Should we leave for sale, in Steam, games with incest and violations? The platform to buy PC games and belong to the Valve studio decided and announced, on July 22, 2025, a modification of its distribution rules.
From now on, the games “probably break the rules and standards established by Steam payment managers and associated cards and banks” can no longer be available.
This led to the elimination of more than 27,000 games, many of which in the equivalent name: Sex: dad daughter Incet BDSMof Sexual people, INTET TELS: Webcam Daughtereither Incet such: sister and mom.
No more was needed for social networks to accuse the main payment managers, including the visa, the leader of the sector, censorship. The company, which manages the cards of the same name, therefore, spoke, denying having pressed Vape on this subject.
Visa refutes any “moderation” of content
In Reddit, a surfer shares the response of the visa to the emerging controversy: “As a multinational, we follow the laws and regulation where we do business. Although we expressly prohibit illegal activities in our network, we are also dedicated to the protection of legal companies. If a transaction is legal, our rules stipulate that we validate the transactions.”
Visa adds “not moderating” the content sold by companies using their network: “We have no visibility in the details of the products or services sold when we administer the transaction.” The company adds resting standards at rest with banks to protect themselves from possible legal problems.
However, the case surrounding the retreats from games in Steam was claimed by an Australian NGO, supported by a group of American religious activities aimed at suppressing any form of pornography in culture.
This is not the first time that Visa has been accused of censorship. In 2022, the company had been summoned next to Pornhub in a case of videos transmitted on the pornographic platform and with minor people or “revenge porn.” Visa had been described as an “accomplice” of the lack of moderation in Pornhub, although he had stopped serving the platform since 2020.
In Japan, where the fight against the non -censored pornographic content is taken very seriously, the head of the Japanese subsidiary had been accused of pressing its clients so that they no longer distribute jobs that can lead to organizational pressures or test threats. In 2024, the archipelago had been shaken by the closure of several adult manga distribution sites, including the Manga Z library, after being forced not to accept payments for Visa and Mastercard cards.
Source: BFM TV
