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

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793 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.264s | 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. pasc1878 ◴[19 Jul 25 06:44 UTC] No.44613154[source]▶
Or I suspect in this case there are Puritans with a lot of money who will sue the payment providers if the providers don't block things they think are bad.

Yes the payment provider is making a simple money based business decision, or possibly there is a threat of sanctions against the directors so a personal decision as well.