There's a lot of overlap between the most terminally online "rad"""fem""s and kiwifarmers, so there's also a nonzero chance you're right.

This is not correct.

Contrary to the earlier notion that addiction is predominantly a substance dependency, research now suggests that any source or experience capable of stimulating an individual has addictive potential. This has led to a paradigm shift in the psychiatric understanding of behavioural addictions. These can refer to a range of behaviors such as gambling, video gaming, and sexual practices. Hypersexual behavior and pornography addiction come to the fore when the behavior becomes intensive, out of the individual’s control, and persists in that pattern despite harmful consequences and risk of harm to one’s emotional and/or physical health.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26318318221116042

I did think her use of a first person pronoun there was a bit odd, but I didn't put that together. You might be onto something.

That would mean that they actually are responsible. I don't think that's correct, at best they complained to payment processors to make them enforce their pre-existing bullshit rules. That's where the problem lies IMO, those corporations should not be allowed to ban paying for legal goods and services, especially since they have formed a cartel.

Sir: If it's illegal, please notify the authorities. If it's not illegal, then I'll have to politely ask you to fuck off.

If you can substantiate that, might be good to pass to someone in journalism... "Visa allies with TERFs" makes an epic headline ;)

Apparently they already got caught defending a pedo staffer

What in the world is the litmus test for that

Has anyone been convicted of this?

No, they went too far in the opposite direction. "Okay we all got sent here for murder, whoring, and illicit trafficking, so let's switch to punishing those with person and fines."

If prisoner colonists put you in prison is it double prison?

They might be referring to the 90s, post Mortal Kombat.

A lot of games got blood censorship in a lot of countries.

Even before that I know some games like Contra they replaced the infected "humans" with robots.

Not really - seems like a pretty accurate description

Isn't that the case though?

Kinda correct, it was a ratings issue. The problem was that we didn't have an 18+ rating for video games - if your game was deemed 18+ then you couldn't sell it here. Sex, depictions of drug use, and a couple of other things I can't remember right now are reasons for an instant 18+ rating.

Bethesda got told they couldn't sell it to anyone in Australia, so they compromised to drugs that didn't actually exist.

Left 4 Dead had something similar with the gore; if I remember correctly, L4D rating submission referred to the zombies as "monsters" (or something) and passed while L4D2 referred to the zombies as "infected people".. because they were now people, our ratings board shit the bed protected the children and gave it 18+ until they removed the bodies and gore. It was patched back in by Valve when we got an 18+ rating.

South Park: The Stick of Truth has/had some good censored scenes about this, graphically describing Randy being probed by an alien while the graphic of a koala sits in the background. These were patched out too I think (or I downloaded a mod).

We still have people like these lobbying against porn on Steam, but the overall situation got a lot better when we got an 18+ rating.

what the fuck

Talk about braindead / misguided legislature.

Did no one play "Detroit Become Incestual Rapist"?

They weren't pushing for credit card processors to block payments for specific games. They were pushing for the payment processors to block money to Steam entirely, which is why Steam caved and instead removed a small list of games. It was a compromise to allow credit card companies to keep doing business with them. Overall it's pretty small potatoes--a small but vocal group, a small and worthless collection of games. People are understandably worried about the precedent of giving in to censorship at the demand of a group like this, but there are enough things to worry about right now that I'm not going to give it much thought until I hear the slope has slipped further than this.