Furore erupted a couple of months ago when Valve confirmed that payment processors— citing a Mastercard rule —had pressured it to stop selling a number of adult games. Angry Steam users, and people who weren't keen on payment processors deciding what adults are allowed to buy more generally, began hammering customer service lines with complaints and enlisting others to do the same. Some began petitions.

Well, at least one of those petitions has now gotten a response. A request on the official UK parliament petition website to "Ban payment processors stopping services based on objections to legal content", has earned enough signatures (>10,000) to warrant an official government response. And the government says… leave us alone, more or less.

"Payment processors are able to choose who they

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