Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams
NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ana Valens recently resigned from Vice following an article about the censorship of games. On social media, she shared communication between Mastercard and Riot Games.
Looks like Vice can’t be trusted as a reliable source of information if they’re willing to fire journalists after a little outside pressure is put on them.
Could be great links to share over Riot Games streams.
- MasterCard has asked Riot to keep an eye out for negative sentiments on official Riot streams
- Riot has asked esports content creators working with official Riot properties to watch out for any negative sentiments toward MasterCard
- Moderators have been told to look out for any unusual activity around the MasterCard issue
No better publicity than getting their own statements thrown back at their faces.
MasterCard is paying their PR well.
theverge.com/…/vice-media-layoffs-bankruptcy-shan…
they havn’t been trustworthy since 2023
Saleh@feddit.org 1 day ago
This also goes to an entire new level. Before it was “only” censoring digital products and events. Now it is directly censoring media outlets.
This screams for an antitrust lawsuit, if a company has this kind of power.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Megacorp be megacorping.
FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
Best answer.
We are currently enjoying living through the period that most dystopian cyberpunk fiction just kinda glosses over, the antedystopian period where the transition to full blown megacorporatacracy and neu fascism.
Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
The time when the transition underneath already happened but it’s not formalised bcs the people could still snap it all back.