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[–] Wytch@lemmy.zip 201 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"All these porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists so desperate to get their hands on rape-my-little-sister incest games they’re now exchanging clues on how to find them so that they don’t all die overnight," Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist tweeted

Ah, so this was a rational, scientific study-based campaign centered around ensuring the health and well-being of society, and not at all an emotionally-charged crusade to take material away from people you find repulsive based on content you personally object to. Got it.

[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Melinda speaks like she's on 4chan

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 4 days ago

There's a lot of overlap between the most terminally online "rad"""fem""s and kiwifarmers, so there's also a nonzero chance you're right.

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 147 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"All these porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists so desperate to get their hands on rape-my-little-sister incest games they’re now exchanging clues on how to find them so that they don’t all die overnight," Collective Shout co-founder Melinda Tankard Reist tweeted on July 18th.

She sounds deranged.

i wonder what her own perversion is. It's likely quite disturbing - nobody has that much anger and scorn over other people's sex lives and a healthy sex life of their own.

[–] BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.zip 69 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I think she just told us what her thing is, "rape my little sister incest games"

[–] WatDabney@fedia.io 34 points 5 days ago

I did think her use of a first person pronoun there was a bit odd, but I didn't put that together. You might be onto something.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 111 points 5 days ago (18 children)

Australia is also the same place where they had to switch the word "drugs" out with "chems" in Fallout, and video games have to have green blood. That whole place is ass backwards and upside down, as one would expect given its geographical location.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 35 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As an Australian this is accurate, remember it is illegal here to share nude photos or porn if the woman has small breasts! Because protect the children

[–] Nerdulous@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What in the world is the litmus test for that

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

If they don't think "BAZONGAS!" when they see them, then they're too small.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The country started life as a prison with prison rules, seems they forgot to get rid of those rules when they became a real country

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 5 days ago

No, they went too far in the opposite direction. "Okay we all got sent here for murder, whoring, and illicit trafficking, so let's switch to punishing those with person and fines."

If prisoner colonists put you in prison is it double prison?

[–] 9bananas@feddit.org 13 points 4 days ago

it's dumb that that's the reason for the change...but i honestly associate that kind of fantasy language with fallout in general.

makes it feel more like a parallel world, close but not quite like our own, and helps suspension of disbelief!

overall a good change, imho, for a very dumb reason...silver linings, i guess...

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Morphine was switched to Med-X (worldwide) due to refusal for classification in Australia for Fallout 3 in 2008. Fallout has used the word "chems" in every country since the start I thought.

Are you claiming that all video games have to have green blood to be sold in Australia?

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[–] SalamenceFury@lemmy.world 62 points 5 days ago (4 children)

People thinking porn addiction causes all the problems in society, must be a day ending in Y.

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[–] redwattlebird@lemmings.world 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Alright, time to research and rat these idiots out. The fact that they tried to ban Detroit: Become Human is enough for me to know that they're not gamers at all and are just cookers.

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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 47 points 4 days ago (3 children)

https://www.gameshub.com/news/article/australian-anti-porn-group-collective-shout-escalates-its-war-for-video-game-censorship-2736180

Collective Shout is a self-described feminist non-partisan organization, but has alleged ties with anti-trans and conservative organizations. The group has developed a reputation as a sort of puritan crusade that targets everything from Detroit: Become Human to Tyler, the Creator.

This one quote tells me what kind of people Collective Shout are. First, Collective Shout will go after the low hanging fruit and then will move to LGBT themed games.

[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a hate group and Valve is caving to them.

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[–] BlackLaZoR@fedia.io 42 points 5 days ago (5 children)

This is we can't have nice things.

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[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)
[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

Yup something tells me they like trump

[–] rozodru@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm sure if you dig deep enough into the people involved you'll crawl out with a couple pedos, a few rapists, and more than likely some dudes who are into some really kinky shit.

it's always the case, always. whenever there are groups like this pushing their agenda they're secretly trying to justify themselves.

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[–] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

https://www.collectiveshout.org/ is the group.

https://www.collectiveshout.org/our_team and https://www.collectiveshout.org/collective_shout_board_members - Ensure their names and faces haunt them for every job they go for next.

https://www.collectiveshout.org/partners - Let them know your unhappy with this group that they are supporting.

[–] mranachi@aussie.zone 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Our (winning!) campaign calling on payment processors including Visa and Mastercard to stop processing payments for rape and incest games available on Steam and other platforms has received global media attention."

Well that is not what I was expecting to find on their site...

[–] Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Did no one play "Detroit Become Incestual Rapist"?

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah I was too busy with "epstein island adventure: the trump files"

[–] x0x7@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It seems like politics is more likely to turn someone into a rapist than video games will.

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[–] dil@lemmy.zip 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Lowkey opening up a market for an adult game store that takes crypto for payment

[–] kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why you couldn't just load money into your steam wallet.

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[–] kieron115@startrek.website 25 points 4 days ago

All I wanna know is how fucked up and perverted the porn that they watch is. Anyone taking this hard of a stand against something surely must be projecting.

[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Every accusation is a confession for these sex-negative types. The guy who shrieks the loudest about gender non-conforming people being abominable and vile is usually found 6 months later in Thailand smoking hash and hiring kathoey escorts.

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[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 4 days ago

This group is shooting for very easy targets and they celebrate like they've won hard battles. It's self indulgent but ultimately unimportant, nothing of value was lost here. If they keep it up long enough and choose a target people are actually willing to fight for, things might turn out differently.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 18 points 4 days ago

I'm just happy that for once it's not one of us Americans ruining things for everyone. Still part of the anglosphere, though, so not surprised.

[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 17 points 4 days ago

It'd be kind of funny if some rep from steam just came out and said, 'Wait, the Aussies wanted this? Put it all back! Add on a few more new ones even. This won't stand.'

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"Australian anti-porn group has too much power."

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Simple fix is to call in suspicion of child porn on their computers. Their statement look a lot like projection to me.

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[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (40 children)

Anti-Porn people are fascists PERIOD, oh I heard they (as in the group) like cuties.

We need to document these low-lives & make sure they never get employed ever again. (Because it's what they'd do)

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[–] chrislowles@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago

I don't know how Collective Shout aren't seen as more of a pariah group here like Westboro Baptist Church are in America.

[–] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 13 points 5 days ago

They want things to be like public restrooms in the 60-80s again.

That's a very bad and weird choice of words. Other than that, banning rape-games is not a bad idea, especially from mainstream platforms, though i guess it's not the biggest problem for women's rights right now.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)
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