Just over a week after Steam updated its guidelines to prohibit content that “can violate the rules and standards specified by Steam's payment processors and related card networks,” specifically only adult content, and days after itch.
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Itching has now been censored by payment processors as well – we slip down the censorship
Payment processors should not be the ones who decide what art is.
Over at Reddits R/Steam Sub works players directly to contact Visa, a payment processor that has put the company in such a propensity in the first place. By using is displayed dedicated contact form and a carefully formulated message, they hope that things will change soon.
Dear View Customer Service Team,
I am concerned about the recent efforts to censor adult content on prominent online recorders, especially the platforms Steam and Itch.io. As a long -term visa customer, I see this as a massive overreaction to check what absolutely legal action/buy customers are allowed to spend their money on. Visa has no right to dictate the behavior of my or other consumers or to push free markets to follow vague, morally marked rules enforced by payment processing providers. Unless these draconian toppings are not reversed, I will have no choice but to stop managing a visa and instead switch to competing companies that are not directly involved in censorship efforts, namely discover and AmericanExpress.
For its part, visas have already begun to respond to players, although its response is not closely satisfactory, according to those involved in the efforts.
Visa says it is “engaged in protecting legal trade”
In a response shared by a player noted View it “explicitly” prohibits illegal activity, while sharing a commitment to “protect legal trade.” More specifically, the payment company noted that “If a transaction is legal, our policy is to treat the transaction. We do not make moral assessments in legal purchases made by consumers.”
“In fact, it is a real legitimate lie,” wrote a user in response.
Given the rapidly developing circumstances surrounding this new issue, only time will tell you what the resolution is. At least they do the most affected their best to help reverse the course.
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