1d ago

Payment Processor

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/47095569

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Visa & Master Card blocked Payments for steam games.

Alt text: Fancy guy with Visa/Mastercard logo on his head in suit says: I do not think people should be allowed to buy these type of games. itch.io and steam reply: nobody is talking to you. Just process the payment, payment processor.

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Wait so visa and mastercard doesnt want you to buy games but would let you spend $1000s on CandyCrush which is basically a scam artist’s dream? We live in a glue drinkers reality where lead poisoning is the average intelligence.
- Don't forget you can have unbelievable gore and violence, but sex is naughty and horrible. Hypocrites
  
  Like the christian movement some time ago trying to ban Porn. God hates your species regardless.
  
  It's coherent, they approve human slaughter and are disgusted by human reproduction.
  They hate humans.
  
  Unless you're a young married Christian couple. Then it's all they fucking bring up at church.
- We're living in Libertarian fan-fiction universe. We've privatized all the critical cogs of society in the name of "Free Markets = Human Liberty!" and now we're discovering that a few orthodox reactionary CEOs are functioning as the tyrannical Communist dictators we were told privatization was supposed to protect us from.
  Incidentally, all this is happening as the US Government is gobbled up by the Silicon Valley cryptocurrency-obsessed tech sector. So I would not be surprised if this was - simultaneously - used as an excuse to shoehorn porn providers into accepting crypto exclusively while egging on crypto-banks to implement comparable restrictions on transactions and trades.
- "these kind of games" includes nsfw games on steam store.
Fuckin love any Ghost Stories reference, perfect
- Just fill the hole, hole filler
  
  probably the best running gag in the show
For the record, it sounds like Payment Processors and Credit Card companies are two different middlemen, and the Payment Processors are claiming the Credit Cards are the ones with restrictive policies.
I want more people to know about GNUTaler. Let's try to cut out all these middlemen, they aren't necessary!
- credit card companies isn’t really a good term: it could cover many things
  what you’re looking for is “card networks” - that’s visa and mastercard… and you’re right; payment processors are a different part of the system
  
  Thanks, that 👍
Your daily reminder that Mastercard was already instituting ridiculous requirements for adult content sites, like pre-approval of content, even before the current NSFW game removals in response to Collective Shout. No matter what they want to try and claim, they're complicit in this.
- Indeed! They're in the spotlight now but they've been fucking with the adult industry for decades. It's because of them that there are rules as to what can and can not be filmed. There are also banned words that can't be used in the film or film's description. This list of rules and words grows more and more over the years. Fuck visa/mastercard!
- I could accept the porn restrictions, because there is a genuine risk of real harm if adequate safeguards are not put on porn sites. Plus porn isn't really art (don't drag me into that debate, if you disagree just say you disagree).
  With games, there is next to no risk of real harm and games are art. It is orders of magnitude worse.
  
  A payment processor should have no say in whether I can spend my money on something. They should be following the law and that's it. If there is no law saying what I want to purchase is illegal, then they should STAY THE FUCK OUT OF IT. PERIOD.
I'm saying, take the fucking payment and shut your removed ass up.
~~Put the fries in the bag~~ Run the fucking card, stupid
Can't you just go and buy some Steam gift cards?
- The issue is that the card processors got Steam and Itch to delist some games completely. You csnt even buy with with a Steam card.

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