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Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 178 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Ana Valens recently resigned from Vice following an article about the censorship of games. On social media, she shared communication between Mastercard and Riot Games.

Looks like Vice can't be trusted as a reliable source of information if they're willing to fire journalists after a little outside pressure is put on them.

[–] Saleh@feddit.org 116 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 50 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Megacorp be megacorping.

[–] FalseTautology@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Best answer.

We are currently enjoying living through the period that most dystopian cyberpunk fiction just kinda glosses over, the antedystopian period where the transition to full blown megacorporatacracy and neu fascism.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago

The time when the transition underneath already happened but it's not formalised bcs the people could still snap it all back.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 70 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Could be great links to share over Riot Games streams.

  • MasterCard has asked Riot to keep an eye out for negative sentiments on official Riot streams
  • Riot has asked esports content creators working with official Riot properties to watch out for any negative sentiments toward MasterCard
  • Moderators have been told to look out for any unusual activity around the MasterCard issue

No better publicity than getting their own efforts thrown back at their faces.

MasterCard is running an effective PR campaign against themselves. They can't stop giving their critics all this gold.