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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: 0.207s | source
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speeder ◴[18 Jul 25 16:44 UTC] No.44606868[source]▶
For those thinking is only related to chargebacks and fraud, it is not.

VISA and Mastercard have been banning a lot of content that is not porn but has political values that are disapproved by certain billionaires and investors. There is a bunch of links I wanted to post about, such as US billionaires bragging he personally called VISA CEO to ban content on PH or japanese politicians mad at the censorship of japanese art with certain values because of these companies. But I am on phone walking home so if anyone else has such links please post.

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1. raincole ◴[18 Jul 25 18:24 UTC] No.44608147[source]▶
Of course it's not. Steam already has a very generous refund policy. It's hard to imaging the chargeback rate would be that high even for nsfw games when you can simply refund. Refund takes about 3~4 clicks on steam website; Chargeback takes a phone call with your bank and can get your steam account locked.

And people who laundry money out stolen cards won't do that with nsfw games. They'll do that with CSGO knifes.