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

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819 points freedomben | 2 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.434s | source
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maxbond ◴[19 Jul 25 00:26 UTC] No.44611358[source]▶
Why do payment processors do stuff like this? Is there some regulation that requires them to? I get that they don't want to process fraudulent transactions, but I'd think the response to a higher percentage of fraud from some industry would be to charge them more. It doesn't make sense to me why they would be concerned about the content of games, as long as everything is legal and the parties concerned aren't subject to sanctions.

Some of these games seem completely abhorrent, and probably illegal in more restrictive jurisdictions, but not the United States. And I've not seen any suggestion they're funding terrorism or something. So I'm perplexed.

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herbst ◴[19 Jul 25 07:24 UTC] No.44613322[source]▶
Just one of the ways the US forces it's weird morals onto the world.
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PicassoCTs ◴[19 Jul 25 08:22 UTC] No.44613611[source]▶
Sexual self-denial always was the driving force behind the western cultural success. You can not have hyper-specialization and rule of law, without some members of society sacrificing a "normal" life.

From the monk in the monastry to Turing hyper-focused on an enigma there is clear line. Its a ugly recipe, but its working, unlike all those other societies out there, who are currently eating themselves. A judge doesn't dress like a priest for no reason.

Sexual caste slavery or anarchy- thats the choices.

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1. Der_Einzige ◴[19 Jul 25 16:03 UTC] No.44616651[source]▶
This BTW is 100% the reason why americans still perform circumcison and still radically cling to it.

Men must have their sexuality attacked and stymed from the very beginning of birth, or else they will waste their brain power on promiscuity. That's the only thinking anyway that explains why over half this country still circumcises.

Kant and I think Newton were famously virgins and a whole lot of moral crusaders in this world get extremely angry at the idea that people in this world have enjoyable sexual relations. A lot of people want a lot more sexual frustration to exist in this world, as it's good for capitalist exploitation.

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2. spauldo ◴[19 Jul 25 20:52 UTC] No.44619270[source]▶
That's absolutely not the reason. It started out that way, sure, but it's not why it's done now.

It's done now out of basic tradition (father is circumcised, so son is too), conformity (his peers are all circumcised, we don't want him made fun of), doctor advice (fewer infections, easier to keep clean), and plain old cultural inertia. It's slowly dying out but I expect it to stick around another several decades.