Steam now bans games that "violate the standards of banks and payment processors"

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only777 said:

Mar1217 said:

The rule seems so vague in application that it basically means they either don't mean to really use it or to reserve their rights to basically ban anything they could deem inappropriate in any case.

This is my issue with all of this.

I agree with removing insest, rape and CP games.  But the law should be crystal clear.

Even then, you get into muddy grey areas, because people have had these real life experiences and should have the right to make art about them. So just blanket banning games with these themes doesn’t work either cause you might end up banning a genuine artistic exploration of a survivor.

You really HAVE to go on a case by case basis to evaluate what is being communicated and how. This is why genuine human oversight and moderation is essential.

That‘s also why laws are often actually quite vaguely written and allow for lots of wiggle room, for experts like judges and attorneys to determine if laws were actually broken. Once you put down very precise language, you run the risk of affecting people you didn’t intend to affect.

Obviously I don’t want exploitative content on these platforms either, but the solution should be closer to a rating board authority than a line in the sand imo.

And, again, payment processors should have absolutely no say over artistic expression.