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

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803 points freedomben | 2 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.55s | 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. lmm ◴[19 Jul 25 13:01 UTC] No.44615149[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!

Someone, somewhere is making a choice to pressure content vendors to not offer this kind of content, and not to pressure them to not offer other kinds of content. It may be upstream of the payment processors but there is absolutely a weird puritan American thing going on somewhere, and it's much more interesting to get to the bottom of that since that's the point where change could happen. If everyone involved was amoral, these profitable games would continue being sold.

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2. tptacek ◴[19 Jul 25 13:09 UTC] No.44615206[source]▶
Your premise is that they are, for the payment processors, profitable. They very probably are not.