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Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease payment processors | New rule against "certain kinds" of adult content accompanies removal of "incest" games.
New rule against “certain kinds” of adult content accompanies removal of “incest” games.
On its own, the new rule seems rather vague, with no details on which of the many kinds of "adult only content" would belong in the "certain" subset prohibited by these unnamed payment processors and ISPs. This time, though, it seems Valve is being pressured to implement a new rule on in-game content by outside payment processors, rather than by its own interpretation of speech laws or acceptable social norms. But the fact that Valve apparently sees the need to bend to content rules imposed by other companies could plausibly have wider effects in the future.
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