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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by ls612 on Friday July 18, 2025 @08:34PM (#44611411)
This is one of the ways the government can censor people despite the first amendment. It’s absolutely by design. The regulators “express concern” about certain financial activity and then the companies remove it.
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by fragmede on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:03PM (#44612197)
this is such small potatoes compared to the results of everything going on right now though
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by sneak on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:30PM (#44612340)
No institutionalized censorship of harmless content is small potatoes.
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by fragmede on Friday July 18, 2025 @11:32PM (#44612350)
the other potatoes are really big
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by AngryData on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:12AM (#44613008)
I don't think so, it is death by a thousand cuts which is why we are in such a shitty place right now. Out rights have been attacked on all side for decades, little by little, but all together it is a huge loss.
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by fragmede on Saturday July 19, 2025 @06:57PM (#44620236)
the problem of Visa and Mastercard being against porn just seems like a such a small cut next to the US President forcing a comedian off the air for making critical remarks
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by fsflover on Sunday July 20, 2025 @06:05PM (#44629774)
They don't just block porn but many other things according to comments here.
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by herbst on Saturday July 19, 2025 @03:28AM (#44613338)
This is a long ongoing issue tho and one of the main reasons many European sex stores don't take credit card at all. Visa and master do enforce irrational morals
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