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Credit Card Companies Are Hurting the Future of Video Games | By going after Itch.io, “we’re really hamstringing the future of arts and communication.”
By going after Itch.io, “we’re really hamstringing the future of arts and communication.”
Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, Stripe, and other major players that process most of the money people earn on the internet have always had this power, and have long discriminated against sexual content and sex work, but they have been forcing more change recently. I think that playbook could be replicated in ways that could get really dangerous for LGBTQ communities, especially in this political environment, where anybody can weaponize the opinions of a banker or a payment processor against certain types of content, there are huge swaths of people who are in powerful positions who don't understand what games can potentially be about. I really think that the first line of defending this creative industry has to be in the hands of people that are running platforms, and those are big businesses, and they have to sort of figure out how they negotiate with the even larger multinational financial corporations that they're beholden to.
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