Sure you can, you can do whatever you want. My point is it will have zero effect on anything.

Part of the problem is that there are very few payment services and they all seem to be doing the same thing.

Yes, totally agreed that the people making decisions have beliefs. Hard disagree if you think the head of Visa is consulting his/her/their ‘beliefs’ when voting on multi-billion dollar decisions.

My point is it will have zero effect on anything.

Actually every dollar spent away from credit card proxessors denies them 3 cents of revenue and something like .75% in profit per dollar spent

But you do you, keep consuming how daddy told you to do it. Never adjust your behaviour to save money

mmmm yes America Daddy, hurt me so good, I love it! Trillion dollar industry is DEF hurting by me denying them pennies. You have awoken me, thank you!

Look, I don’t know how the average Lemme user feels about crypto, but if NSFW game creators created a platform where purchases happen only in crypto then MasterCard/Visa/Paypal would be irrelevant

Okay, you’re allowed to be wrong

Thank you kindly

Melinda Tankard Reist.

Michael Miebach.

Ryan McInerney.

Humans > branding and corporation names.

When CVS “used racist AI” I didn’t see a single goddamn peep about the CEOs in charge while they had that policy.

We should name the board and the whole leadership system but at least mentioning CEOs would be a great start.

What if they believe that being associated with adult games will hurt the bottom line?

It’s specifically due to a moral panic group, Collective Shout, pressuring credit card companies to do this. Litigation isn’t really part of it, just angry organized people on the Internet.

How do they apply pressure though? (they threaten to sue)

And they’d lose a huge number of potential sales.

God damn chad… You ain’t wrong, naming the perp is first step in any proprr discourse.

USians are allergic to naming the parasite it seems tho

I don’t think we should be giving corporations a pass for caving to challenges from authority whether it’s hard or not.

Whether it’s valve pulling NSFW content, universities expelling students, or CBS firing people over political speech it’s all anti-consumer behavior driven by a financial incentive to cater to a bully with too much power. They’re all just rolling over and showing their belly rather than deal with a problem in the short term.

If Valve or Itch had paired that statement with a statement about what other payment processing options they were pursuing that might someday lead them back to a pro-consumer position I’d be on board for granting them some grace on the issue, but to the best of my knowledge from the articles I’ve seen, their position has been “tell me what to do Daddy”. If I’m wrong about that I apologize and I’ll start reading different sources.

There’s just too much capitulation to anti-free-speech behavior and I’m not ready to give anyone a pass at this point.

The short term strategy would probably be to introduce Y payment processor and make it the preferred method of payment. Encourage it’s use industry wide and encourage consumers to adopt that method as widely as possible.

If that takes off… Then they can tell the other processors to get fucked.

Do you know that or are you speculating?

Nothing but hypocrisy from Visa and MasterCard - there are far more NSFW content on Xitter than in games and yet I don’t see a peep of them banning payment towards that little blue checkmark.