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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9713450" data-attributes="member: 18">Steam and Itch have both been clear that this is due to payment processors and has nothing to do with UK Online Safety Act. So yeah we can rule that out. But certainly that reminds us that there are other groups with similar goals lobbying the UK government among others.Also worth noting that already the lobbying groups who demanded UK Online Safety Act are saying it didn't go nearly far enough and we have to outright ban/block this and that. It's all so much:[ATTACH=full]412266[/ATTACH]And what they actually literally want is:[ATTACH=full]412267[/ATTACH]Very much with a straight white cis-man on the right end of the boot and everyone else on the wrong. Especially anyone LGBTQ+.But what causes them to make the choices? Is it on the basis on being a protected class or a specific need? Because I'm guessing its the latter, and that will often coincide with being a protected class - particularly someone with a very serious disability, or who is a pensioner or the like, but isn't the same as being because of the class.If it's not them being forced on the basis of being in a protected class - rather than having a specific need - then I'm sorry but that's not even a "sorta" example, that's an organisation making choices based on needs, which can coincide or overlap with protected class status but are not the same as that.And let me assure you - this isn't just a US thing - every responsible, sane, decent government which is handing out resources will sometimes have to put someone ahead in a queue on the basis of need. People get annoyed about it, and I totally get why it would feel bad, but so long as the priorities are sane and sensible, and "specific need" is the decision-maker not simply protected class status with no regard for other factors, then that's okay, I would suggest.I suspect in most cases with HUD housing, as I understand it (I'm not an expert on US federal housing policy I admit), the people being jumped over will likely also one or more protected class characteristics, no?</blockquote>

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