these people have been planning on this for lot longer than a year. christians have been trying to ban video games for decades. the only reason this group hasn't come after more games is because they know they don't yet have enough politicians behind them to manage it.

So how does this tie into what's happening now? Part of Vought and Project 2025's plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). This law currently protects platform holders, providing immunity for any content uploaded to said platform that third-party users created.

By removing Section 230, platform holders, like Steam, would be liable for any "illegal" content uploaded to the platform, as opposed to those creating and uploading said content. If Steam were found guilty of hosting this content, the company could be hit with huge fines. Therefore, Steam, Itch, and many other platforms would likely place a blanket ban on any adult content, mitigating any risk of fines or other legal action. This, as pointed out on Reddit, would affect all forms of user-generated content, including fan art, mods, and videos, not just games themselves.

Seems like a deceptive headline.

The real takeaway is: Project 2025 guy also wants to do the platform-level censorship thing, but by removing legal protections (Section 230) instead of using payment processors.

Anthony Comstock.

J. Edgar Hoover.

Joseph McCarthy.

Roy Cohn.

Donald Trump.

Willful traitors all. Have it writ upon thy meager graves, "destroyed the union just so people wouldn't masturbate."

There's more, I know. But those fellas are all linked.

I mean, I kind of guessed this way back when Collective Shout pushed their action.

I actually had a comment removed here on Lemmy when I brought up how this was "US politics/elections affecting your life as gamers", because the mods insisted it was purely an Australian action, and my comment was off-topic. But we live in a global online world. There's no way that US politics wouldn't have a huge effect on this type of censorship.

They've been playing the very long game of trying to control human behavior for centuries, not just decades. The one thing to note is that the United States began as a bunch of colonies run by ministers, and the fundies want to go back to that theocratic form of rule. That by the 19th century the temperance movement came from the dozens of Christian subsects. Yeah, they also extended it to anything that did not define as "Christian" behavior, including choice of ideologies (socialism = bad), gender (male or female = good), source of knowledge (Bible > science), beliefs (they have veiled Islamophobia), and even eating and sexual habits.

Now -- based on their basic blueprint -- they want to artificially induce the Second Coming by trying to get their fucking project off the ground, and impose control on everyone else.

BTW, any collapse or devolution of the United States and the Western world would come off as a wonderful realization for Putin, Dugin, Kyrill, and their cronies. That Jesus himself in his actual Middle Eastern appearance and acts of progressivism would be considered an enemy by fundies expecting a "whitened" Jesus.

Calling it now: What we currently know as “Project 2025” will reveal itself to be the largest conspiracy of this millenium. The push for internet ID verification "to protect the kids" in UK, US, Canada, EU, Australia is 100% a collective effort. Fuck this timeline, we will not comply!

Not surprised. stripe, PayPal, visa and Mastercard wouldn't just give up to millions of dollars in fees just because a small Australian group asked for it

Your title is misleading & false. The article is technically correct, but clunky.

Consider the title, Steam's Content Removal Could Be A Wider Consequence Of Project 2025. The article misspells Russell's name frequently. "Part of Vought and Project 2025's plans are to remove Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA)". So the Steam content removal...is a consequence. Who is dishing out the consequences?

Louis Rossmann will tell you, it's Collective Shout. Collective Shout has no relation to Russell Vought...or even America. It's a ragtag group of 1067 Australian fuckheads that complained to Mastercard, Visa who then put pressure on Steam. And yes. This was enabled thanks to Russell Vought & removal of Section 230 of the CDA.

Russell Vought isn't a good guy by any means, but this specifically was done by Collective Shout's 1067 Aussies bitching to American credit card companies & American businesses, threatening them & trying to dictate what they can sell to Americans. It's...truly infuriating. I don't go to their mom's place of work & smack the dick out of her mouth, I don't write them emails & tell them how to run Australia. So kindly return the favor, don't fuck with the US. Like what the hell.

Not entirely surprising if true.

Project 2025 goal is to spread their backwards ideology across the globe. They want to see the world burn.

Did you read all 900 pages? I sure skimmed but didn't read it fully. Its entirely possible.

More importantly, if we dont act collectively all over the globe to end this tide of fascism only more sensorship will come.

This is not an end but a beginning.

Oh hey. GamerGate was used by Christian fundamentalists to censor video games. How interesting. I thought they cared about Freeze Peach?

Just stopped over there. They are downvoting anyone who brings up price hikes from tariffs. Their handlers are not happy with the few coming to their senses.

It’s almost like they are pathetic cult members. Who can’t give an inch in an intelligent conversation. Fucking losers.