Comment Re:I understand. (Score 1) 57
If Steam said, "No, we'll find another processor that isn't trying to run our business for us,"
You seem to be confused just how much of a monopoly the payment processing world is. Payment processors have acted as the moral police for decades now and have killed entire genres of the adult industry single handedly. There are many out there who have actively tried just going to someone else, and repeatedly failed.
Not really a monopoly, rather a cartel. I know this is largely a semantic difference because to you, I and millions of businesses the end result is the same but a monopoly is a single entity, payment processors are 2 large entities (Visa and MasterCard) and a few smaller ones (notably AMEX and Discover) colluding together.
And the issues come from governments, specifically the US government giving them too much power. Most other western countries (EU, UK, Australia) have laws that state they must process the payment _UNLESS_ it is explicitly illegal. No playing "moral policeman", if someone wants to pay for sex, then they can pay (assuming it's legal in that jurisdiction). We also tend to provide non-card based options like direct bank transfers, free of charge so that if they do kick up a stink it's not going to matter anyway.