Steam's Content Crisis: The Censorship Avalanche

Dive into the chaos of the gaming industry in "Steam's Content Crisis: The Censorship Avalanche." Join your host, Snake Daemon, as we dissect the moral panic surrounding the Online Safety Act 2023 and its implications for content censorship on platforms like Steam and itch.io. Discover how financial pressure from credit giants like Visa and Mastercard has led to a mass purge of adult games and what it means for creative freedom in gaming. Is this a noble cause or the start of a content apocalypse?

Get ready to explore the slippery slope of online safety laws, age verification, and the future of gaming expression. Like and share if you care!

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00:00:00 The Steam Censorship Fiasco
00:00:34 Warning Shot
00:00:41 Welcome to the Snake Pit
00:00:52 Diving Deeper
00:01:18 A Double-Edged Sword
00:01:41 The Kicker
00:01:49 Blunt Implementation
00:02:09 Banning Offensive Content
00:02:18 Visa and Mastercard
00:02:24 Financial Censorship
00:02:45 Monopoly on Payments
00:03:09 Games Vanished
00:03:17 Corporate Compliance
00:03:37 Optics and Liability
00:03:43 Is This Censorship?
00:03:50 Privatized Moral Panic
00:04:03 Total Control
00:04:14 They Are The Market
00:04:25 Surgical Precision
00:04:34 Where Do You Draw the Line?
00:04:39 Examples of Banned Content
00:05:03 Video Nasties
00:05:20 If You Can't Buy a Thing
00:05:27 Crumbling Logic
00:05:41 Regulation Without Nuance
00:05:52 Xbox Age Verification
00:06:02 Seems Fair?
00:06:11 Issue with Age Verification
00:06:28 Unnecessary Proof
00:06:54 Covering Corporate Ass
00:07:00 Damage Control
00:07:15 Slippery Slope
00:07:35 About Control
00:07:42 Cost of Expression
00:08:01 A Better Answer
00:08:09 Steam Gift Cards
00:08:31 Pearl-Clutching Morons
00:08:46 Grow a Spine
00:08:54 Cash is King
00:09:06 Bent the Knee
00:09:15 Final Thoughts
00:09:23 Curation vs. Censorship
00:09:30 Ownership and Control
00:09:52 Who's in Charge?
00:09:58 Allowed to Play?
00:10:02 Final Sign-Off