What's stopping a large, profitable company like Valve from starting its own payment processor? Surely the technology part of it can't be an impossible hurdle.
Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down
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Re: Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down
#22The US has some clear laws against government controlling speech and, in the abstract, that makes it pretty much impossible to censor games. Various factions - exactly who it is difficult to pin down - have been working hard to set up a system where they can shut things down without ever explicitly instructing anyone to do anything. This appears to be the system engaging by accident because some crazy from Australia…
Say fuck on TV.
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One man’s (or woman’s) smut is another’s bread... to paraphrase.
We should be free to choose.
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This does not merely affect only smut but anything that "damages the brand". Today it's NSFW content, who knows where the landslide will lead us next?
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Why does smut need to be "cleaned up"?
Would you consider a woman in a t shirt smut? Well, more than a billion people in the world probably would. Should we make sure to clean that up too, or is it just what you consider smut?
Re: Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down
#26The US has some clear laws against government controlling speech and, in the abstract, that makes it pretty much impossible to censor games. Various factions - exactly who it is difficult to pin down - have been working hard to set up a system where they can shut things down without ever explicitly instructing anyone to do anything. This appears to be the system engaging by accident because some crazy from Australia…
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Re: Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down
#27Lots of outrage at the card companies, but strangely, no outrage at the laws that actually caused this. One is the Australian law to remove that type of content and the other is the US law that says the payment processor can't participate in illegal transactions.
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#28I feel like nobody cares really and none of the companies care, but are all worried because of the massive stranglehold 2 players have (and realistically each has almost entire control). Mastercard don't care you want porn, or games, or whatever. Neither does VISA. They like money. They want money and want people to move their money so they can siphon off some of it for their own pockets. Almost nobody is going to av…
>The only thing that impacts this really is chargebacks, which iiuc are much more common with adult stuff.
I think this makes no sense, like "we makes less profits from adult stuff because of charge back, so let\s give up on this profits". Anyway this companies did not use this excuse so why do this old excuse is resufecing now if they did not use it.
Re: Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down
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Well, it actually is an attack on free speech. But even if we all agree it sits outside of what we all consider free speech, a payment processor is definitely not who should be enforcing it.
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