News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games. Parent comment

Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by baobabKoodaa on Saturday July 19, 2025 @08:59AM (#44615136)
The movements here (the pro-censorship movement & the anti-sexuality movement) are mainly driven by religious beliefs, and as such, it comes as no surprise that they do not want to apply censorship in a fair or even logically consistent way; they merely want to ban things they personally do not like.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by mango7283 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @09:07AM (#44615188)
As I pointed out earlier, it's also valid that they are savvy enough to pick their battles and divide and conquer - you can't take down a critical mainstream success like GOT or GTA, but you can go after fringe games with content most people would be uncomfortable publicly defending.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by baobabKoodaa on Saturday July 19, 2025 @11:17AM (#44616212)
Sure, I can see that being part of it (I didn't see this implication in your earlier post)
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by mango7283 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @12:24PM (#44616844)
Ah sorry I meant elsewhere in the thread
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by choo-t on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:03PM (#44617799)
The very same group did try to take down GTA V : https://www.collectiveshout.org/prostitution_survivors_call_...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by mango7283 on Saturday July 19, 2025 @06:41PM (#44620101)
Sure, but GTA is still on steam.
[ Parent | on HN ]