And I'm saying precisely that it's not their job to question where I spend my money on.
Yes, 100% true. On the flipside, some tech companies have reached a point where the "public interest" in how they do their business is so high it becomes difficult to see them as just another pub where the innkeeper has decided not to allow people with yellow socks in. When everyone and their mom uses service A to do something, it's no longer just another business you can easily avoid - especially when we're talking about de-facto monopolies on a global scale. I don't know.
and you people don't realize if you let the government, corporation, people to push you around and ban things for you then the end goal is something like china where you need government Id just to register for games.
"Free Speech," at least in the USA protects your right to criticise the government. It does not protect your right to say anything you want, anytime you want.
Visa and Mastercard control 90% of all payments (outside of China):
quartr.com
Just imagine if these games would be sold physically....no one could interfere. Why is it than possible to do this if you are buying online? Its like two different sets of rules here for one and the same thing.
Nothing is preventing that from happening now.
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Ofc we can go back to those times and selling 100gb+ games on physical media? But why? Just because of Visa/Mastercard putting their values above law? Thats hilarious.
What law is Visa/Mastercard breaking here?
remember when people were saying that No Mercy was unique and if they just capitulated it would stop there? well ends up those of us warning about the slippery slope then were right… and I say that as someone who thought the game was creepy as fuck
I think Japan is already pulling the anti trust law card against Visa at least.
If more countries do that...lets see how this plays out. I wouldnt even care if these companies are getting banned themselves in as many as countries as possible. Than they can enforce whatever they want. As I said....they should be happy that they are holding this monopoly. If they start to fuck around...this monopoly needs to be taken away....simple as that.
really sounds like a memo that you would find on Cyberpunk 2077 where corpo controls everything
There's a 100% chance that all of the deviancy that the woke left loves will remain untouched.
Yeah, fuck that creepy game. But fuck moral policing 1000% times more. This goes beyond any culture war shit-flinging IMO, this is straight up old-fashioned censorship. Everyone should be against this.
Ye same thing happened with over a decade ago with Julian Assange so people ended up donating them bitcoin rather than sending currency donations via Paypal/ Visa/Mastercard and now the guy is a multimillionaire
Sadly shouting about it won't actually do anything, The only work around is using a money that no one can stop the transaction of.
My bank is offering me exactly two options: a visa credit card or no credit card. People acting like this is just some "use something different"-case are delusional. And in the end alternatives doesnt really help, when stores are bullied to take off legal goods at all. Its also not guaranteed, that other payment processors just dont do the same. I am really not a huge fan of government regulations, but this is something which needs to be sort out by higher forces I guess.
No, they are regressive-left feminists/femcels who have found common ground with evangelicals on the issue of porn and sexual exploitation.
I was waiting for the "muh slippery slope" and "it's just a game bro, it's not real" responses. It's like saying outlawing rape is a slippery slope to outlawing sex. It's not. Real or not, only a degenerate would play those sick games and I'm 100% anti-degenerate, so if something pisses them off and doesn't affect me, I can only take it as a positive. This is happening because almost nobody wants to push back against it, plain and simple. If they tried to ban something of value, people would actually push back.
You're right that they should have been more proactive with moderation. One of the many things Steam drops is always dropping the ball on.
In fact, Steam previously accepted Bitcoin as a payment method until pressure from similar influential figures led to its ban, leaving only payment providers under their total control.
And how long before social media pressure campaigns by sjws(woke-left) or rwnj's(woke-right) target those groups? In this case it's bi-partisan and short-sighted.
Thank you for reminding me why I've kept netflix cancelled
Probably are. You can still search for Gay, Lesbian, LGBT, Yaoi, Yuri stuff on there under their tag search bar thing.
They can also do it digitally via Bitcoin and the transaction would not be stopped by anyone. Regardless of media format. This is a greater issue with Payment processors doing major overreach and using their power to make EVEN VALVE bend the knee.
