The recently passed SESTA-FOSTA act seeks to punish sex crimes. One important example is 'prostitution'. It >amends the federal criminal code to add a new section that imposes penalties [a list of fines, or...] a prison term of up to 10 years >on a person who, using a facility or means of interstate or foreign commerce, owns, manages, or operates [!] >an interactive computer service (or attempts or conspires to do so) to promote or facilitate the prostitution of another person, This means if you own a website which "promotes" prostitution, you risk a prison term. Similar statements for other sex crimes, e.g. sex with minors exists. The Bill has a broad scope, i.e. one could argue that pic related falls under it.
Large IT companies, like Amazon or Netflix, wanted this bill. Critics say they are better equipped to fend off lawsuits and have the resources to effectively filter relevant content. This could help them to consolidate the market. The ACLU criticized the bill too. Despite that President Trump said "This is a great piece of legislation and it's really going to make a difference."
Steam is banning games in accordance to the bill right now, examples include the catholic school visual novel "Hello Goodbye" (It's good!). Also, they are going after games that feature suggestive themes where the characters are in high school (or younger). This includes almost all visual novels.
Sadly, most people agree with this. Reddit says: Jow ForumsGames/comments/a48t1x/steam_is_banning_sex_games_with_younglooking/ >fucking or "seducing" young women or men are more on the "fucked up" scale than the "its just a game". >No one will go around and deploy some nukes to create the next fallout to shoot some muties, >but its a real possibility that some random guy or woman tries to get young people into their bed. >Its understandable and i honestly support this decision.
What do robots think about this?
I really like Visual Novels, but I'll fear that I won't be able to buy them in the future. Also, tell me, why is Trump on my side again?
Andrew Gonzalez
Good. Degenerate shit, never liked that boring stuff
Anthony White
>anime >degenerate Why are you on Jow Forums again?
Jeremiah Lewis
>Also, tell me, why is Trump on my side again? Is Trump against this? Didn't he sign it into law?
Carson Watson
I don't understand... how the fuck do video games promote prostitution? Is it saying anything that romanticizes it is illegal? Or is it suggesting that it's actually a way for people to go and buy prostitutes? in which case why aren't all dating sites and apps in violation of these laws? I see a decent amount of e sluts promoting themselves on those places, it's also literally for most of those apps the sole purpose of their function.
I don't care, any slut busting is good imo at this point.
Angel Sullivan
Doubt it will go through and people can always fall onto freedom of speech laws.
Mason Campbell
I think it's ironic that normalfags have more trouble distinguishing fiction from reality than people like me who spent most of their lives on the internet engaging in copious amounts of escapism. The world is a strange place.
Herd mentality, if one person does it then everyone will.
Games don't promote that though, people play them mindlessly
Jose Davis
It's not the video game. It's the website. Sex with minors is sexual assault, so if they sell a game which shows sexual assault, it can be seen as "promoting" it. They can't ban the games, because the supreme court rules that they are protected under the first amendment. >dating apps The bill doesn't cover dating apps. They cover only websites.
Cameron Cox
apps which connect to the internet = internet services = covered under websites
Isaac Hall
You shouldn't expect common sense from the legal system.
Adrian Wright
Steam is a normalfag botnet and I don't care at all for it.
Aaron Barnes
The wording, and previous precedence covers apps which connect to the internet, any provider of "interactive computer services"
fat chance they'll enforce it evenly though, can you imagine the normie butthurt if they took away the hope they get from tinder and the like.
Is this a europoor law? The only time steam does stuff like this is to follow laws, I'm sure gaben doesn't mind it on steam, probably masturbates to hentai himself.
Isaiah Brooks
> Dumbfuck ameritard doesn't know his congress are responsible for passing this bill
Try reading OP's post again. It can be helpful once in a time.
Ryan Edwards
>Sex with minors is sexual assault, so if they sell a game which shows sexual assault, Well unless they wrote new laws "sex with minors" mean real life. Video games aren't real life. The laws have stated that any sexualization of any characters under the age of 18 is illegal, for the most part. So if they sell games with blatantly under aged characters having sex that should have always been illegal. This has applied to art, I get it though. While the old laws should have covered this it probably just makes it easier for websites to ban this type of content without getting some crazy lawsuit slapped on them.
Nathaniel Adams
FINALLY!! Some damn quality control. I guess this still likely a precedent for worse things to come, but the death of VNs is always a good thing in my book. I'm fine with letting these go extict before taking action.
Landon King
The death of VN may be good but the way that its being done is bad.
Christopher Gray
Good, hope everyone who enjoys that shit gets skin cancer and dies painfully
Landon Murphy
I hate normalfags like the ones in this thread so fucking much, they just have to ruin everything for everyone and will never be satisfied until everyone but themselves is miserable.
Grayson Flores
LMAOOOOO fuck steam and reddit cucks. I'm still going to fap to the CG galleries posted on the internet. Localized Steam VNs are garbage anyway.
Gabriel Gonzalez
>killing someone is murder >1000000s of games promoting murder on steam
Jordan Myers
cute pic OP, do you have any more yuri?
Aaron Roberts
I'm far from normalfag and I hate all of you deranged weeb autist faggots. I hope your sad retarded life keeps getting worse until you finally decide to put a 12 gauge in your mouth.
Levi Powell
VN translators will simply resume doing that they stopped a while ago for some reason: replacing every instance of the word "high school" with "college" and occasionally explaining that a character is actually of-age and just looks young.
Levi Bailey
Bruh we got a whole board for this:
Joseph Garcia
Holy shit! I really like this Jow Forums place. It's much better than 4channel
Justin Cox
Good, now Steam won't have a total monopoly over all PC games anymore. Just buy the VNs from a better shop.
Christian Scott
Honestly, who cares about VNs on Steam? If VNs were multiplayer and all and relied on Steam in similar ways CS:GO and Dota do? Fair enough. But that's not the case. Nothing of value is lost from having them gone from Steam. People who published their VNs on Steam will just publish them elsewhere. If anything, this keeps the normies at bay, and shields VNs from the (admittedly weak) possibility of them becoming mainstream.
That being said this whole thing only reminds me that the legal system is too retarded to dissociate fiction from reality and that games where you can kill people to your heart's content are somehow more acceptable. Does the government lowkey want people to kill eachother?
Chase Baker
Good why would you buy one from them of all places. They cuck the novels too much.
Anthony Ramirez
Just make all the characters 18
Benjamin Perez
>Honestly, who cares about VNs on Steam? VN developers, given that it's the biggest distribution platform on the PC, which is the biggest platform for VNs. Why do you think devs don't need sales in order to make games?
>games where you can kill people to your heart's content are somehow more acceptable Blame that on the absurd Puritanical values that predate the legal system in this country. The hysteria that results whenever someone so much as shows a boob ("wardrobe malfunction") is mind-boggling.
Nolan Reed
Excellent, another convert for the coming chan/nel war.
If you had read the reddits comments, you would have known that the >she's a 1000 year old dragon >she's actually 18, etc... doesn't work, because Steam doesn't take any risks. So they overblock, i.e. they remove things that are probably legal, but they don't know for sure. Several developers complained that they made great efforts to show that the characters are 18+, but they still got blocked.
