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

• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Of course they did.

  They just did so from behind a veil of plausible deniability.

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  • Microw@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A lawyer for a processor like PayPal or Stripe could easily have gone "uh, the Mastercard contract clause prohibits this".

    And PayPal is well known for doing shitty things, so it wouldn't surprise me.

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe.

      But Valve asked mastercard directly.

      A lack of a response is a also a response, in this case essentially an endorsement of whatever their partner was telling Valve.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    So you think Valve is lying?

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    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What?

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      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Did you not read literally the first line?

        In a statement to Kotaku, a spokesperson for Valve said that while Mastercard did not communicate with it directly, concerns did come through payment processor and banking intermediaries

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