Classic streisand effect

Ah ah ah boost that shit.

I remember during world's a couple of years ago, the stream chat was shouting "TY MASTERCARD" everytime their ads came up

MasterCard lied? No they would never

Anyway, thanks MasterCard for introducing me to porn games a few weeks ago

Oh wow, it's like everyone who said MasterCard was lying to protect their image from reality turned out to be correct. Only someone with a functioning brain could have seen this coming.

IMO MasterCard leadership already agreed with the nazis and were just looking for an excuse to act.

Man I just wish there were better alternatives to MasterCard and Visa.

With how things are going, I'd be happy to support an EU-based alternative.

I read that this is actually coming. I forgot what it was called though. Fingers crossed.

Bunch of losers

Ana Valens recently resigned from Vice following an article about the censorship of games. On social media, she shared communication between Mastercard and Riot Games.

Looks like Vice can't be trusted as a reliable source of information if they're willing to fire journalists after a little outside pressure is put on them.

There was an entire subreddit devoted to porn games but it's not made it over to Lemmy.

Maybe once I get laid off I'll start a community

I'm pretty sure I saw one, but maybe it was just general anime thirst trapping. There's a lot of niche abandoned communities.

GNU Taler?

This also goes to an entire new level. Before it was "only" censoring digital products and events. Now it is directly censoring media outlets.

This screams for an antitrust lawsuit, if a company has this kind of power.

I do believe MasterCard and Visa owners and execs are card holding Nazis.

Isn't Stripe one of the growing alternatives?

Stripe is a payment processor. It has different payment methods it supports. Which are MasterCard and Visa. But it does also support(if you can use it and the merchant accepts it): Giro card, other card options, Revolut Pay and other options. Those avoid the MasterCard, Visa ecosystem.

Regardless, not everyone wants to use or uses Stripe. And it's a bad thing for everyone to use Stripe just because of their interoperability because that then gives stripe too much power.

Plus, for a company like Valve, the fees of Stripe would severely affect their revenue.

Stripe bans even more stuff https://stripe.com/en-de/legal/restricted-businesses , recently they banned payments for online dating platforms in the US.