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visa and MasterCard are forcing steam and other companies to either remove games THEY don’t agree with or be dropped by Mc/visa.

it’s just corporate censorship at its finest. credit card companies can essentially tell steam what they are or are not allowed to sell for some weird as fuck reason.

engadget.com/…/steam-now-bans-games-that-violate-…

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jewbacca117@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The weird as fuck reason is steam would no longer be able to take payments through MC or visa. That’s an insane loss of revenue. Valve would have to pay a third party to take payments.

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- GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That’s such an unnecessary gotcha response lol. Obviously they are reliant on those payment processors for their revenue, which is the very reason they are complying.
  
  The point is that those two payment processors essentially run credit card payments in the west, and use that dominance to force their values on their clients.
  
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  - Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    not credit card, debit
    
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  - iii@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    
    to force their values on their clients.
    
    A dominant oligarchic government/industry cooperation for sure. But I don’t think they have values. Just cost analysis: the price of litigation and punishment.
    
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- WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Another great example of why their monopoly racket should be destroyed.
  
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  - iii@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    If only there exists a technology
    
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