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Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 146 points 2 days ago (8 children)

"Unlawful" based on what? American law?

These are global payment companies, they can't just have a "we don't allow payment for illegal content" cause that varies by country (and by state even).

What an absolutely nothing statement.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We should demand mastercard shut down all payments to everyone, as their very business model clearly falls afoul of the laws of the People's Republic of North Korea.

[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Now this is the kind of movement I can get behind.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 2 days ago

Exactly in the US I can buy an assault rifle. Something that would be a crime in most other countries.

[–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

By that reasoning they should not accept payments for alcohol, as that's illegal in some countries...

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 2 days ago

From the article

So this seems like Mastercard are basically saying "it's not us".

[–] Ajen@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

They're obviously basing it on the local laws of the business and customer. That varies from each transaction to the next. They're just saying that they don't restrict anything that they aren't legally required to restrict.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

I don't think that's accurate because they asked Dlsite before them to restrict their content based on American Law. They tried to remove access to content from outside Japan that Visa was complaining about and Visa still told them to remove the content (I guess cause people were using VPNs) so they had to remove the ability to pay with visa and Mastercard entirely.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago

Publicly, they're saying we don't want to get sued for allowing the purchase of illegal content, We have no problem with legal content.

That's not to say that's how they are phrasing it too the publishers.

[–] mugita_sokiovt@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago

That's the problem. It's the payment processors who were bullied by Collective Shout who chose what to ban, not Valve or the US.