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Mastercard insists it has not "required restrictions of any" game on Steam or itch.io, but Valve claims otherwise


As Steam and Itch.io continued to grapple with recent pressure by payment processors to withdraw NSFW games from their …

Shortly after, indie-focused digital distribution platform Itch.io began 'deindexing' all NSFW games, blaming the same anti-porn group - Australia-based Collective Shout - that had pressured Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal into targeting Steam. But amid all this, Mastercard is now attempting to distance itself from recent events, denying it put pressure on Itch.io and Valve to remove games from their platforms. This latter clause prohibits "the sale of a product or service, including an image, which is patently offensive and lacks serious artistic value (such as, by way of example and not limitation, images of nonconsensual sexual behavior, sexual exploitation of a minor, nonconsensual mutilation of a person or body part, and bestiality)", but also "any other material that the Corporation deems unacceptable to sell in connection with a Mark."

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