Comment on Valve change Steam's rules to let banks and credit card firms prohibit "certain kinds of adult only content"

Nima@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  1. No it won’t. People aren’t going to change their bank because their debit card doesn’t like a company
  2. It wouldn’t change anything. Take a look at said debit card. Notice how it is probably either Visa or Mastercard (Discover if you’re nasty (ain’t nobody use American Express)). THOSE are the companies that matter
  3. Don’t use your debit card for online purchases. Get a credit card. The fees are the same on the vendor end and you get much better protections AND cash back

  And its always worth remembering what happened with Pornhub back in 2022. I genuinely don’t care what anyone thinks (or were told to think by the tates of the world…) about porn. “Special Interest Groups” largely speareheaded by right wing fascists built up a narrative that Pornhub was nothing but revenge porn (not wrong) and child porn (still way less than facebook or twitter. And I am talking 2022 twitter, not mechahitler twitter) which led to credit card companies immediately cutting it off and the company wiping almost its entire video library almost literally overnight.

  And while I do think that was a net good, it is worth remembering where it came from and the implications of christofacists pressuring Visa et al to boycott a company for you.

  So this is mostly Valve saying “We aren’t going to fight this fight and it is on you”. Which… considering how the usual response to a journalist fighting for the truth is “UGH! HOW FUCKING DARE YOU LINK TO PAYWALLED CONTENT!!!”… I don’t blame Gabe The Knife Collecting Libertarian at all.

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  • Nima@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    oh. alright.

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