Please, don't post articles "this/that store ban nsfw content": it's payment system (like Visa/MasterCard) that want to regulate/take control of censorship above your government.
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More than a request, I think it’s a deserving clarification. We’re getting mob outrage against Valve, Itch.io etc… while it’s just Visa/MasterCard/Paypal laughing on everyone back.
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If Valve told the card companies to go fuck themselves then they would have never pulled support.
It was always a bluff, Visa and MC would never let go of that money over something so petty.
So yeah, I also blame the billion dollar corporations that rival the card companies bending to their demands.
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Where did you ask a question in this reply chain?
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Where did you ask a question in this reply chain?
Not me but
How do they apply pressure though?
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Copy the whole thing:
How do they apply pressure though? (they threaten to sue)
Beside the fact that it wasn’t even you, they made a specific answer to that question as if it was authoritative. They were not “just asking questions”, either.
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More than a request, I think it’s a deserving clarification. We’re getting mob outrage against Valve, Itch.io etc… while it’s just Visa/MasterCard/Paypal laughing on everyone back.
Thanks reading my TEDx
Payment Providers have been doing this for a longer time.
In 2010 for example they blocked donations towards WikiLeaks.
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Copy the whole thing:
How do they apply pressure though? (they threaten to sue)
Beside the fact that it wasn’t even you, they made a specific answer to that question as if it was authoritative. They were not “just asking questions”, either.
You’re being needlessly pedantic. If it makes you feel better, I can ask the question again:
How do they apply pressure?
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You’re being needlessly pedantic. If it makes you feel better, I can ask the question again:
How do they apply pressure?
I answered that above already. Good bye.
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I answered that above already. Good bye.
You didn’t answer anything about why they would care about PR. Is it your position that people would stop using CCs because some entity got noisy about them being used to buy pr0n?
