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

• 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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    • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You seem to have forgotten what we were discussing, which was that Mastercard didn’t say anything.

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      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You really buy that?

        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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