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.
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