First off: payment processors (yet again) don’t get to dictate what I as a customer am allowed to buy or not. Their reasoning doesn’t matter. If they prohibited sexual material (most do) then they are effectively trying to ban me from consuming or using sexual materials. Fuck. That. Shit. I don’t care for their reasoning, they are a payment processor, process payments and GTFO.
Secondly: this has nothing to do with refunds or chargebacks. Sex is the biggest product on the internet, still, and they’d bank like there is no tomorrow would they allow it. A more realistic scenario is that some religious organizations got their hands in there somewhere as they tend to do, in an effort to ensure that their sick mentality gets applied for everyone because there is no religion like a fucked up religion
Payment processors, such as PayPal. Are private companies and have a wide discretion to decide who they do, and don’t do business with. Just like you as a private person have a wide discretion to decide who you do, and don’t do business with.
A baker has every right to refuse a customer that wants a cake with a swastika on it.
So the same rules have to apply to PayPal being allowed to refuse to do business with certain industries. They are not your bank.
If, it was some “religious organization” that got their hands in PayPal. Why would they only stop authorizing payments in certain regions? Wouldn’t it then be applied everywhere?
The fact that it was only in specific regions. Makes it far more likely that it’s due to the legislation in those regions regarding incest. Rather than a moral decision from corporate PayPal to stop authorizing payments to Steam.
Steam did not remove every porn game. They removed those belonging to a very specific category.
Yeah, no.
First off: payment processors (yet again) don’t get to dictate what I as a customer am allowed to buy or not. Their reasoning doesn’t matter. If they prohibited sexual material (most do) then they are effectively trying to ban me from consuming or using sexual materials. Fuck. That. Shit. I don’t care for their reasoning, they are a payment processor, process payments and GTFO.
Secondly: this has nothing to do with refunds or chargebacks. Sex is the biggest product on the internet, still, and they’d bank like there is no tomorrow would they allow it. A more realistic scenario is that some religious organizations got their hands in there somewhere as they tend to do, in an effort to ensure that their sick mentality gets applied for everyone because there is no religion like a fucked up religion
Payment processors, such as PayPal. Are private companies and have a wide discretion to decide who they do, and don’t do business with. Just like you as a private person have a wide discretion to decide who you do, and don’t do business with.
A baker has every right to refuse a customer that wants a cake with a swastika on it. So the same rules have to apply to PayPal being allowed to refuse to do business with certain industries. They are not your bank.
If, it was some “religious organization” that got their hands in PayPal. Why would they only stop authorizing payments in certain regions? Wouldn’t it then be applied everywhere?
The fact that it was only in specific regions. Makes it far more likely that it’s due to the legislation in those regions regarding incest. Rather than a moral decision from corporate PayPal to stop authorizing payments to Steam.
Steam did not remove every porn game. They removed those belonging to a very specific category.