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They tried to do the same to OnlyFans, but lost that battle


Onlyfans actually made financial sense, though, because chargeback rates are very high. This move makes no financial sense at all.


This is absolutely not true. OF's chargeback rates are incredibly low. Vastly lower than, say, Amazon. I have this directly from friends who work in this space. Do you have a citation that shows otherwise?


Didn't onlyfans severely limit the type of content creators could make and distribute through the platform, just like valve here?


Yes, recently they put in place a ban on fursuits and other animal-wear since the payment processors determined that it would promote bestiality. I am not joking.


Yep. Even showing lactation gets you banned now.


Any animal or just human?


I would hope using animals in OF content is illegal and banned anyway

I was talking about human lactation. OF was forced to ban it because these same groups perceived it as "obscene" which is truly nonsensical


So as a farmer I wouldn’t be allowed to be on OF showing how to milk a cow?


Haha, dunno, someone will have to find out


That's a weird thing to ban.


> Didn't onlyfans severely limit the type of content creators could make and distribute through the platform, just like valve here?

Well, this coverage identifies two restrictions that Valve is enforcing:

(1) No video footage of humans. Animation only.

(2) No incest.

Onlyfans clearly hasn't implemented restriction (1).

If they've implemented (2), that seems like much less of a problem as applied to onlyfans than to animated content on Steam. But even in the case of Steam, there just isn't a constituency for being pro-incest. This is the last political fight you'd want to get into.


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Claiming you need to be pro-incest to support the existance of incest themed video games is as absurd as claiming you need to be pro-murder to support much of the entire Action movie genre.


> But even in the case of Steam, there just isn't a constituency for being pro-incest. This is the last political fight you'd want to get into.

Of course the constituency that is openly pro-incest is small. On the other hand, I believe the constituency for a quite encompassing freedom of speech has to be taken seriously.


I think the matter here is the activists are being strategic now and chipping away by targeting very specific content to get delisted. As you rightly said, most people are not going to sign their name to defend a incest/non-con fringe game specifically, so the counter petition is necessarily going to be on a broad ideal and therefore diffuse


Yeah. I find sex games have basically zero appeal to me, period. But either show me the victim or leave them legal.




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