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

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875 points freedomben | 3 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.005s | 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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amelius ◴[19 Jul 25 08:19 UTC] No.44613595[source]▶
> Why the fuck do we allow credit card companies have a say in how we spend our money?

Because sadly 80% of people are sheep. Same reason we allow a company to decide what we can and cannot install on our smartphones.

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9dev ◴[19 Jul 25 09:27 UTC] No.44613913[source]▶
No, don’t follow the underdog fallacy. What are you doing against it? How are you different from the other sheep? Merely complaining doesn’t make you any better.
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1. 93po ◴[19 Jul 25 12:20 UTC] No.44614908[source]▶
youre allowed to be critical of things while still using said things. i have 8 million things going on in my life and the hill i die on isnt going to be the working conditions of humans that make iphones
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2. 9dev ◴[19 Jul 25 15:29 UTC] No.44616337[source]▶
Sure you are, but don’t call others out for being complacent then.
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3. pixl97 ◴[19 Jul 25 18:13 UTC] No.44617900[source]▶
Why not? Being hypocritical doesn't mean you're wrong...