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

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713 points freedomben | 3 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.017s | source
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Aeolun ◴[19 Jul 25 02:54 UTC] No.44612148[source]▶
I think it’s hilarious we allow stuff like Postal or Soldier of Fortune without a question, where the whole focus is on going crazy and murdering a whole bunch of people.

But try to show a sensual human body, instead of one that’s ripped into small pieces, and oh my god, this is going too far!

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tptacek ◴[19 Jul 25 04:03 UTC] No.44612493[source]▶
You could just ask, "why do payment processors pressure content vendors not to offer this kind of content". You're starting from the premise that there's some weird puritan thing happening, but there's really nothing puritan about American business culture. There are other explanations!

You can get a long ways just by assuming that the people involved in these transactions are utterly amoral.

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1. stale2002 ◴[19 Jul 25 05:00 UTC] No.44612721[source]▶
> You're starting from the premise that there's some weird puritan thing happening

Credit card processors don't have to be puritanical. Instead, puritanical people simply have to be smart enough to figure out that the best way to deplatform content that they disagree with is by putting pressure on their payment processor monopolistic vendors.

Giving in to a pressure campaign by ideological people can be a completely amoral and smart business decision.

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2. chii ◴[19 Jul 25 06:00 UTC] No.44612951[source]▶
> puritanical people ... deplatform content that they disagree

so that begs the question - what if the non-puritanical people also pressure the credit payment processors to stop curtailing to those puritanicals? Why is it effective one way, but not the other?

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3. mango7283 ◴[19 Jul 25 08:10 UTC] No.44613553[source]▶
Probably because people are willing to put their real names on the "We're against incest/rape simulators" petition while most people are not going to be quite so fortright on the "Valve should reinstate the incest/rape simulators" petition.