Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

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713 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.347s | source

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ranger_danger ◴[18 Jul 25 16:25 UTC] No.44606578[source]▶

What can be done to loosen card companies' grip on this? It has been a constant problem now for decades.

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Sohcahtoa82 ◴[18 Jul 25 16:34 UTC] No.44606685[source]▶

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Likely nothing.

The simple fact is, Visa/MC don't want to deal with porn because the number of chargebacks and fraud from porn purchases is significant and a huge outlier compared to most other charges. Their crusade against processing charges for adult material isn't about purity, it's simply business.

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1. giraffe_lady ◴[18 Jul 25 16:53 UTC] No.44607010[source]▶

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That's not true, anti-sex work and anti-porn activists have specifically been pressuring payment processors to assume these policies. The processors as the critical control point of this whole thing was identified decades ago and conservative christian think tanks have been pursuing this path since then.

This is part of a long-term plan to de facto ban lgbtq content without having to deal with first amendment protections. First have the payment processors ban explicit content, then have queer content categorized as explicit.

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