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Meanwhile Twitch is allowing more sexual content and Steam has for a little while now has allowed porn on its store. If you ever sort by most viewed or sold on any of these platforms it is hard to miss at this point and just another sign that society is deteriorating. This also won't change anything, not when people are less social which once again lockdowns didn't help with and led to an increase in porn consumption. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41443-020-00380-w

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Better that than sexual repression leading to more rapes like in the more "puritan" countries...

Twitch reversed their policy after like a day, and Steam always allowed porn.

“The world is deteriorating” is such a tired lament. Every generation says that, even as the world gets better by every meaningful measure. The word is change. The world is changing. That’s only bad if you think it was perfect when you were young and formed your worldview.

This is a naive take. Since lockdowns there is a number of research that shows that the world has become worse in many ways with mental health on the decline. Since then we also have two ongoing wars, with an increase in support for far-right policies. Your take may as well be the "this is fine" meme.

>Steam always allowed porn

This is obviously wrong.

Any short term measurement will show blips. It’s like saying climate change isn’t real because it gets colder at night.

On long term scales, everything is improving[1]. This is obvious to anyone whose ancestors were enslaved, unable to marry because of sexual orientation, or rejected for promotion because of gender. The world is not perfect (see the wars you cite) but it is so dramatically more peaceful than historic times that it really takes a huge bias toward doom to think otherwise.

Fair point on Steam, I forgot they switched from an arbitrary and capricious policy to allowing porn in 2018.

1. https://ourworldindata.org/a-history-of-global-living-condit...

You can't dismiss what's going on as a blip. You may be right, but to be more sure that is the outcome, you have to have at least a healthy level of cynicism and work against these issues. Positive change may be the trend on a long term scale, but it is not a given that it continues.

Twitch is reverting that policy

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67747949

Well that's good news, can't blame me though for not keeping up with the reflex decision making that has been going on recently such as with OpenAI.

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