Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by creer on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:09PM (#44617863)

> there's really nothing puritan about American business culture. [...] utterly amoral.

What? Puritanism is not about some kind of blanket purity to be recognized or expressed from any angle, perspective or religion. And in American business is both extreme and extremely selective.

It's also very much about appearances and image projected. You have to accept a difference between anybody's personal values (in so far as these can show through the mess of corporate decisions), and the image that businesses believe they much display.

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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by tptacek on Saturday July 19, 2025 @02:22PM (#44617992)

You're talking about a culture that freely and enthusiastically sold opiates for decades. If they're cracking down on porn, it's because porn is costing them money, probably because people are disputing charges.

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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by creer on Saturday July 19, 2025 @03:10PM (#44618401)

The history of the US and "adult materials" goes so much further than potential disputed credit card charges.

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Re:Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to deli... by tptacek on Sunday July 20, 2025 @12:29AM (#44621984)

That's super interesting but a trivial Google search shows that chargebacks are a huge problem for this space so I'm not sure why I would care about that history.

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