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Mastercard Claims NSFW Game Bans Aren’t From Them, Valve Explains How Mastercard Launders Its Control (www.techdirt.com)
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[-] Goodeye8@piefed.social 43 points 4 days ago

Which would contradict their statement:

Our payment network follows standards based on the rule of law. Put simply, we allow all lawful purchases on our network. At the same time, we require merchants to have appropriate controls to ensure Mastercard cards cannot be used for unlawful purchases, including illegal adult content.

A store named "use these toys on fake dolls of children" is horribly distasteful but not illegal.

I can agree that maybe that type of content shouldn't be sold, but I also understand that's my personal opinion and not necessarily the law. Me, you or Visa or Mastercard should not be in a position to dictate whether it's acceptable to sell such content.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 4 days ago

EVEN IF a store was named "use these toys on fake dolls of children" (because this name would likely not even pass local laws but let's put that aside), the store can sell cookies and take MasterCard.

I'm going to play devil's advocate since the OOP is doing a terrible job of arguing their point.

If my brick and mortar store sold incest books, MasterCard could say, "We don't like how you sell this one book or category of books."

Like...fine. In which case they are being anticompetitive. The books aren't illegal. Distasteful, perhaps, but you don't see me complaining to MasterCard for processing bakery transactions, just because I hate gluten.

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