Those GOP bills explicitly include exceptions for “high-risk” categories, which make them absolutely useless to people deemed NSFW, and look like they will function just to stop banking institutions from refusing to do business with nazis
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Looks like the ‘Meet the…’ style trailers will return for Deadlock
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tf is sex trafficking implications
someone there’s pointing out that in context this is only in reference to porn and i suppose it is if we assume good faith forever but the wording is looking pretty vague to me
edit might as well copy all of it since bsky links don’t embed
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I wonder how “non-con” is going to square with “battle fuck” (I promise you this is an actual term describing porn games) or other titles that have enemies that, well, you know, just kinda start doing things
because that’s more or less half of the market
what does that mean for BDSM? it’s a consensual act but can involve showcasing harm or what would otherwise be noncon acts
if payment processors are going to explicitly start disallowing incest, what does that mean for 90% of America
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or those games where you control generations of a royal dynasty
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the court case when they officially decide stepsisters aren’t incest is gonna be like in the 1910s when they had to establish that Armenians were white
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maybe this is a rube question but: how does something like pornhub manage it’s payments? what has it done to (as far as i can tell) free itself from these gormless liberal puritans? could itch follow suit?
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porn sites have largely been fucked by this for years so they’re all into crypto and weird shit like automated clearing house payments. i had a friend who used to make shit for manyvids and she said something to me once about how some porn sites got around the payment processor restrictions by charging people through a shell company so it wouldn’t say anything porn related on a bank statement because I had a similar question. It seems like they’ve cracked down a lot so I do not think this is common anymore
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iirc there are payment processors that specialize in “high risk” (industry term, not mine) transactions but they charge an arm & leg on fees and aren’t feasible for anyone but big porn studios
as always, these attempts at banning porno just make it worse for independent creators and favor big corpo players. you’ll lose furry art on itch and the onlyfans lady making solo content in her apartment but big sites will always be full of max hardcore wannabes brutalizing actresses
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Just want to toss out that it’s anti-queer Evangelicals pushing this with the support of bankers, so more the normal reactionary puritans.
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I can’t wait for English horny spaces to take up all the “I see what you’re saying, wink” tags that DLSite tried and failed with
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apologies; in australia the liberals are the conservatives
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it’s okay, liberals are also the conservatives in most countries
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it’s all very annoyingly fraught because like
- I think the American shorthand of “liberal” to mean progressive or left of center is both globally and epistemically wrong
- I think virtually everyone whose first inclination is to defend liberalism qua liberalism (and there have been a lot of them over the years) is counterproductive to any winning political movement
- I personally despise the capital L liberal party of Canada
- but I think almost any contextless disgust with “liberals” or an attempt to rhetorically distance oneself as a progressive or w/e is totally counterproductive for a popular front and almost inevitably doomed to be misunderstood by people without extremely online politics and ultimately contributes to a cult-of-defeat doomer vibe, and I think most small-l liberals are generally pleasant allies, as opposed to support for the Liberal party or rhetorical advocacy of liberalism in and of itself, which is usually common to bad liberals
it’s not a very fun set of heuristics to apply tbh
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tbh, moral failure of all of us for not going ride or die with rapelay
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This is fascinating but unsurprising. Rapelay made the rounds in academia for a while as a bit of a crisis regarding what to do about games that pushed the limits of expression at the same time big debates about games as art were at their peak. I don’t think more than 2 academics have actually played Rapelay but the lobbying groups like this do tend to be very good at using specific examples to forward the moral majority that the rest of us have to defend against.
The same thing happened during the initial ratings crisis around violence. The three games that were chosen for emphasis were Mortal Kombat (extremely cartoonish but fair enough), Night Trap (visually striking but relatively obscure), and Lethal Enforcers (because light guns are training for real gun ???). Violence has since been abandoned by these groups since academia had to do the heavy-lifting to show it was basically a dead end and so the more in-built conservative ick response to sex, at least in the West, has been the target ever since - although importantly not titillation as long as it’s het to the gills. Academic research has struggled to reconcile the problematising of sex ever since. It’s either very progressive or highly problematic to champion and so I think these reactionary groups get away with it more easily, especially in the current climate around porn.
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The actual article is here
The section about Brian Harradine in particular is bringing back some highly unpleasant personal memories for me.
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