Anime and Manga Censorship is About to Get Worse

[@ChibiReviews]

Long story short, VISA is manipulating Merchants through Acquirers to make more money while censoring sites.

[@callibor3119]

Japan needs to get more people put of Japan. The more people from Japan coming tot he West, there can be collaborative efforts to get more people across the globe in great relationships to Japan and the West to speak Japanese and other languages. And we will lessen the chances that extremism will cause problems within our nation as governments have made collaborations to make sure that citizens are not committing violence towards themselves and others from other nations.

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

If this was for something that isn't japanese and if it was something that is pushed getting shut down, there would be so much backlash they'd lose everything

[@OffensiveAtheist]

That's a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

Sounds like something that requires free market solutions, pre-paid cards could be a possible temporary solution.

[@DudeSoWin]

European Big Pharma might Luigi them too if they don't purchase the latest reproductive medicines. Remember everything evil comes from France.

[@benjaminrogers8875]

Customer: I consent! JP store: I consent! Visa: I DON'T! Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?

[@NonHuman69]

So Japan doesn’t have a saying in this is ass

[@Frostyboii7]

Chibi really is running out of video ideas, this is like the 6th video in the past month about anime censorship. He's become a doom posting channel now.

[@ChiePet_]

@@Frostyboii7 and there's going tot be 100 more; its a really big deal. when you censor one thing, anime or not, it opens the door to censor other things. a slippery slope. being informed is important.

[@Frostyboii7]

Nvm I just went back and counted, he's done 13 videos about censorship. Milk that cow dry.

[@Frostyboii7]

@ChiePet_ 1 video is enough to get the point, we don't need 13 videos about the same topic over and over again. Fear click bait for views.

[@SavantPete]

It's sad when you realize Mr Krabs is a very accurate depiction of corporate green. And we have many Mr Krab clones

[@younasdar5572]

How so? Mr crabs would see how many people are willing to spend money on uncensored content and immediately start investing in and advertising it. The Problem is the people with influence acting different to mr. crabs by willingly refusing potential profit for the sake of social engeneering.

[@ianswinford5570]

True. I guess you could say that we need more Mr. Krabs’ based on your description.

[@merafirewing6591]

​​@@younasdar5572 what Mr. Krabs has going for him is that he is more flexible than the typical businessman.

[@Unapologeticweeb]

It's actually worse at least mister Crabs just wants money and isn't trying to shove an ideology down my throat

[@MWhaleK]

Mr Krabs was unrealistically nice and kind.

[@JCWinters-bu8de]

I heard that Japan is working on adding protections against these card companies just like with the FCC who tried killing Net Neutrality and caused states to push for their own protections against ISPs. Hopefully Japan can get through this…

[@jamesdrake3651]

Got a link?

[@knowledgeseeker4614]

Even if he had a link, KZbin censors links. I heard a similar thing to what he said. However, I couldn’t be sure how accurate it is either.

[@JCWinters-bu8de]

@@jamesdrake3651 Don’t want to trigger KZbin’s awful Bots and rules, so I’ll give you this: KZbinr: Hero Hei Video: “Japan Threatens Action Against The West”

[@Thiccness_Is_Delicious]

​@@JCWinters-bu8de Good ole hero hei ❤

[@ianswinford5570]

My hopes and prayers are with them.

[@nar1bunny]

As a digital artist over the past year I've had to shut down both my Pixiv and patreon cause of the stupid card company's screwing with everything if someone wants to comishion someone to do art and they wanna pay with cash you don't see the dollar bill start throwing hands and trying to stop you lol this situation is just stupid and sad

[@Soren59]

fr the fact it's even legal for them to do this is ridiculous, but that's the reality of living in an oligopoly

[@Alaryk111]

Can't people just pay you from mobile apps?

[@kaiserknuckle9261]

Yeah they really are making a art career a starving one hope your doing ok

[@Layarion]

i'm calling bs on "it's not about censorship" it is. the money part is a bonus to them

[@echidnanation8239]

They know western media sucks, so they’re trying to eliminate the competition

[@Un-Required]

Most definitely both and also a little bit of virtue signaling

[@ahmuadparks9248]

Well, if they do that, they getting no money except for people who support us nonsense

[@Layarion]

@@ahmuadparks9248 yes, and that would be the company "black rock" they're an investment company that is extremely DEI and using their investor position to move companies to that agenda.

[@mikhailsharon4331]

It's the nose tribe.

[@Just_a_turtle_chad]

Bratty card companies need correction 💢

[@ericremy2746]

PLAP PLAP PLAP

[@ianswinford5570]

Agreed

[@merafirewing6591]

Bring out old reliable, the yardstick.

