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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io (www.theguardian.com)
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Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 69 points 4 days ago (2 children)

This group isn't interested in protecting children they're just interested in pushing their own beliefs on everybody else. The easiest way they can do that is to pretend that they're interested in children. Which I'm sure some of them are, but not in the capacity that anyone wants them to be.

It's a classic right-wing tactic. Because nobody wants to be against a law that protects children.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

People like them used to go after books, now games.

https://bannedbooks.library.cmu.edu/aldous-huxley-brave-new-world/

[–] jimjam5@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

“ All dem queer books are hurtin our kids, makin em all gay and shit! “

Says the man standing in front of his trailer with a deep five o’clock shadow spanning his double chin, a permanently stained wife-beating tank top and a prominent beer gut, who has five scrawny & bruised kids, and a wife that bears an eerie resemblance to himself but can’t quite look anyone in the eye.

[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

They're still going after books too. Any and all media, speech, any kind of communication, which is free from their clawing grasp.

[–] Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Oh they're still going after books.

[–] tequinhu@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

Which I'm sure some of them are, but not in the capacity that anyone wants them to be.

I laughed, then I cried :_(