Good on Steam for doing this. Quoting from the announcement [0], "Valve shouldn't be the ones deciding this. If you're a player, we shouldn't be choosing for you what content you can or can't buy."
I feel that total inclusionism is the only long-term stable policy. Excluding things based on morality is inherently an unstable position - "why do you allow this but not that? Don't you know this is literally killing babies in Africa?" where this and that could be nudity, gore, violence, rape, women's suffrage, blasphemy, political incorrectness or any number of other topics. Well, I suppose hosting no content at all would also be a stable policy... But it's not one that many storefronts are going to support.
Valve are taking a stance that every major open-access digital vendor has backed away from. Apple, Google, Facebook, Patreon, Zazzle, Amazon... they'll let you sell anything you want with no pre-moderation (except Apple) and rely on community moderation to bring things to their attention.
I don't think this will end well for them. They've declared open season for the internet's worst people to push the boundaries of acceptability, for which they'll earn a cut of a tiny number of sales, and reams of negative press.
I feel that total inclusionism is the only long-term stable policy. Excluding things based on morality is inherently an unstable position - "why do you allow this but not that? Don't you know this is literally killing babies in Africa?" where this and that could be nudity, gore, violence, rape, women's suffrage, blasphemy, political incorrectness or any number of other topics. Well, I suppose hosting no content at all would also be a stable policy... But it's not one that many storefronts are going to support.
[0] https://steamcommunity.com/games/593110/announcements/detail...