Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games from Steam
Payment processors have too much power, because they managed to wedge themselves into such a fundamental part of the economy. We need alternatives, but crypto isn't really a good answer. What other options do we have?
Regulation limiting the "approval" powers of the payment processors.
Or, an increase in viability of direct bank payments. There's vanishingly little reason that instant payments can't be available.
I'm not really hopeful about regulatory solutions, because having the ability to lean on Visa/Mastercard to shut down whatever you don't like without having to actually legislate it is actually super handy. If we had a better government I'd like that option more, but that seems like a bigger ask.
Direct bank payments seem like a good solution, but it seems like that keeps getting held up and it's hard to not think that that's due to the same regulatory capture.
GNU Taler: Home
GNU Tailer, it attempts to create a privacy friendly way to purchase with the requirement to make sellers privacy unfriendly to combat whitewashing.
Did I mention it’s not a cryptocurrency?
The Swiss National bank is the only public bank taking a look (nothing concrete).
Contact your bank that this needs to be a thing
I can't tell from the site, but is that something that requires broad support, like switching to a cryptocurrency? Or will it work just fine if only a few banks start using it?
Well, we HAD the CFPB, but Project 2025 and Fascist 47 got rid of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Taler
Checks.
It seems like that wouldn't scale well. I know a lot of places around me don't accept checks anymore, and it doesn't seem like much of one's digital life like Steam has any interest in accepting checks.