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

• Microw@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So you think Valve is lying?

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  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What?

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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes.

        Plausible deniability.

        “Oh so sorry that wasn’t us, one of our partners just overzealously applied or policies”

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