STEAM has updated STEAM to prohibit the “STEAM's payment processor and related card networks, especially adult -only content and ITCH.IO,” STEAM's payment processor and the rules and standards suggested by Steam's payment processor and related card networks. A week later, gamers around the world have shared that they have removed games that will cause direct conflict with payment processors.
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Itching is now censored by a payment processor. We are slipping on censorship.
The payment processor should not be a person who decides what art is.
In Reddit's R/Steam Sub, the player is trying to directly contact the company, Visa, a payment processor in such a troubled payment processor from the beginning. By using a dedicated contact form of the visa and a carefully represented message, they expect them to change soon.
Dear Visa Customer Service Team,
Customers are concerned about VISA's recent efforts to censor adult content in prominent online game retailers, especially Platforms Steam and Itch.io. As a long -time visa customer, I think this is a big over -rich in control of this completely legal action/purchase that can invest money. VISA has no right to instruct my or other consumers' actions to comply with the ambiguous and moral rules implemented by the payment processing provider, or to pressure the free market. Unless the Draco Nian imposition does not change, I will not be able to stop dealing with the visa and instead exchange to censorship efforts, that is, exchange to a competitive company that is not directly involved in Discover and Americanxpress.
According to those who are involved in this effort, the visa has already begun to respond to gamers, but the reaction is almost not satisfactory.
VISA said, “We are doing our best to protect legal commerce.”
In a response shared by a gamer, VISA stated that “explicitly prohibited” illegal activities and shared “legal commercial protection”. More specifically, the payment company said, “If the transaction is legal, our policy is to deal with transactions. We do not make moral judgments about consumers' legal purchases.”
One user wrote, “In fact, it is a real legal lie.”
Given the rapid development of this new problem, you can see what time is the solution. At least the most influenced people are doing their best to help the station course.
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