This is a conspicuously bad decision, and one that betrays a deep lack of nuance about art and entertainment in general - something that seems relevant to the largest digital distributor of PC games in the world. In a landmark obscenity case, the threshold test for pornography was famously articulated by Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart as “ I know it when I see it.” Unfortunately, it appears that the digital games distributor Valve has a harder time making the distinction between art and base titillation than a 50-year-old judge back in 1964.Īccording to one of the game’s developers, Valve’s distribution platform, Steam, recently removed You Must Be 18 or Older to Enter from its online store on the basis that it was porn (which, again, it is not). To be clear, it is not actually porn, a rather important differentiation. You Must Be 18 or Older to Enter is a game about porn.
