• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    So Valve says the processors - such as Stripe and PayPal - pressed the issue based on pressure from MasterCard (and possibly Visa). MasterCard says they had nothing to do with it. Itch says that Stripe was directly responsible in their case with a blanket ban on anything generally sexy, but that Stripe blamed their banking partners.

    So Stripe, at least, is directly responsible but insists they are under outside pressure. This means the pressure is coming from one or more actual banks. Since we don’t have names, we have to do some research to find out who Stripe works with. The possibilities I was able to dig up on a quick search include:

    • Citigroup
    • Wells Fargo
    • Barclays
    • Goldman Sachs
    • Evolve Bank & Trust

    It seems clear that this has nothing to do with legality in any jurisdiction and that some powerful financial institution is forcing their twisted, puritanical morality on anyone they can at the behest of like-minded authoritarian terrorists. One or more of the above institutions are most likely at fault.

    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      17 hours ago

      Shittygroup

      Hellsfargo

      Nutglaze

      Oldball sacks

      Devolve bank mistrust

      This is all still project 2025

      Donald Trump is on the Epstein list and is a child rapist

    • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      Sure. Let them whatabout. But to us, consumers, it shouldn’t matter.

      We know the stores aren’t responsible, so we shouldn’t attack them.

      The processors are. For Visa and MasterCard it’s pretty obvious. Itch, as you said, puts direct blame on Stripe, and I think we can trust that.

      As much as processors need banks, banks also need processors. It’s a sort of symbiosis. Damage to one actually trickles onto the other. So pressing onto processors isn’t a mistake. It’d be foolish at best and malicious at worst to suggest that.

      Now that we have leverage as users and consumers, having started a push which made way and caused a response (first the prepared phone statement and now a press release), the absolute wrong thing to do is bacl down and say “sorry, we were wrong, it was B after all and not you, A”.

      And look at it this way: There’s less payment processors and they’re smaller than banks. If you suddenly turn to banks, you won’t accomplish anything because to them, a few consumers who aren’t their customers doesn’t cause them even an itch. But if payment processors come to them it might.