Comment on Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there

deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The thing is they are American corporations who care to much about their public image. I would be highly suprised if they national payment platforms would also accept this. (ideal/bankcontant/wero/etc)

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• finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Debit Cards, too.

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Cryptocurrency is the solution here, and unfortunately that’s an unpopular take here.

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  • RedFrank24@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s because 90% of cryptocurrency marketing consists of “THINK OF THE GAAAAAAINS YOU CAN MAKE!” instead of “You can use this to buy things without government censorship”.

    The entire crypto industry has based itself around being a speculative asset, not a currency.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Which is really unfortunate. If you avoid the most popular coins (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc), you avoid most of the scams and speculation and end up with a decent currency that respects your privacy and has low fees.

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      • pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        monero?

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      • cannon_annon88@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Tell me more

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  • emmy67@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not when exchanges still govern taking money out. They are businesses like everything else and will be just as risk averse

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    • deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      One benefit to payment processing for crypto is that there’s little in the way of material limitations on processing payments. The blockchain for a given coin already exists, your job as a processor is primarily to convert those on-chain transactions into and out of other currencies. Only requiring intervention at the point of entering or exiting dollars to and from the system changes a lot of the dynamics.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s pretty easy to switch between cryptocurrencies, so they can surely find an exchange that is friendly to their business. That’s way better than the credit card situation where there are only four major processors–Visa, Mastercard, Discover, and American Express–and only two of those actually matter.

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      • emmy67@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        None of what you said addresses the problem I mentioned.

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• Cocopanda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Probably just worried Trump will over regulate them if they don’t fall in line with the Christian Radicals.

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• MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They pressure payment processors through reputation damage and regulatory threats - these companies are terrified of being associated with anything that could trigger banking regulations or get them labeled as “enabling” problematic content in the media, its purely a risk management desicion for them.

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Supposedly there was a ruling in California that made them responsible.

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  • deathbird@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Do you have any info or links about that?

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    • plyth@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Unfortunately not. It was mentioned in a lemmy comment.

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