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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io
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They precisely can and they kinda just did. "Think of the children" is the magic phrase to shut down critical thinking and give you carte blanche to do whatever you want.
Not always. School shootings happen and suddenly crickets on gun control. "Think of the children" only applies to moral outrage, not tangible physical threat prevention. Also applies to school lunches and any other actual tangible thing to ACTUALLY benefit general child welfare.
Sure, I implied moral outrage. It's not like they actually give a damn about the children.
"think of the children" WRT school ahootings means more police in American schools and arming American teachers.
They want a nanny state to do their parenting for them, cus they are shit parents who spend their time petitioning the government about things they could just fucking unplug.
Bingo. They're just projecting their failures as inadequate parents because they didn't realize how hard child rearing would be after knocking up their high school sweetheart and buying a white picket fence. It's always the same case.
They are quite literally lying about the content of games like GTA V. They pulled the whole "the goal of the game is killing women" schtick
The same way they always do: "WONT SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!?!?!?!1111"