Project 2025 co-creater behind Steam's porn game ban
Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been In The Works For A Year, Driven By right-wing Project 2025 co-creator and Trump adminstration budget director, Russel Vought
>Russel Vought is a conservative political analyst and government official serving as the director of the Office of Management and Budget. He is one of the central figures in the creation of Project 2025, an initiative designed to force right-wing political policies into law in the United States. Much of Project 2025's wishlist has started to come into play, with mass deportations, a ban on DEI programs, and changes to energy and climate change policies in effect, and the program also suggests "banning p*rnography and shutting down tech and telecoms companies that allow access to adult material," which is where we're at now.
>"We came up with an idea on p*rnography, to make it so that p*rn companies bear the liability for underage use, as opposed to the person who visits the website. We've got a number of states that are passing this, and the p*rn company then says 'you know what, I'm not doing business in state', which, of course, is entirely what we want," he continues. "We would have a national ban on p*rnography if we could."
>By removing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 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.
>Russel Vought is a conservative political analyst and government official serving as the director of the Office of Management and Budget. He is one of the central figures in the creation of Project 2025, an initiative designed to force right-wing political policies into law in the United States. Much of Project 2025's wishlist has started to come into play, with mass deportations, a ban on DEI programs, and changes to energy and climate change policies in effect, and the program also suggests "banning p*rnography and shutting down tech and telecoms companies that allow access to adult material," which is where we're at now.
>"We came up with an idea on p*rnography, to make it so that p*rn companies bear the liability for underage use, as opposed to the person who visits the website. We've got a number of states that are passing this, and the p*rn company then says 'you know what, I'm not doing business in state', which, of course, is entirely what we want," he continues. "We would have a national ban on p*rnography if we could."
>By removing Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, 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.
