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Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy.
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There is a lot of talk dancing around the issue here. This isn't an American thing or a puritan thing. This is purely a capitalism thing. They have been doing this for years. Do you think lolicon got forced off of every major platform for moral reasons? It breaks laws in various counties that the web hosts and payment processors operate in. Wincest porn, CNC porn, zoo stuff, NSFL stuff. It's all illegal somewhere. These companies are chasing profits. Those niche topics mentioned above lock them out of expanding into some places. Like China. They don't give a fuck about the ethics of the content. They care that they're loosing money by not being able to conduct business in those markets. You'll loose your little family harem video game. They don't care. They're making billions processing the main narket. It's capitalism and the global economy that's making your platforms more conservative.You're like the negative photo of a boomer. "Everything I don't like is capitalism!"
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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 itSteam used to accept Bitcoin, they stopped when the transaction fees made it unusable. Every time I remember that I get really pissed off, had the block size been increased back then Bitcoin would still be accepted in the many places it was (Steam wasn't the only one, lots of stores online used to accept it), but because they kept promising a magic solution that never manifested people lost hope and jumped ship (which did solved the problem as nowadays only investors use Bitcoin, so a lot less transactions, a lot more value in them, and higher fees matter less)
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Steam used to accept Bitcoin, they stopped when the transaction fees made it unusable. Every time I remember that I get really pissed off, had the block size been increased back then Bitcoin would still be accepted in the many places it was (Steam wasn't the only one, lots of stores online used to accept it), but because they kept promising a magic solution that never manifested people lost hope and jumped ship (which did solved the problem as nowadays only investors use Bitcoin, so a lot less transactions, a lot more value in them, and higher fees matter less)
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They had Bitcoin integration for quite a while. It was removed during a system change, probably because very few people used it
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).
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Ability to pay for anything legal implies accountability. I doubt payment processors are creating these rules because they're afraid of Jesus. They just did the math and there's probably a ton of disputes/chargebacks on certain content. Should two consenting adults be able to pay each other for whatever the fuck - absolutely. But dumb pipe only sounds really good until you get scammed.
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Dude SWIFT has more financial power and sway than visa and mastercard. They're the folks who manage the network that allows bank transfers to happen nigh instantaneously. So if they block you, you are fucked.
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The violent video games though, those are the latest satanic panic I've been aware of thanks to that idiot Jack Thompson
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None of that is relevant to the other comment's point that these companies should not have that level of authority to dictate what we can or cannot purchase. If it is legal to purchase, then payment processors should not be allowed to deny the purchase. Period.
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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).G*mers and GabeN throwing a shit fit right now. GabeN going to be more Aston Martins to crash.
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I hope that the EU creates a digital currency system that is universal, and for privacy coins to become common. I don't want to deal with American payment processors, because they want to prevent me from supporting the people who make my life better. Payment should be a dumb pipe, allowing me and you to uphold the social contract.The EU is investigating a digital euro, but you won’t be pleased to learn that one of the key reasons is to *increase* tracking and compliance. Meaning their stated goal is to be able to restrict how the currency is used, by who, when, and on what. The EU is the very last organisation to ever create and maintain an anonymous and agnostic currency.
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I'm not even sure those titles are legal everywhere. Allowing digital purchase of illegal products can very well be criminal for the payment processor in certain regions. I mean just look at those titles. "Incest daughter - BDSM".Which is why the retailer, Steam, already restricts certain regions from buying titles if they are deemed illegal in that region. Again, it is not the authority of the payment processors to dictate what people can and cannot purchase. Period. No excuses or justifications will be accepted.
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They've been pulling this shit for years. It's just been to stuff you agree with. You think the zoo porn just and drawn CSAM just disappeared from the big platforms and search engines because it was the right thing to do? Nah it was the processors and ad agencies. Pressure from capital. People just didn't care then because they agreed with it.
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I'm already looking into organizing a secularist group, both lobbying in the style of SKG, both uncovering pseudo-secular organizations rebranding christian moralism as "common sense".
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They might sort of have to do this or risk being cut off, given the loss of US Net Neutrality and the new pro-business-rights administration.We really also need payment neutrality. I don't like the content that's being removed, but I really don't like that visa gets to decide that websites are allowed to show, sell, and everything else. I don't give half a damn if someone decides to swipe their card at the heroin and machine gun store, visa shouldn't be the one deciding that they can't make that transaction
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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.This has (((THE JEWS))) energy. “The right” doesn’t control your access to big booty mommy incest porn. PayPal is doing this because it looks bad when op-eds are published showing their network is used to purchase questionable content. It’s the reason Visa and Mastercard shut down PornHub. This is why we need to foster the growth and adoption of cryptocurrencies like monero. The current payment providers are too big for their britches. They know customers don’t have any other choice.
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That's the fucking thing. It's played up to the point that kids might find it and like it. It wouldn't be a problem if they didn't fucking have conventions celebrating it. With kids.I think you should be more concerned about easily accessible things like hentai sites, weirdos, elsagate, etc. I don't know if there are any free hentai games on Steam (and if there are, they shouldn't be free), but children certainly shouldn't have free access to Steam (or even the internet in general), and if some parents kids can just spend their parents money on hentai, then maybe those parents should rethink their parenting methods and pay more attention to their kids, imho. Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
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   [Source](https://bsky.app/profile/steamdb.info/post/3lu32vdlsmg27).
