I'm out of the loop I guess. What's happening?

Couldn't people just by steam cards with cash, load load it to their accounts and then make their porn purchases? What's to stop other retailers from selling gift cards that can be purchased with cash to use on the pornographic stuff being sold? Edit: I just learned this issue stems from the major CC companies refusing to let companies like steam use their platform to process payments if they kept NSFW games up. My question still stands, what's keeping steam or the player base from telling these companies to f-off and switch to a cash based gift card method?

Okay, devils advocate time.

What is the correct way to ban rape and anime CSAM games from Steam?

Because I don’t buy “freedom” and “none of my business” as reasonable moral positions.

I think it’s justified to want to prevent people from normalizing extreme content publicly.

I think one of the greatest moral failings of modern society is the obsession with allowing companies, rich folk, and the deranged to build systems and communities of harm because society should always be neutral for some reason.

I do agree that payment systems shouldn’t be the ultimate arbiters of what’s permissible, and general sexual content is a normal part of what it means to be human. But we should have limits.

This conversation is completely dominated by people focusing on the “censorship.” As if we don’t justifiably ban snuff or actual films of these sorts of activities.

Please think of the children? Yes, and think of the women these sorts of norms harm. Sometimes you really should care.

This conversation is always completely without nuance, as if all censorship is objectively wrong. Sex games should be legal, unless they are absurdly harmful. And yes, I realize that line is sometimes hard to draw, but we absolutely should find it.

Failing to have a reasonable way to remove something you find genuinely immoral, and defaulting to this “trick” I think is a respectable action for someone who is trying to be ethical to take, even if I don’t completely agree with all her views.