mrhands

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I do UI programming for AAA games and I have opinions about adult games


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Listen to the adult content creators screaming about this. This will not benefit users, and it will be extremely expensive for sites to implement. If this government handout to the companies making this "age verification" snake oil doesn't receive a lot of pushback, the people in power will wall off the rest of the Internet too.


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First, thank you for a lovely "yes, and" post, that's always appreciated. ❤ Unfortunately, I have an answer for your most pressing question:

What is certain: ""Someone"" doesn't like adult content.

NCOSE, formerly known as Morality in Media, is behind most of these shenanigans. They're lobbying credit card companies in the US to stop processing payments for adult entertainment, and the American legal system agrees:

On July 29, 2022, a federal judge [ruled] that there was enough evidence to show that Visa “knowingly provid[ed] the tool used to complete the crime” of distributing child sex abuse material. [...] NCOSE continues to call on both major credit card companies to completely sever ties with MindGeek [parent company of Pornhub]

Why would they do this? Here's what they think of pornography:

The Internet and other technological advances have made pornography more accessible than ever before. [...] As a result, pornography use, even among children, is more prevalent and normalized than at any time in human history.

In sum, pornography is a deeply damaging social influence that corrodes relationships, erodes the sensibilities and sexual freedom of consumers, and dehumanizes those used to make it.

This organization does not believe that adult entertainment should exist, and they are winning.


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gods, yeah. i'm from the northshore and i'm glad that some of my old high school friends from the 2000s are out there protesting on behalf of trans kids.

it's a privilege to be able to pack up and go, and i would like to take advantage of that privilege in the next couple of years

How many people had to simultaneously pretend that they, personally, don't masturbate in order to push forward with a straight face a proposal to verify age by turning on your webcam

Also, there's two separate issues in "protecting kids from porn," and neither of them requires this. One is protecting kids who don't want to see porn, and an "are you 18 y/n" screen fixes that. The other is "protecting" teenagers who very much want to see porn. This is impossible. But an "are you 18 y/n" is all we need to keep up the polite fiction that we tried.

:yeah: In Germany, the Supreme Court ruled the classic age gating inadequate for adult games on Steam and ordered Valve to put up a system that would check government ID on purchase and every time an adult game is launched(!). So Valve decided to just... stop selling adult games to customers in Germany.

in reply to @mrhands's post:

On July 29, 2022, a federal judge [ruled] that there was enough evidence to show that Visa “knowingly provid[ed] the tool used to complete the crime” of distributing child sex abuse material. [...] NCOSE continues to call on both major credit card companies to completely sever ties with MindGeek [parent company of Pornhub]

How does a judge in the country with the world's worst gun problem get to say things like "...knowingly provided the tool used to complete the crime..."? I mean, the double-standard isn't really the issue here, but still -- COME ON.

Just woke up thx for responding. I'm sure someone else can do a full analysis of this, but here are my thoughts.

This is clearly not to educate anyone. This is one big nothingburger lmao to prove a one-sided point — they do cite academic sources, but they don't use any material beyond saying "LOOK WE HAVE PROOF".

Exploitation happens in the porn industry, and it seems most of what NCOSE claims is reasonable on its own merit. Absolutely no one reasonable would disagree porn addiction isn't real, in fact liking porn has a p interesting stigma on the Internet. Not to mention porn does spread harmful behaviour,

But, once again, NCOSE (like any good political organisation for the people) scrubs responsibility from everyone, denies anything is happening and declares the sentient, immoral creature of pornography to be the problem. Case closed.

Make sure to bring your boys when you go to church every Sunday.

Is it just me, or is every single miniscule thing that ALL DYSTOPIAN FICTION EVER has tried to warn humanity about, starting with at least 1984 and probably a lot of literature before that, is becoming unironically and horrifyingly true today?