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BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

So Valve says the processors - such as Stripe and PayPal - pressed the issue based on pressure from MasterCard (and possibly Visa). MasterCard says they had nothing to do with it. Itch says that Stripe was directly responsible in their case with a blanket ban on anything generally sexy, but that Stripe blamed their banking partners.

So Stripe, at least, is directly responsible but insists they are under pressure from banking partners. This means the pressure is coming from one or more actual banks. Since we don’t have names, we have to do some research to find out who Stripe works with. The possibilities I was able to dig up on a quick search include:

Citigroup
Wells Fargo
Barclays
Goldman Sachs
Evolve Bank & Trust

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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Shittygroup

Hellsfargo

Nutglaze

Oldball sacks

Devolve bank mistrust

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- pyre@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  guiltiest man who ever lived, as Cody said on his showdy
  
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tonytins@pawb.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I have a hunch this goes one step higher than the private banks.

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Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Sure. Let them whatabout. But to us, consumers, it shouldn’t matter.

We know the stores aren’t responsible, so we shouldn’t attack them.

The processors are. For Visa and MasterCard it’s pretty obvious. Itch, as you said, puts direct blame on Stripe, and I think we can trust that.

As much as processors need banks, banks also need processors. It’s a sort of symbiosis. Damage to one actually trickles onto the other. So pressing onto processors isn’t a mistake. It’d be foolish at best and malicious at worst to suggest that.

Now that we have leverage as users and consumers, having started a push which made way and caused a response (first the prepared phone statement and now a press release), the absolute wrong thing to do is bacl down and say “sorry, we were wrong, it was B after all and not you, A”.

And look at it this way: There’s less payment processors and they’re smaller than banks. If you suddenly turn to banks, you won’t accomplish anything because to them, a few consumers who aren’t their customers doesn’t cause them even an itch. But if payment processors come to them it might.

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