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• Goodeye8@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Valve corporation is an American company. America has used visa and mastercard to target ICC judges who also live outside the US. If the government wants they can try and strongarm Valve to do their bidding

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  • tixooo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    for some time yes … but when valva looses the world, and is left just with the us market … they will change elegance real fast.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The federal government can prevent an American firm from serving an foreign customer.

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  • tixooo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure. And we can simply download our games off off steam or any other web page and continue playing while that company decides to move off of that country to a normal country. There are solutions to everything.

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    • Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I agree there are workarounds. But it would be a massive heartbreak to lose the game collection that took years to build.

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      • tixooo@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        yep, anything digital is not yours.

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