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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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