Well, I mean restrictions other than a credit card willing to transfer your money to Valve so they can give you whatever game you desire. Of course, the occasional sexually explicit game shows up on the store, and there’s a warning on those, but there’s literally no restrictions that I could see. Plenty of games arrive via Greenlight or fan demand without any regard as to their content. I am quite sure, for example, that Steam doesn’t require an ESRB rating of any kind. And the Internet itself, unlike movies, saved video games from the vicissitudes of a corporate rating board. Bad and good apples alike support and harass each other daily, and the cycle continues perpetually as people get to know other people from different cultural contexts and new places. Copyright laws are broken, moral standards don’t matter, and laws seem impossible to enforce in this grand international anarchy of information dispersal. You can find anything, literally anything, on the Internet. The video games industry obtained a secret weapon with the rise of the Internet, that vast untamed wilderness that I often call the Wild West of the Modern Era.
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