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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by littlestymaar on Saturday July 19, 2025 @05:57AM (#44614064)
As usual, the actual “cancel culture” comes from the conservatives.
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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by docmars on Saturday July 19, 2025 @10:07AM (#44615589)
Collective Shout (who pushed for this) is not a conservative group, but rather a feminist activist group based in Australia.

They're responsible for numerous other calls for bans against games like Detroit: Become Human, GTA, etc.

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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by littlestymaar on Saturday July 19, 2025 @11:10AM (#44616141)
This ban has nothing to do with the call to ban incestual rape games (which is what you refer to), but comes from MasterCard, which has a long story of puritan censorship.

(It's clear in the article, btw).

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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by docmars on Saturday July 19, 2025 @11:21AM (#44616270)
Collective Shout is the activist group that put pressure on MasterCard to make this decision. They're claiming and celebrating the work they did to make this happen on their own X account.
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