{"id":950985,"date":"2025-07-30T07:39:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950985"},"modified":"2025-07-30T07:48:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T02:18:00","slug":"stop-controlling-us-online-gaming-community-rips-into-visa-mastercard-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/stop-controlling-us-online-gaming-community-rips-into-visa-mastercard-because\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stop controlling us\u2019: Online gaming community rips into Visa, Mastercard because\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Visa and Mastercard are facing the heat for pressuring online gaming platforms to remove hundreds of games, especially those with sensitive, adult themes. The companies urged big gaming platforms like Steam and Itch.io to take down these games, reportedly warning that if they continue, it could harm their payment systems. This move has affected not just a few, but tens of thousands of games, especially smaller and adult-themed ones that are otherwise legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visa and Mastercard are facing the heat for pressuring online gaming platforms to remove hundreds of games, especially those with sensitive, adult themes. The companies urged big gaming platforms like Steam and Itch.io to take down these games, reportedly warning that if they continue, it could harm their payment systems. This move has affected not just a few, but tens of thousands of games, especially smaller and adult-themed ones that are otherwise legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}