Digital violence is an emerging concept to categorize things like Cyberstalking, non-consensual intimate images (“revenge porn”), hate speech, online harrassment and cyberbullying.
Thing is, while these things are perpetuated through digital media, they are still targeted towards and very much affect real, actual people. Digital violence against people who do not even exist makes no sense whatsoever and should not be a thing.
Fanza just blocked oversea IP
Fantia dropped Visa and Mastercard, though I wonder if it was dropped entirely or, like DLsite, just “suspended” AKA they’ll start removing content anyway just to “unsuspend” them?
Personally, I’m OK with Sakoku to protect the sanctity of JP eroge.
Who do these dogshit credit card companies think they are? Dictating what you can use your card to buy. Fascists! Ok to buy guns and ammo though! Wait for that to drop next! Then how much food you’re allowed to buy. Letting these payment processors tell people what they can and can’t use their cards for is the beginning of total economic control over people’s lives!
I hope so. There are 2 ways to deal with a small fire. Try to put it out yourself… Or spread it forcing everyone else to do it for you. Then again, there are still people defending Sony. Still, if one cannot save their friends, make one’s enemies suffer is still a win.
There are several payment systems that refuse to support gun purchases and since a new merchant code specifically for weapons has been approved, it is likely some credit cards will disallow those purchases as well. This despite the fact that it is right listed in the Bill of Rights.
Speaking of: Mastercard - Wikipedia “On August 30, 2023, the American Civil Liberties Union, in combination with a coalition of other organizations, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission requesting an investigation into the policy as an unfair business practice under Section 5 of the FTC Act.” How’s that working out? If anything, with Mastercard making enemies of several JP companies, rather than removing content to bend over to Mastercard, wouldn’t it make more sense for those companies to help the ACLU with this?
Remember. It’s better to break your enemy than bend your own self.