Valve are now removing a bunch of sex games from Steam to keep banks and card companies happy

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• Quill7513@slrpnk.net ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  why do the banks and card companies even get a say? they’re just supposed to hold the money. i mean. i know they hold so much more that that and we’re just allowed occasionally to hold the money. but still. that they flaunt their power over us is annoying

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  • L7HM77@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I find it amusing that the ultra wealthy believe pornographic images would replace an entire human relationship. Really shows how deeply warped they are, projecting they’re own callous insanity onto the masses. What a small, sad existence.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why do the card companies care?

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  • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because the owners are Christian and think everyone else should be as well.

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  • treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I think they fear regulation so much that they’re willing to be this proactive to keep Congress off their asses.

    It’s still weird to me that they never seem willing to test the boundaries, though. They’ve got more lawyers and lobbyists than they know what to do with.

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    • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s not related to Trump/Congress. They almost unironically got OnlyFans to ban sexual content from their own website a few years back due to the militant actions of one fringe puritanical group. They got memed so hard they eventually backed down, but MasterCard&Visa have been acting as World Sexuality Police for a very long time.

      I don’t think it’s a rational financial decision, AFAICT they just have a puritanical leadership. As a cartel they don’t have to be maximally financially efficient. Their continued existence is an artefact of the 20th century, and their corporate values reflect that.

      Hopefully Wero takes off soon to introduce some competition in the online payment market.

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• ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meanwhile I got an email from GOG having a sale on the same today…

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• Goretantath@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So when is someone going to make a non christian payment proccesor?

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  • Gonzako@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    haven’t found a tutorial on it yet

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    • oplkill@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ask AI

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• steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anyone know what types of porn games are being banned? I assume it’s those depicting csam and nonconsentual acts.

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  • Leonixster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    From what I read on other posts (which is to say, I haven’t confirmed it so take it with a grain of salt), it was nonconsensual and incest games

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• vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There are a lot of things why we don’t like capitalism, but this one I’m gonna love.

  This will probably create a void in a market, where there will be companies with names like Horneam, Jizzbuzz, Lusteam, etc

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  • azertyfun@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Virtually every payment processor uses VISA/MasterCard in the back-end. For EU users PayPal can be backed by SEPA mandates instead (direct bank pre-authorization), but otherwise VISA/MC is holding payment processors by the balls in virtually every other market. Without Visa/MC, there is no way to bring funds in or out of your account.

    The only alternative is to negotiate interconnection with banks directly, but that’s a very high bar for broad adoption. It has happened on a small scale (e.g. Payconiq in the Benelux) and the EU is attempting to broaden that to the rest of the continent, but it’s a very tough sell because they have to convince every major bank to support the new standard.

    This is a textbook case where capitalism isn’t the solution because there are only two market actors and a virtually insurmountable barrier to entry.

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    • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Pornhub and other adult sites did pivot heavily to crypto after being cut off from traditional payment processors.

      Also maybe digital euro and digital yuan might be an alternative to this darkness

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  • hisao@ani.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, but we need something like Lustercard, Rizza and Pornpal here, since the problem isn’t on content company level.

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    • vivalapivo@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      1. If you believe in God, everything is possible

      2. Crypto

      3. Valve don’t specify which payment processors, card networks and banks they’re referring to in their statement…

      So it’s only PayPal

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• sgibson5150@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meanwhile, at the bank: Image

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