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Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.
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The problem is that they are a cartel, so we get in a place where a group of private businesses can dictate who can make money. I think it's a great idea in theory that as a payment processor you can have influence on social changes. I think businesses should have clear ethics so that I can support those that match my own. If there were 50 processors to choose from that all had niches and different ethics, fine. But we have in reality one processor with finger puppets on asking us which puppet we like best.
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Steam should accept bitcoin or some other crypto as default for all titles and only use card for "safe" titles Steam users are mostly tech savvy enough to do it
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Payment processors should not be allowed to dictate what content they allow to be bought and what not. It's not their job to police people, let me live ffsHere's what i think is likely. For one reason or another, they get excessive refund/chargeback requests regarding these types of titles and decided to act as they don't think it's profitable. I don't think they care what so ever what you buy, as long as it's profitable for them.
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If the US used something like pix, MasterCard, visa, etc wouldn't have any power to do this, but they are wanting to make Brazil delete pix from existing. Interesting.The central bank facilitating electronic cash flow makes so much more sense than letting random foreign corporations siphon billions in profit they clearly don't deserve in the slightest from your economy. Good on Brazil for breaking free. There's finally been some push here in the EU for EPI/Wero, but progress has been frigid and online payment processing remains extremely fragmented to the point that if I buy something online outside the Benelux with a small vendor, chances are very high I will have to fall back to an American payment processor, which is insane.
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).Payment processors and financial institutions sure do seem to hold disproportionate amounts of power.
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On the one hand, oh noz, the incest games. Who will live without the low effort AI goon crap? On the other hand, why do the payment companies get to dictate what sales are made? It's my fucking money, or my fucking store. It's not the job of the payment processors to determine if I'm buying illegal goods, just that the money goes from me to the store.
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Gamers on Lemmy think Steam is THEIR corporation and Gabe is THEIR billionaire. You get downvoted for criticizing steam for anything, or even pointing out that they’re a corporation run by a billionaire and they don’t actually care about you.
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Oh shit, I saw that the original Leisure Suit Larry games are no longer for sale... wonder if this is why?
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).
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>why should they be forced to process payments that facilitate things against their beliefs? You'll excuse me for thinking this means you think corporate beliefs are more important than the social benefits of neutral financial institutions. To answer your question again without assuming anything about your opinion: they should be forced to process payments because they don't have beliefs, it's better for society if financial institutions only look at the business relevant portions of a business, and a legal obligation is perfectly sufficient to protect their business interests in reputation management. All the same reasons we don't let shipping companies refuse customers for morality reasons.
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).
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>why should they be forced to process payments that facilitate things against their beliefs? You'll excuse me for thinking this means you think corporate beliefs are more important than the social benefits of neutral financial institutions. To answer your question again without assuming anything about your opinion: they should be forced to process payments because they don't have beliefs, it's better for society if financial institutions only look at the business relevant portions of a business, and a legal obligation is perfectly sufficient to protect their business interests in reputation management. All the same reasons we don't let shipping companies refuse customers for morality reasons.What if these payment processors have decided it's bad business for them to process payments for incest porn games?
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It does extend to others since they put animated, innocent "kid-friendly" looking porn on imageboards. And yes it's akin to beastialty which is vile. Why else would you dress up like an animal?
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Bitcoin has [lightning](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_Network) or you could use a chain with faster blocks.>Lightning Labs launched the Lightning Network in 2018 with the goal of reducing the cost and time required for cryptocurrency transaction. Specifically, the bitcoin blockchain can only process around 7 transactions per second (compared to Visa Inc., which can process around 24,000 transactions per second). Despite initial enthusiasm for the Lightning Network, reports on social media of failed transactions, security vulnerabilities, and over-complication lead to a decline in interest.
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).
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Here's what i think is likely. For one reason or another, they get excessive refund/chargeback requests regarding these types of titles and decided to act as they don't think it's profitable. I don't think they care what so ever what you buy, as long as it's profitable for them.I wish that was the case. It's mostly just extreme right lobbying groups like Focus on the Family and the Alliance Defending Freedom, the same groups that control the far right, exert colonial control over impoverished African countries, and generally make the world a worse place for everyone. The same groups that manufactured cases to screw up Dobbs, Wedding cake lawsuits, and death penalty laws for LGBTQ citizens of Uganda.
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).
