Today, we are re-indexing free adult NSFW content . We are still in ongoing discussions with payment processors and will be re-introducing paid content slowly to ensure we can confidently support the
True, this is good news. But, it should not have come down to the entire fucking government of Japan weighting in on the global impacts of this insane decision!
Is this truly the amount of mountain-moving we have to do to counteract a single organization’s opinion? There is a clear difference in effort required between one side and the other.
The issue isn’t the amount of effort required to undo one action.
It is the complete lack of effort every other time this is done. Gamers Rise Up STILL pretend this is some watershed moment that nobody could have foreseen. And while it is always dangerous to consider The Internet to be a monolith, you can even see threads here where people didn’t care when it was just “incest and furry shit” on Steam.
Let alone when it was basically the entirety of Pornhub a couple years back.
And that is the problem. This kind of shit happens. Why should a megacorp fight it when nobody will care one way or another and this avoids any bad press? Why should news outlets report on it when the outcome will be “Ugh, fucking scammer journalists. How fucking dare they put that behind a paywall or have ads”?
So they just kind of acquiesce to the loudest voice in the room until people DO care.
True, this is good news. But, it should not have come down to the entire fucking government of Japan weighting in on the global impacts of this insane decision!
Is this truly the amount of mountain-moving we have to do to counteract a single organization’s opinion? There is a clear difference in effort required between one side and the other.
The issue isn’t the amount of effort required to undo one action.
It is the complete lack of effort every other time this is done. Gamers Rise Up STILL pretend this is some watershed moment that nobody could have foreseen. And while it is always dangerous to consider The Internet to be a monolith, you can even see threads here where people didn’t care when it was just “incest and furry shit” on Steam.
Let alone when it was basically the entirety of Pornhub a couple years back.
And that is the problem. This kind of shit happens. Why should a megacorp fight it when nobody will care one way or another and this avoids any bad press? Why should news outlets report on it when the outcome will be “Ugh, fucking scammer journalists. How fucking dare they put that behind a paywall or have ads”?
So they just kind of acquiesce to the loudest voice in the room until people DO care.