Western Payment Processors Affect Overseas Retailers

posted 230 days ago by Unknownsailor 230 days ago by Unknownsailor +53 / -0

Mark Kern posted this on his X feed:

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.

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– Assassin47 10 points 230 days ago +10 / -0

it's supposedly "not legal" under US Federal Law (because you know, fuck states rights) to profit off of depictions of violence, sexual interactions of the underage, rape, etc, regardless if the characters are fictional or not

Huh, I didn't know that. Must be "mUH CrosSeD sTaTE LINES!" again.

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– DistilledLife 10 points 230 days ago +10 / -0

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.