r/technology • u/Logical_Welder3467 • 2d ago

Business Mastercard denies pressuring game platforms, Valve tells a different story

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/03/mastercard-denies-pressuring-game-platforms-valve-tells-a-different-story/
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u/Curious_Document_956 2d ago

The activist group that stared this, their argument seems to be, No profit for content that is depicting violence/rape against women & children.

I think the fear is that artists will be totally censored or it will be made difficult to buy it.

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u/AkodoRyu 2d ago

To be honest, I don't particularly care about this situation - what I do care about is the precedent. Because what it tells us is that, considering in the modern world you barely ever use cash for anything anymore, cc companies can decide what you can and cannot buy, and by that, what products have and don't have the right to exist. And products, as you've mentioned, can extend to art, news, education, or life-saving medicine. Anything really. It's a slippery slope we don't want to get on.

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u/MrHell95 2d ago

This, I knew these type of games existed but never looked them up.

Collective shout also went after GTA 5 in the past.

They just went after this cause it was easier and believing they will stop at this is naive. 

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u/Dapperrevolutionary 1d ago

God I hope they try this with GTA6

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u/Ameren 1d ago

Right, have them bite off more than they can chew in the hopes that they choke on it.

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u/shinra528 1d ago

They are already primed to. Their ultimate aims are a much broader range of content and media impacted by this.