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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io (www.theguardian.com)
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Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 136 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Feels like we're going back to the 90s/00s "Christian parents against video games" moral panic era. But this time, they're being appeased more heavily.

I despise conservatism. It destroys everything it touches.

[–] TheTurner@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 week ago

It's another Satanic Panic.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 24 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And there's way fewer Christians nowadays

[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But more fascists

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's amazing how they have a book that tells them to love everybody and somehow they've taken that, and turned it into oppress everybody.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ugh... This shit again....

The fucking Bible is FULL OF FUCKING HATE. Hate for women, hate for blacks, hate for gays, hate for the "other".

I'm really sick of people trotting out two lines from that book of fairytales and doing a pikachu face "how could people read this and be evil?!?"

Easily, because the Bible is filled with vile shit. Because it's made up bullshit that let's you argue every side of every point because it's a amalgam of garbage written by idiots with the occasional line of wisdom sprinkled in.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Kind of like how we love watching old Tom and Jerry cartoons, but would generally prefer to lightly forget how those cartoons contained frequent racist caricatures towards indians, island natives, black people, etc.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

But the ones who remain get worse and worse.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just as long as they get rid of dungeons and dragons. Everyone knows that's the real danger in our society.

[–] socialsecurity@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Rockstar paid for part of that as PR stunt