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

• PlzGivHugs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Mastercard? Yes, but then they’d have to admit that they were in the wromg.

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• HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Unless MC and Visa are run by people who already agree with Collective Shout and are just using them as an excuse to enforce this policy.

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  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t they have shareholders though?

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    • HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If they do, that includes them. Decision makers at all levels, nobody gets to say "hey I didn't make Mastercard act this way." Because the status quo would have been to carry on processing video game payments, even in the face of a minority faction like Collective Shout.

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      • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You’d expect them to put profits above this kind of petty consideration. That would only be valid if the company was owned by a fairly small group.

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