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Maybe it is time for an anti-trust investigation.
in this administration?
good luck…
Just use whichever payment processor is the lesser evil to push them towards getting better.
Because that’s working out super great with politics!
Let’s be clear though
The payment processors did the blocking but the requests came from some religious group that wants the entire world to be as miserable as they are.
Fuck all religions and fuck them for always wanting their claws in everything to try and control everything and everyone
Appeasing rambling cults is not acceptable.
They just missed very old news about how games that depict illegal activities do not really cause people to do illegal activities. Therefore they can’t be illegal themselves.
Plus, where do you draw the line?
Social media where users discuss illegal activities? Movies that depict illegal activities?
There are a lot of illegal activities in the bible.
All data carriers, like ISPs, payment processors, email services, etc. should have NO control, nor even oversight or input, over the content of their transmission or the purposes thereof.
Imagine if all roads were privately own and they wanted to know every detail about those traveling on their roadways. Origin and destination, every detail about you, about your vehicle, what you have in your car, etc. And imagine they could decide that certain cars were allowed on their roads, you weren’t allowed to use their roads to get to certain destinations, they get lobbied by bigots to not allow gays to drive on their roads, or people that have porn in their vehicle. There’s no public alternative, and sometimes no private alternative, and even private alternatives do the exact same thing… if we wouldn’t allow that sort of surveillance, interference, and autocratic control with or means of movement, why should we allow it with our means of trade.
Not to mention their little gaslighting memos they sent out trying to say it wasn’t them that told them they wouldn’t process those payments.
Still itch.io deindexed all nsfw games
Edit: Okay so they now reindexed them.
Today, we are re-indexing free adult NSFW content. We are still in ongoing discussions with payment processors and will be re-introducing paid content slowly to ensure we can confidently support the widest range of creators in the long term.
Would you rather they had shut down because nobody is able to pay them anymore? They complied with the demands for the time being because they have a business to run - and then they immediately started looking for a solution.
Can you boycott visa/mastercard when paying at steam or do most methods just end up using them anyway?
I’ve wondered if a good boycott method would be starting a different credit card - IF any of them have made statements about foregoing censorship. But I could be corrected if it turns out others like Discover end up going through V/MC systems somehow.
Run the payment through PayPal direct to your bank account.
Alternatively, you could add the funds directly to your steam wallet using your regular card and say “Fuck you, you can’t even stop me!” to them.
They’re payment networks, not payment processors
Isn’t this misinformation?
So… that means they do … what? Network the payments?
They provide the digital infrastructure to have payments and money flows
Payment processors are other companies which use payment networks to process said transactions. Then often have their own rules which are more strict than payment networks
And the difference that makes for me is what?
That it isn’t Mastercard and Visa’s fault but the payment processors’
Making this meme disinformation
I don’t know, every news story I read on this said “Mastercard and Visa”. I don’t see how whether they are technically considered “processors” or “networks” matters to me or the issue.
