So you think Valve is lying?
Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months agoOf course they did.
They just did so from behind a veil of plausible deniability.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
What?
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 months 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
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
Yes.
Plausible deniability.
“Oh so sorry that wasn’t us, one of our partners just overzealously applied or policies”
Microw@piefed.zip 2 months 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.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 months 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.