Mark Kern posted this on his X feed:
Archive link: https://archive.is/WNiDl
Original link: https://nichegamer.com/dlsite-temporarily-blocks-major-western-payment-processors/
DLSite, a website which sells doujinsoft manga, video games, and more has seemingly been forced to refuse major western payment processors Visa and Mastercard.
The article goes on to report that American Express has been added to their blocked policy.
Visa and Mastercard strike again. What was done to Gab in 2018, and others since then, is spreading overseas, to other places.
I'll add another thing, something that Sundance at CTH has posted about several times.
The economic sanctions regime levelled at Russia is not designed to erect a wall against Russia, it is designed to erect a wall around US. It is designed to keep us from escaping their control. You are watching the mechanisms for that be put in place as we speak.
Stuff like this is a million times more important than whatever impotent shit conservatives care about, but not a peep from any of them about it. Being able to spend your money how you please is just as important as free speech and association
Case and point, this stupid post is near the top off my feed https://communities.win/p/17siXNrhSS
Conservatives are losing because they're shooting themselves in the foot with issues like abortion while ignoring the fact that the women who would get an abortion would raise more fucked up kids. Conservative women aren't getting abortions
Also being against video games ("waste of time") even though many gamers are against wokeness and would otherwise help their cause
We should be working together and get over the little things
Conservatives are utterly useless. All they "conserve" is the stuff the lefties fought for a few years ago.
Yes, buying manga is more important than stupid shit like school teachers secretly convincing kids they're trannies. 🙄
Edit: Just to confirm for the downvoters, yes I think the person I replied to is a stupid cunt with fucked up priorities.
USailor may have oversimplified the situation in the main post, but this is not just about buying manga. This has been affecting a number of individual content creator sites. It's denying users in non-US nations from using certain payment methods just because these websites host stuff that is legal in their own country. This is the US Congress fucking around with foreign economies through large-scale businesses that operate internationally. Yes, it involves the types of purchases some people don't care about, but this shouldn't be happening on principle.
If you don't inherently see the problem here, you are an idiot. I don't even care about manga.
And when some nerd that touches himself to anime girls insists that this is the most important thing, while all other concerns are "impotent", he deserves to be roundly mocked.
TTD won't matter if government controls what you buy at the end of it all.
Reading comprehension is hard, but you’ll get it right someday.
I comprehend just fine, fuckstick. And I'm quite certain that conservatives being concerned about leftists grooming children is far more important than impotent nerds buying comic books from overseas companies.
If you think that’s what OP was saying, then no, you did not understand just fine. It’s okay to be retarded, just don’t be an ass about it.
Haha no one cares about Israel anymore! Seethe conservcuck
Who said anything about Israel, you impotent nerd? I'd laugh if Israel got nuked, so I don't think you have any idea what you're talking about. Go back to dry humping your anime body pillow, and shut the fuck up, weeaboo.
It was either block Mastercard / Visa, or submit to US laws regarding content distribution and payment. It's exactly the same choking that was done to Pixiv last year, as well as Patreon early last year. DLSite makes a good chunk of their money off hosting a lot R18/porn content, so they weren't going to bend the knee like Pixiv did.
This has been going on for a few years now, but basically anyone operating within the United States has to abide by US laws across the entire company anywhere in the world. So in regards to MC/Visa, that means they have to block purchases in jurisdictions outside the United States if they aren't legal under US law.
I have no fucking clue how this is legal internationally or even allowed by the WTO, but somehow the payment processors are abiding by it, potentially committing slowburn economic suicide doing so.(Actually I do remember the excuses they made for this, see below "activist" comment)When it comes to pornographic content, it's supposedly "not legal" under US Federal Law (because you know, fuck states rights) to profit off of depictions of sexual violence, sexual interactions of the underage, rape, etc, regardless if the characters are fictional or not. Such depictions in the fictional realm are 100% legal in Japan, so as it stands right now, MC/Visa are trying to choke off Japanese porn content by drying up anyone's incentive to make it. Believe me, these artists don't make hentai for free.
Honestly, the right way forward would be for Japan, and many other nations, to pull out of Visa/Mastercard entirely. Kick them out of their nations and choke them instead by denying them a customer base. Make these PPs lobby Congress to remove the bullshit laws.
Huh, I didn't know that. Must be "mUH CrosSeD sTaTE LINES!" again.
Actually, I might have fudged my memory on the "fictional or not" bit. My current recollection of how it happened is that it started with activist groups (orgs like RAINN) threatening these places like Patreon and Pixiv, and then they brought it to the attention of Mastercard/Visa, citing "federal laws". I'm not sure it's 100% the case that there are federal "obscenity" laws, but it seems to be that said groups are conflating fictional material (nebulous) with physical material (absolutely? illegal), similar to the retards that conflated Senran Kagura with pedophilia/CP years ago. This conflation is the excuse that the payment processors are using along with the newer "across the company" law, ergo, by applying US Fed law to foreign purchases in this manner, fictional works are getting attacked. Sites that caved to keep MC/Visa are obviously patrolling their paywalls to find "illicit content" because I do see stuff get taken down.
Meanwhile OnlyFans and twitch sexploitation continues unabated.
Visa/Mastercard and visa are a monopoly (duopoly). I wonder how Russia/China avoid these scamming parasitical companies imposing their agenda?
OK: Porn that would be 100% violent rape if it weren't for a signature on a piece of paper
OK: Donations to CAIR and Islamic terrorism
OK: Paying convicted pedophiles to spread their legs in miniskirts in front of 6 year olds and flashing their testicles
NG: Some Japanese guy trying to get paid for drawings
Visa and Mastercard- remember they FIRST came for Julian Assange and Wikileaks because his journalism revealed the US military fragging Reuters journalists for fun.
If the world had rewarded his great journalism perhaps we wouldn’t have seen Israel fragging Aid workers this week?
Blood on Visa and Mastercard’s hands if I am ever in a jury deciding damages…
Yes, I recently had to make a transaction outside of the system and it's damn near impossible. Crypto is in fact the best way but reintegration after you get it to crypto still posses a challenge. I was unable to solve it and had to get a foreigner involved.
Clown World wants it that way, they can't control things if people are freely transact world wide.