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Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams
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This also goes to an entire new level. Before it was "only" censoring digital products and events. Now it is directly censoring media outlets.
This screams for an antitrust lawsuit, if a company has this kind of power.
Megacorp be megacorping.
We should always fight giants like this.
And think to not feed them indirectly.
(Not to mention that such basic infrastructure should never be for-profit.)