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

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819 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.262s | source
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egypturnash ◴[18 Jul 25 23:34 UTC] No.44611013[source]▶
Okay so is Steam enough of a money printer for Valve to say "well fuck you guys, we'll make our own credit card with hookers and bingo"? And hold out Half-Life 3 (only purchasable with the ValveCard) as a carrot?
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0cf8612b2e1e ◴[18 Jul 25 23:44 UTC] No.44611095[source]▶
I am genuinely curious who can actually threaten Visa (I do not think it is Valve).

Amazon, Walmart, Target and then increasingly unsure.

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fendy3002 ◴[19 Jul 25 00:38 UTC] No.44611441[source]▶
Though unpopular, I'd say China is able to
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lmz ◴[19 Jul 25 02:44 UTC] No.44612106[source]▶
1) They already have that (Unionpay). 2) I don't think they are less prone to censoring things.
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1. mango7283 ◴[19 Jul 25 08:54 UTC] No.44613761[source]▶
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c056nle2drno

China would never! /s