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

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728 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.425s | source
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miiiiiike ◴[19 Jul 25 01:02 UTC] No.44611570[source]▶
Look. Ignore the content. Why the fuck do we allow credit card companies have a say in how we spend our money?

Fraud? Abuse? Fine, let me put cash onto a card and if that card gets stolen, oh well, my loss. Mastercard should have no say in what what speech is considered acceptable outside of their offices. We don't care what execs at a water company think? Why do we care about the people at Mastercard?

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SJC_Hacker ◴[19 Jul 25 02:04 UTC] No.44611910[source]▶
Because they are on the hook for fraudulent transactions, until they get to merchant to refund. Otherwise they wouldn't care.

Which is why some merchants get effectively blacklisted if they have too many fraudulent transactions

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1. jjeaff ◴[19 Jul 25 03:04 UTC] No.44612203[source]▶
that wouldn't apply in this case, because the vendor, Valve, would be on the hook for fraudulent purchases and they would definitely have the deep pockets to pay out. The cc companies only have to worry about the small, fly by night companies that might disappear after a bunch of fraud.