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Gabe Newell asked Valve's top lawyer "What the f*** do I pay you for if that’s your opinion?" in heated debate over porn games on Steam, report says (www.gamesradar.com)
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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 55 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wasn't there an issue with credit card processors threatening them?

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 48 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Payment processors/banks should not be the arbiters of ethics. If a thing is legal, they should be REQUIRED to handle it, or lose their ability to conduct business nationwide.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 10 points 13 hours ago

They should but Americans (where processors are based) will use them as a tool when needed. Also their government could make phony allegations and they would have to enforce them. We need more processors world wide! I hope that EU does it right this time.

[–] cattywampas@lemmy.world 63 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Valve could probably just start their own bank at this point.

[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 34 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Steam Bank? Steam Vault? Oh Steam Treasury! Steam Financial Alliance, i would immediately dump the parasites i have now.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

PayValve, if Gabe wanted to be on the nose and take the piss out of Paypal.

[–] Damage@feddit.it 3 points 6 hours ago

Steam Tank is right there

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 23 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Just call it Condensation.

[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Valve Liquidity

[–] BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 6 hours ago

Aperture Finance

[–] thejml@sh.itjust.works 17 points 23 hours ago

I always figured they could just charge the card for a "gift card" for that amount... Which then immediately gets used for the "adult themed" game. Or at least allow the games to be sold on the store only with gift cards.

[–] kibblebits@quokk.au 20 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

That does sound like a payment processor!

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 46 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Financial censorship is a useful tool for people who want stuff censored.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 13 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

It's their most effective tool at this point.

[–] BillyClark@piefed.social 13 points 22 hours ago

I'd say it's their most effective direct tool.

But if you count indirect tools, I think the propaganda out there is more effective. There are school districts where somebody on the school board encountered a bit of propaganda, and then before you know it, the school district is choosing on its own to censor their own libraries of things like LGBTQ+ materials.