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2girls1cup wrote:

Concerning point 5: no, it's actually necessary. Since there might be plenty of minors playing NationStates, and since the game is focused on (roughly) simulating a lawmaker's work, I can't see how NSFW content could add to the experience, be it here or on Discord.

Ecosociala wrote:

My opposition to Points 5 and 6 is based on my belief that all individuals, including minors, should have the right to express themselves sexually. This does NOT mean that I am in favor of pedophilia or sexualization of any individual without their consent.

We need to remember and respect that nationstates.net has a very strict PG-13 content policy, for legal reasons, and nations that link to NSFW content are liable to be banned from the *site* - we don’t want that happening to member nations. I don’t know if their content policy technically extends to what’s said in Discord, but a strong argument can be made that it’s worth playing it safe anyway.

Even discord requires that you put any nsfw content into special age-gated channels. I’m not sure if those are reliable or more of a v-chip situation.

https://discord.com/safety/360043653552-Adult-content-on-Discord

The underlying rationale in both cases is that the platform could get sued for distributing the material, if they don’t take it down or age-gate it first. It’s not really an ideological standpoint so much as a necessity based on the irl laws.