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.
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.