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by Cider9986 11 days ago
>In July 2025, Visa and Mastercard pressured major digital storefronts Steam and Itch.io to delist thousands of adult and NSFW games.
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Yes, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

Let's ignore the fact that that was done by private companies and not directly by a government.

The mechanism is to make it so undesirable objects are not available for sale. The above comment is implying these things would remain legitimately for sale as normal, but you would be unable to spend money on them.