Comment on [Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks agoDid 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 3 weeks ago
Yes.
Plausible deniability.
“Oh so sorry that wasn’t us, one of our partners just overzealously applied or policies”
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
You seem to have forgotten what we were discussing, which was that Mastercard didn’t say anything.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I see we’re going with the insanity approach.