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

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713 points freedomben | 6 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.388s | source | bottom
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maxbond ◴[19 Jul 25 00:26 UTC] No.44611358[source]▶
Why do payment processors do stuff like this? Is there some regulation that requires them to? I get that they don't want to process fraudulent transactions, but I'd think the response to a higher percentage of fraud from some industry would be to charge them more. It doesn't make sense to me why they would be concerned about the content of games, as long as everything is legal and the parties concerned aren't subject to sanctions.

Some of these games seem completely abhorrent, and probably illegal in more restrictive jurisdictions, but not the United States. And I've not seen any suggestion they're funding terrorism or something. So I'm perplexed.

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1. ls612 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:34 UTC] No.44611411[source]▶
This is one of the ways the government can censor people despite the first amendment. It’s absolutely by design. The regulators “express concern” about certain financial activity and then the companies remove it.
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2. fragmede ◴[19 Jul 25 03:03 UTC] No.44612197[source]▶
this is such small potatoes compared to the results of everything going on right now though
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3. sneak ◴[19 Jul 25 03:30 UTC] No.44612340[source]▶
No institutionalized censorship of harmless content is small potatoes.
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4. fragmede ◴[19 Jul 25 03:32 UTC] No.44612350{3}[source]▶
the other potatoes are really big
5. AngryData ◴[19 Jul 25 06:12 UTC] No.44613008[source]▶
I don't think so, it is death by a thousand cuts which is why we are in such a shitty place right now. Out rights have been attacked on all side for decades, little by little, but all together it is a huge loss.
6. herbst ◴[19 Jul 25 07:28 UTC] No.44613338[source]▶
This is a long ongoing issue tho and one of the main reasons many European sex stores don't take credit card at all. Visa and master do enforce irrational morals