https://consumerrights.wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=InitialPSDConsumer Rights Wiki - User contributions [en]2026-04-29T10:17:32ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.44.0https://consumerrights.wiki/index.php?title=Financial_censorship&diff=19502Financial censorship2025-08-15T10:00:53Z<p>InitialPSD: Got the page started, hope to see it grow over time--and I might work more on it too when I have more time on my hands.</p>
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'''Financial censorship''' is the practice of major [[payment processors]] to refuse to process transactions for entities they deem to not align with their own values. Since these payment processors hold an extremely dominant position in global finance with no widely-adopted alternative, this practice results in a strong chilling effect by making independent free expression that runs afoul of their policies financially unsustainable.<br />
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==Examples==<br />
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===Steam===<br />
In July 2025, [[Steam]], an online platform and digital marketplace for video games and related computer software and assets, added a new rule to their [https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/gettingstarted/onboarding#5 publishing guidelines] against "in particular, certain kinds of adult only content", and proceeded to withdraw hundreds of titles from sale on the platform.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Koselke |first=Anna |date=2025-07-18 |title=Valve confirms pressure from banks and card companies is to blame for the storefront axing adult Steam games: "Loss of payment methods would prevent customers from being able to purchase other titles" |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/games/valve-confirms-pressure-from-banks-and-card-companies-is-to-blame-for-the-storefront-axing-adult-steam-games-loss-of-payment-methods-would-prevent-customers-from-being-able-to-purchase-other-titles/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250726022008/https://www.gamesradar.com/games/valve-confirms-pressure-from-banks-and-card-companies-is-to-blame-for-the-storefront-axing-adult-steam-games-loss-of-payment-methods-would-prevent-customers-from-being-able-to-purchase-other-titles/ |archive-date=2025-07-26 |access-date=2025-08-15 |work=GamesRadar+ |quote=Judging by the information available on SteamDB, over 100 games have been marked as "retired" from Valve's storefront in just two days – many of which are titles with adult-only content.}}</ref><!-- TODO: add more examples --><br />
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==See also==<br />
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==External links==<br />
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*https://www.eff.org/issues/financial-censorship<br />
*https://www.change.org/p/stop-payment-processors-from-dictating-legal-purchases<br />
*https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/987/text<br />
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== References ==<br />
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