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Don't you mean "The narrow minded" minority? I would seriously say that 99.99999% of GPT members have had and enjoyed a penis in their mouths, or elsewhere. That does not mean we are immoral. Moral or immoral is just a matter of opinion. We all know what opinions are like, everyone has one.
Australian campaign group sparks NSFW game takedowns and a debate about free speech
The removal of thousands of adult video games from digital storefronts has sparked an online outcry, claiming censorship and free speech crackdowns.
The outrage began when Steam, the world's largest PC gaming store, created a new rule saying content on the platform had to adhere to the policies of payment processors including PayPal, Visa and Mastercard.
After the new rule was added about two weeks ago, hundreds of adult-themed games were removed from the platform.
It included games with titles such as Slave Doll, Sex Loving Family and Sex Adventures: Incest Family.
A few days later, a smaller game storefront, itch.io, announced it was delisting all games tagged with not safe for work (NSFW) content.
In a blog post, itch.io founder Leaf Corcoran said the decision to remove all NSFW games without notice was made to satisfy the demands of payment processors while they made changes to their adult content policy.
Mr Corcoran said games would be made public on the store again once its adult content policy had been updated, and if the games adhered to it.
On July 28, the platform updated its policy with specific themes that were prohibited for developers like "Rape, coercion or force-related", "Underage or 'barely legal' themes" and "Incest or pseudo-incest content".
The moves have sparked a huge backlash in parts of the gaming community, describing it as a dangerous precedent of censorship from payment companies and an attack on free speech.
A change.org petition, which has now surpassed 200,000 signatures, accused Mastercard and Visa of "interfering with legal entertainment".
"We demand an end to this censorship of fiction, and the right to choose the stories we enjoy without moral policing," the petition said.
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-03/adult-video-games-removed-from-steam-after-campaign/105597886
The old war cry from the Religious Right was that they were the Moral Majority. I have reversed that position to emphasise that they are dwindling. What I am saying is - not that we Queer Folk are immoral - but that we, along with our rational allies, are having a clandestine war waged against us by small groups of small-minded bigots posing as crusaders. The financial services industry was happy to handle the pink dollar in the past - what argument has persuaded them to involve us in a Feminist fight?