Last week, Steam revealed that it may start removing games that vi🦩o💯late rules put forward by third parties, such as bꦯanks and internet service providers. Around the same time, it was spotted that some adult games were removed from Steam, marking a huge change in practice for a storefront that typically allows alꩲl kinds of controversial material on its platform.
ဣCollective Shout, a so-called feminist group that is anti-pornography (with a founder who is anti-abortion), claimed responsibility for this change on Steam and the removal of the games. In a , it revealed that it had put pressure on payment processors to tell Steam to remove games containing inc*st and sexual abuse.
Steam Was Seemingly Pressured Into Removing Adult Games By Anti-P*rn And Anti-Abortion Groups
"Steam appear♈s to be working through its games and slowly delisting titles tagged with r*pe or inc*st," the statement reads. "On Monday, we counted almost 500 gamesও tagged with r*pe or inc*st. Today, there are 81. We want to see them all gone!"
The claim that ♉almost𓄧 500 games have been removed from Steam for including r*pe and inc*st has been disputed by sources such as .
However, this is far from the first time that Collective Shout has targeted video games, and previously, with very dubiou♑s claims. Ana Valens reported as much for Vice, but then found that her article had been taken down (accessible via the ), reportedly for concerns around the subject matter. However, her findings 𒐪about Collective Shout are all publicly available, showing how the group doesn't just limit its campaigning to controversial p*rn games on Steam.
In 2018, it shared a that called for stores to stop selling 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Detroit: Become Human ♛in Australia for depicting child abuse, even though it condemns the act and has the player fight the abuser.
"Family violence is a big issue in this country and is not something that should ever be considered entertainment," the petition reads. "Shame on SONY for allowing the release of such filth, and I call on Australia to take a stand aga♐inst it and ban it from sales on our shores."
Previously, the group against GTA 5 for allowing players to kill fema🐼le NPCs. In the petition, they cited an instance of a player purposely killing a sex worker.
Valen's reporting also highlights how the campaign against Steam was co-signed by other groups, including the US-based National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE). This group takes its efforts further, and is against comprehensive sex education and the sale of sex toys, having previous⭕ly Etsy's ban of items such as adult sex dolls. Similarly, it has led a against HuniePop, calling on Steam to remove the game.
All of this is to say that Collective Shout, NCOSE, and similar anti-p*rn groups are unlikely to stop at these easier targets. Given the wording of the concession made by Steam, all a group would have to do is get a payment processor on its side, and any game could bꦿe removed - and the groups have a history of misrepresenting a game and its contents.
At the time of writing, the original report is still unavailabl♛e on Vice. It remains to be seen if the group is successful in having more games removed from Steam.
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- Valve
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- 💜 September 12, 2003
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- Steam
