You have to be able to call a thing what it is if you’re criticizing it.

My loot box coverage would’ve had so many teeth removed if I couldn’t talk about gambling mechanics.

YT either knows this and is covering for companies, or it’s run by the biggest dumbasses on Earth. Or, y’know, both.

Moral panic and financial censorship are interconnected, you don’t have the latter without the former, you can’t engage in the former without risking the latter. The moment dislike or disagreement becomes a question of moral decency, MasterCard is ready to make the decision *for you*

the complete and utter disarray that was “are adult early access games allowed?” Which Steam kept contradicting itself on in policy and action

But games journalists don’t care about adult games censorship so they don’t know the history

"simultaneous depictions of a nude adult and a child" is an absolutely ridiculous definition of csam that is so overbroad it would include among others the literal Sistine Chapel, and require arresting just about every museum curator in the world.