claiming responsibility for the rule change on Steam.
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The group behind this is absolutely using it as a stepping stone to eventually censor games with trans content, if not lgbt content in general alongside everything else they erroneously view as harmful.
Steam can either be a curated games store or a free for all. They signaled way back that they want to be a free for all, but they've shown repeatedly that they will curate their store based on external pressure, which means that right now they're a store whose curators are the worst groups in society.
That's kinda tough, then. Because even in a free-for-all, I would greatly support censoring out those particular topics. But I definitely understand this group doesn't have the best intentions. I would love to believe the payment processors wouldn't agree to censor general LGBT+ content, but I also know better than to have any faith in the profit machine.
I think that it's not a functional stepping-stone for censoring gay content at least. There'd be an unfathomable level of community pushback and countless publishers, etc. would not tolerate such a thing. They'd literally have an easier time imposing rules about interracial sex (but that wouldn't fly either).