Just curious

[bigd]

So steam allows porn games? I mean, we have kids using steam to play games and these porn games are easy access.

[Punished Rusty Shackleford]

there are parental controls to filter them out. And if the kid can get around that I'm sure they've seen much worse on the internet.

[Chompman]

There is a filter to prevent seeing them and as a parent it falls on you to monitor what your children do online if it's a issue for you.

[Realigo Actual]

The new Steam Families thing has a way to restrict accounts, so that makes a Steam account safe specifically to play games as long as it uses this restricted account type.

I definitely do not think that the Steam community at large is kid safe.

[AmaiAmai]

I don't have a single one of those games (who knows, maybe there is one I haven't touched that was given away for free).

However, two important things:

1. Any game can be modded to be 18+ , I've even seen the Roblox mods thanks to an article on a feminist blog I read to get a good laugh daily. What are you going to do about that?

2. Ultimately, no matter what anyone says or what they want to claim, it's ultimately a parent's job to police and moderate their child's actions online There is only so much a platform or a community can do before it becomes a burden. The platform didn't have kids and neither did the community, the parents did.

3. Any parent that has that much objection to content on a platform can simply keep their kids off it.

4. All I can say about parenting beliefs is that it's misguided to think that shielding "kids" eyes from reality will make them not engage or participate in similar content.

Advertisements on and from Google can also contain such content and I have never seen anyone complain to Google about that. Websites can be hacked (like that time Disney was) and such content posted on it, TV shows have a lot of sexualization, ads on TV, fashion ads, social media, influencers, etc.

Pretending it doesn't exist won't stop exposure.

[ReBoot]

bigd lähetti viestin:

So steam allows porn games? I mean, we have kids using steam to play games and these porn games are easy access.

Kids have parents. It's the parents' job to set up parental controls on the kid's account.

[Muppet among Puppets]

Thats what i dont get, instead of people settings things for their kids,
the whole internet should be set for kids,
if you listen to some people.

[ꉔꏂ꒐꒒ꇙ]

bigd lähetti viestin:

So steam allows porn games? I mean, we have kids using steam to play games and these porn games are easy access.

Stop acting like "kids" are innocent. They like looking at stuff they shouldn't and they'll go looking for it even if one thing doesn't give them access to it, a bunch of other places will (plus the crowd they hang with)

Plus, parents have to do their job and parent. It isn't Steams job to do that.

Muppet among Puppets lähetti viestin:

the whole internet should be set for kids,

No, it shouldn't. Kids shouldn't be trying to access stuff they shouldn't (like porn sites etc) everything shouldn't be changed to please them. Parents are a parent for a reason.

[Muppet among Puppets]

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Muppet among Puppets lähetti viestin:

the whole internet should be set for kids,

No, it shouldn't. Kids shouldn't be trying to access stuff they shouldn't (like porn sites etc) everything shouldn't be changed to please them. Parents are a parent for a reason.

You can not reply to something i didnt say, by leaving out important parts in the quote.

[=(^ ^)=]

I think those parents should stop to make their kids use the internet.

And porn games are fun to play.

[Reaper]

Villgarious lähetti viestin:

bigd lähetti viestin:

So steam allows porn games? I mean, we have kids using steam to play games and these porn games are easy access.

I am confused as to what you are curious about?

Are you curious if Steam does have porn games? But you seem to already know that there are porn games.

So what was the actual point of this post?

The point is, once again, someone being offended by adult games trying to purify the internet for their own morals despite it being a very easily changed preference in the Steam settings. They just went looking for a problem to get a reaction about.

[Chika Ogiue]

bigd lähetti viestin:

So steam allows porn games? I mean, we have kids using steam to play games and these porn games are easy access.

Amazing how you have zero issue with the photo-realistic portrayal of grotesque ultra violence in games also sold on Steam. But no, as always it's human companionship that's evil and corrupting...

[Crazy Tiger]

OP is late to the party.

And please, not hiding behind the boring "but the kids..". Just be real and say you don't like those games.

It's fine if a store sells stuff you don't like. Use the filters.
And you know what? Kids that want easy acces to porn stuff use Google, not Steam.

[Nebgama]

it is still a misnomer to justify parental controls on steam account. Anyone can browse steam without an account and the only thing stopping NSFW games in that case is the age confirmation lock out which can be set to the correct date to enter.

This means a 10 - 12 year old can if they are smart enough game the system.

At the same time we as patrons are not allowed to upload Porn to the platform but because it makes them a dollar its ok for them to do so.

it does not matter anyway soon we wil have porn passports they are coming guys and that means all of us will have to prove ourselves and our age legitimately, it will also be a tracking system at the same time. It will also if you are into it show how seedy you are to any outside body tracking that data.

Europe and Australia are both heading towards porn passports and after that it will potentially go global. In the future online it could mean that platforms like steam will fall inline at least for those locales.

I do agree its up to the parents to police their own kids, well the govts world wide will step in instead and bring a forced regulation in some locales. IMO they should teach everyone how to use pi walls or similar tech instead which gives the parents the ability to block porn related content LAN wide, that way we are not forced into a passport.

Does not matter it will be forced anyway in these locales but i would say how rampant CSAM related issues are online today then it will eventually be a global thing. It does not sit well with me because i know its also a guise so that it will be missued as a tracking system too while under the guise of doing something positve.

[Chika Ogiue]

Nebgama lähetti viestin:

it is still a misnomer to justify parental controls on steam account. Anyone can browse steam without an account and the only thing stopping NSFW games in that case is the age confirmation lock out which can be set to the correct date to enter.

Nope. Adult tagged content cannot be seen without a Steam account. Try it using a browser with which you have not logged in, you'll get different errors depending on the content.

[Nebgama]

well that has changed in recent times then, i recall that NSFW content was only behind a DOB filter at one point but i have not checked that for a good while.

You are correct i just checked now and you need to be logged in which will mean that the account has to be setup correctly.