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Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down

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Is a payment processor operated by the Federal Reserve good enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FedNow Well, it probably would be, except guess who killed it in favor of a crypto scheme? https://www.jitumaster.com/2025/06/us-president-signs-execut... I agree about the PO though. Social media shouldn't be a for-profit enterprise either.

Ugh, they killed FedNow too? That hadn’t hit my radar. Why a waste.

FedNow has not been diminished through policy, still full speed ahead.

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They should be allowing all lawful transactions, and if they can't, they should get broken up.

They do allow lawful transactions. However, they do require that these transactions be properly coded. If you are processing for certain types of products (adult in nature) it has to be coded as such. If Itch and Steam aren't coding these properly, or don't have the appropriate relation and accounts to process these transactions, you run into issues like this.

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> US-treasury direct Ok but this one is good. And it works because it’s a tool they need to generate revenue

It's better now, but during the era of the on-screen keyboard it was atrocious.

I thought they still had the on-screen keyboard? They had it as of 6 months ago at least.

But still, atrocious site. I can't use the back button or it logs you out; logging in is like a 5 step chore, it's unintuitive and looks like it's from 2005. I can only assume it's unsafe and doing simple things like checking your balance take 20 minutes. There will never be an app and I'm sure they will continue to do no innovation on the customer service side.

Re: Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down

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There already was a time when Steam managed to free people from need to use funny pieces of plastic in their lifes... They've done that with CDs, they can do it again with Cards.

Yeah, that was when Steam freed the users from actually owning any game and instead gave the users limited licenses for using games. I am looking forward to the day when they shutdown and everybody realizes this.

Steam has famously gone on record that they will provide a DRM removal patch for everything they’re legally allowed to, if/when they go under.

If they don’t do this and it’s all just lip service, then it makes a strong argument for ethical piracy at that time.

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Do people think USD being accepted at kink stores gives the USA a reputation risk?

I just don't see the argument that a payment processor being able to process payments legitimately gives them reputation risk. I don't doubt that people write in to MasterCard to claim it does but people write about everything.

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I think the mint should maintain a payment processor, and the post office should maintain an official email address for everyone. these are basic things we need to exist in society, we should not be at the whims of private organizations.

I cannot think of anything worse than an official post office email I have to maintain. Do you not remember how many government sites would simply shut down after business hours because they couldn't figure out how to do on-call? Have you ever used US-treasury direct? This site would be slow, the code base would be unmaintained, it'd get enormous amounts of spam you have to sort through to get some important tax docu…

My local city runs a water heater rental company. It provides water heaters more or less at cost to residents because we have exceptionally hard water here and they need to be replaced every ten years or so. It's a well run, valuable public program, and its cost is minimal.

The US Digital Service made a number of good web services for the US federal government while it lasted. They didn't close at night.

There are many times where governments do a bad job of things, and times where they do a good job. They're just institutions made of people, but they have no other default orientation. Describing faults in some non-existent service you're just imagining, as though they would obviously happen, is frankly a bizarre thing to do.

May I suggest: consider getting involved in the governance of your world. You could meet the many humans who are already doing so, working to improve it, and learning something. You can actually do that! It might surprise you how much good work is being done.

You might also then be able to help prevent others from implementing your worst dreams, instead of treating them as obvious or foregone conclusions.

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> US-treasury direct Ok but this one is good. And it works because it’s a tool they need to generate revenue

It's better now, but during the era of the on-screen keyboard it was atrocious.

Further invalidating the original objection that the site would be unmaintained.

Re: Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down

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I think the mint should maintain a payment processor, and the post office should maintain an official email address for everyone. these are basic things we need to exist in society, we should not be at the whims of private organizations.

I cannot think of anything worse than an official post office email I have to maintain. Do you not remember how many government sites would simply shut down after business hours because they couldn't figure out how to do on-call? Have you ever used US-treasury direct? This site would be slow, the code base would be unmaintained, it'd get enormous amounts of spam you have to sort through to get some important tax docu…

I hate this approach so much. Something doesn't work very well, so instead of putting pressure on making it work better, let us abandon it!

Don't get me wrong. There are cases when it makes sense, but only when it is certain that there is no way to make it better, or when making it better would be a waste of resources. And neither is case here.

In my country, we have, what is essentially, a centralized email for communication with authorities. Taxes, permits, trials, it all goes there. There is no spam, you can set it up so that reminders about unread go to your normal email. It's not perfect, but it saves me hours of time I would otherwise have to waste in line.

So try for something like this. Instead of just giving up.

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As far as it goes, collective shout claimed Valve didn't respond to them and that's why they complained to MC visa about it. They even mention how many calls they made to them to get the complaint heard. So everyone would have to be pretty invested in this show for it to have originated from Valve?

Which means Collective Shout didn't have any legal weight behind their demands.

Of course - they've never invoked a legal justification. What they seem to be leaning on is basically "we can create bad press about you supporting payments for X", promising headlines like "MasterCard is paying for women to be beaten and raped!" or other sensational nonsense.
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