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Steam Censorship: Weaponizing Payment Processors
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This week, Zak and Aaron kindly beg your attention to a very serious matter: the censorship of thousands of NSFW games across Steam and Itch.io at the behest of payment processors like Mastercard.
Prompted by a grassroots organization with far-right connections called Collective Shout, this incident could have far-reaching implications for free speech, result in LGBTQ+ erasure, and mean that corporations become the arbiters of what does and does not constitute art in the future.
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Chapters
1. Intro & Tomfoolery (00:00:00)
2. 21,000 Points for Censorship (00:04:02)
3. Collective Shout Pt. 1 (00:15:39)
4. Morality and Context (00:25:58)
5. Collective Shout Pt. 2 - Erasure (00:35:32)
6. What About Age Ratings? (00:42:30)
7. Applying the Same Logic to Books (00:51:03)
8. Conclusions (00:55:30)
9. Outro & Thank Yous (01:03:10)
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