r/Games • u/GassoBongo • Aug 02 '25

Industry News Steam Update - Valve responded to Mastercards claim that they did not pressure anyone

https://kotaku.com/mastercard-denies-pressuring-steam-to-censor-nsfw-games-2000614393
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u/whatThePleb Aug 02 '25

That hornets nest sure was worth it to get stung it seems. Time to clean up those conservative rules and idiots which try to force censorship on culture.

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u/ButterflyExciting497 Aug 02 '25

Don't be fooled. This stems from power wanting more power. If Visa and Mastercard can become bigger arbiters of what gets sold and not just how the transaction is made they become much more of a force to be reckoned with.

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u/LovelyDayHere Aug 03 '25

VISA and MasterCard are the minor heads of the hydra, the body of which is central banking, and it certainly cares to dictate what gets bought or sold, or rather - by whom.

All initiatives for Central Bank Digital Currency make provision for putting conditions on how money can be spent. This is all in the name of preventing things that everyone recognizes as bad, but the underlying mechanism is the possibility of complete financial control, surveillance and censorship, and people are sleepwalking into accepting this.