The group responsible is "Collective Shout", the same org has targeted Steam before.

There are calls on social media now to contact Mastercard, Visa and co. and file complaints.

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[–] 152 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Puritanical US based payment processors need to stop getting their panties twisted.

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    I don't even understand how they give a shit. Seems like the perfect place for shareholders to want them to make as much money as possible, it's a limited market.

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    People with a lot of money doesn't really want just money. They want power to impose their views over the rest. Money is just a mean to do so.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    the payment processors didn’t randomly wake up this week and decide to ban NSFW video games on a power trip.

    they are being financially pressured in some way to threaten game platforms that they’ll remove their services completely. the implication of that is they’re worried about losing even more money than they make from payments on game platforms.

    from the payment processors perspective, they’re thinking, “okay this is not a hill we want to die on and it’s a small percentage of our business anyway.”

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    You're still thinking within reason. Megalomania doesn't.

    It's not about money, but power. "The world bent its knee at our word." Simple as that. People can be and are that crazy.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    They give a shit because they are being pressured into giving a shit by religious nutjobs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality_in_Media

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's an Australian organisation pressuring the payment processors.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    It's not just happening recently with Steam and Itch.io, it's been happening for a while.

    Some smutty art creators on Patreon have been chased off that platform because of payment processors telling patreon they'd pull the plug if Patreon kept that type of art on the platform. Those same artists have then reported being unable to set up, for instance, Stripe for their paywalls.

    Porn stars have complained about being unable to set up accounts with payment processors.

    Same with ad companies that are deathly afraid of being seen next to NSFW images, so for instance Imgur has cracked down on them.

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