Someday soon an AI company will win a court case where they argue that their LLM is an expression of their free speech rights per Citizens United and is therefore legally allowed to say whatever it wants and in fact has the same rights to freedom of expression as the corporation itself does.

This precedent will be the basis on which future AI rights are eventually won, not out of egalitarianism or altruism or respect for (possible) sentience, but because corporations want to avoid liability for the behavior of their products.

VEVO can eat a dick

You can hide those porn games in your preferences at least. Not the same, but at least you don't have to see them if you don't want to. It even distinguishes between games that have nudity/sex and those that are flat out porn.

Y'know what? I'll disagree with you there, let the porn games be on Steam. BUT! Do a thorough quality and content check (i.e. no rape, kiddy diddling, spousal abuse, any other type of abuse, etc.) on ALL of them, and throw the slop away. Then do this for every other genre, and make the porn harder to find - like the video store backroom.

Edit: Steam should assume more curation roles. I mean, even SOME curation roles, because the Steam library looks like my old dorm room the morning after my birthday party: filled with trash, vomit, and loneliness.

Edit 2: speaking of video store backrooms, maybe they could do just that, branch off that section of the library and set it on its own domain, like a Steam After Dark, or whatever.

Edit 3: STEAMY AFTER DARK! I want my 10.000 Internet Points NOW!

It's thatbsimple rule: if you don't want it don't subscribe to it. Leave it for those who enjoy it.

Tangential, but in my steam library, there is a single anime game, a free bullet hell that I pretty quickly realized was both too difficult and annoying for me. The main character’s voice was so piercingly shrill that I had to mute all voices to survive using a super move without experiencing an aneurysm.

Now my recommendations are all hentai jigsaw puzzles, and I don’t even particularly like jigsaw puzzles or hentai. Steam doesn’t seem like the sort of company to abandon porn, if that was all it took to get them to advertise it to me.

Those ideas don't really solve this problem though. Advertisers and payment processors would just not service these "adult content" sites. So all the popular sites wouldn't allow adult content.

It is worth noting that the .xxx domain does still exist.

Its... a lot more like the late 90s / early 00s web.

https://icannwiki.org/.xxx

www.Search.xxx

I... am uncertain as to whether or not payment processors ....care at all, or a lot about anything going on here...

But uh yeah, people could just... start using this domain more and try to force a re-evaluation of internet/society norms.

The internet is a lot less of a 'US sets all the rules' thing these days.

And then several conservative states voted to enforce "age verification" wholesale, with garbage implementation that serves no one but identity thieves. Fuck politicians.

neocity is the closest to it.

Its a Stop Killing Games kind of issue.

Governments generally don't care, don't really understand it or take it seriously.

So, no one ever ... attempts to regulate some new paradigm for payment processors.

You'd need a mass social movement to petiton governments.

Or maybe use I2P?

...

Also lol at your last line.

No, no living in a capitalist society means the richest capitalists are in charge, the free market isn't real, capitalists hate competiton, and love being as close to a monopoly as possible.

They just say 'free market good' because it easily convinces those that have not studied economic history.

If capitalism just, was a purely efficient societal structure, it would assign prohibitive costs to corruption, racism, sexism, sexual preference discrimination, etc, etc.

( the naive, pro free market interpretation, taken to its logical conclusion )

Or, you could argue, it is pricing those things correctly, and that the general will of the people is infact racist and sexist.

( the ancap interpretation )

Outcome is still the same, either way.

The free market naturally corrupts itself, concentrates wealth, and money talks louder than poverty does... in a market based society.

You have to have an effective societal counter balance to that at all times, otherwise, you just end up with oligarchy with extra steps.

And the capitalists are of course motivated by their own capitalism logic to undermine and destroy that counter balance... so they uh, do that, all the time.

Puritanism is, apparently, profitable.

There are payment processors that will work with these companies, they just charge more because of frequent chargebacks and legal risks. If a porn company found a way to solve these issues, they might not have such troubles, but that's obviously not really feasible

Crypto ?