Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games

• bouh@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s much worse than that. How they word it is “if it may damage the public image of mastercard”. And they don’t review the content, they review the means used to prevent the damage to their brand.

  So valve doesn’t even need to have anything that actually damage mastercard brand, it just need to be that mastercard is not comfortable enough with the measures used to prevent it.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like buying anything would actually damage the brand of Mastercard. It’s such a nonsensical excuse that I’m surprised nobody laughed in their face.

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    • SheeEttin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah, right up until assholes start posting “MASTERCARD SELLS SMUT INCEST HENTAI GAMES” on TikTok. Then it’s a problem, and MasterCard considers that damaging to the brand.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        There’s really nothing stopping anyone from posting that right now. That’s the quality level of most of the online content nowadays.

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      • bouh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Except that’s entirely false. Even now they are pretending they do nothing, it’s the intermediaries who force things.

        Mastercard sells absolutely nothing. And they have no responsibility for anything sold. And no one ever thought it was mastercard selling or even allowing to sell illegal things.

        In fact, most people will believe no one sound of mind will buy something illegal with a credit card because mastercard and the likes will give your identity to the police.

        So it’s not about illegal things, and it’s not about their image.

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