• Camelbeard
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      89 days ago

      I don’t care about these games and not even about steam, but a payment provider having any power over what content a service offers is really bad. It’s like your supermarket checking if you eat your food they sold you with cutlery.

      • @[email protected]
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        29 days ago

        I think a better example would be net neutrality. The whole purpose of the payment provider is to move money from Person A to Person B. Just like how ISP is meant to get you from Website A to Website B.

        It would be like your ISP going “Woah there buckeroo. You can’t go to Duck, Duck Go to search. We only let you go to Google.”

        • @[email protected]
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          28 days ago

          Ahh man, Australia have tried DNS blocking websites via our ISPs however running your own or changing your DNS (on your local machine or your modem if it’s not locked down) completely dumpsters this strategy.

          From memory torrent websites were blocked and some rom / game piracy sites.