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Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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Valve have added a new rule to the Onboarding guide for game developers, noting that payment processors get a say in what stays on Steam.

Newly added rule is:

Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.

Diff of the new terms https://github.com/SteamDatabase/SteamworksDocumentation/commit/fddd59b5395cc3c1c74574650dbf5784612d0521

:/ payment processors strike again (slippery slope etc)

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Government essentially guaranteed that by classifying it as such, e.g. SEC regulating crypto

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 days ago

Huh? Investment people definitely didn't wait for that classification to start turning it into a speculations market. The SEC actions were largely reactive.

My local bank's investment and wealth management bros were already all about crypto long before regulations.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Gov can't really do anything about it. Bitcoin was designed to be gov agnostic. They can tell you it's illegal but there's also really no way for them to know (if you're not dumb).

Hell there are entire unregulated black markets on the dark web.

Also with the orangutan in chief being something of a crypto grifter himself, it's not likely to be regulated at all.