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

@@merafirewing6591 Old reliable in my eyes is the boom stick. A very appropriate tool indeed.

[@plasmafonk]

Go bankrupt, go bankrupt, go bankrupt, go bankrupt!

[@ForTehNguyen]

Visa already backed down after removing payments from that otaku dating app after some japanese lawmaker said they would look into it, hopefully that spills over to this

[@17th_Colossus]

The fact that it was so easily reversed, so quickly, shows how much power Visa holds in the decision making process. It may have been the biggest mistake they made, unintentionally showing their hand. But it's great for us and Japanese businesses.

[@BYT13]

I hope that lawmaker makes it into a full investigation, don't give them an inch.

[@rezahydra]

If you waver once in a battle between right and wrong, it’s a sign of weakness showing you as the wrong. If Japan does not halt this now, they never will. They damn well better fight as if it’s life or death for the entire country, or else it very well would be. Wonder if they’re gonna hit Toei or Shueisha and realize after the literal political war against the entire JP government they got in to.

[@jase276]

It's about control, when they saw someone with power willing to push back they got scared.

[@TheBlackOtaku]

I really hate this era that we live in 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@tvblue3010]

It’s a nightmare.

[@Chilloutandwatchanime]

Once anime became a mainstream thing things have steadily been going downhill

[@gwaredric2502]

​@@ChilloutandwatchanimeTHIS.

[@Sargonarhes]

There have been enough companies, not just in Japan affected by this. Probably enough to launch a massive class action lawsuit against VISA, and don't stop just because they backed off on a few things. This is hunting, they must be chased down and pursued until they're scared enough to fire and scapegoat all the activists involved in this. I mean they need to clean house, any one that wants to stop the transfer of money for legal goods has to go and never be allowed to work in this business again.

[@WilliamShinal]

Let this be the legal challenge variant of the old Wild Hunt. If MasterCard starts acting up too, let us go there as well once we're done.

[@escahiro6538]

What’s worse is that Anime admittedly is easier to target and squeeze because honestly speaking outsiders looking in don’t understand the culture and call everything to do with anime “Sus” to put it very mildly.

[@hoppy8008]

I was right all along, the credit card companies were testing the waters and it backfired badly. At least a line is established, where if they try a stunt like this on another dating site, the same or higher level of backlash will occur.

[@drayenomg]

Reminds me of one of my dad's wise words: "if it's too stupid to be true, it's almost always about money"

[@myliege8197]

I thank god that my first credit card was the Japanese JCB card and not a fucking VISA card.

[@MilanoBosman-uk6zp]

I hate Visa and Mastercard!!!!!😡😡😡😡😡😡😡

[@Jery-ej3iz]

How bro felt after posting this:🗿

[@knocker9391]

They have absolute monopoly on internet money bc of usa gov backing.

[@DakkaScrappa]

Gcash: i got you homie

[@MilanoBosman-uk6zp]

@DakkaScrappa thank you

[@Laxhoop]

Well how we win this is very simple. Just tell people what it is: Cultural colonialism being committed by a credit card company. And if that doesn’t work, Luigi 2.

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

Double Luigi for master card and Visa

[@synaesthesia888]

Yall cant just un-alive anyone you dont like 🤦‍♂️

[@StupidAnon-gn8ih]

@@synaesthesia888 Nobody is talking about that; we're talking about unaliving people who are committing disgusting abuses of power and violating peoples' rights, and that is _why_ those people aren't liked.

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

@synaesthesia888 its not like anything else will stop people with so much money and power

[@gregorybiestek3431]

@@mythicalskeleton1546 LOL!!! you realize that the new USA administration is perfectly fine with VISA doing this as long as it is a USA company. The same as Tik-Tok is bad unless it is owned by an American, then whatever it does is great. After all, VISA is owned by Blackrock, Vanguard, and Bank of America.

[@Astrotripper2000]

I'm glad there's an alternattive cashless payment system in my coutry. I can actually boycott those companies, sometthing that's impossible in Japan and many, if not most western countries. I've switched almost completely to the alternative available in my country and only use Visa/MC when no other option is possible (really only applies to foreign companies). What Japan is seeing is the result of giving up control over critical infrastructure to a foreign entity. This NEVER ends well. Does not matter if it's a flow of money or gas you gave control away, you just gave foreign interests a huge lever over your country's social and political landscape.

[@jeffzebert4982]

Transporter beam technology needs to be invented YESTERDAY! With transporter beam technology, each of us could have a small transporter that we could use to beam cash over the Internet.

[@takatamiyagawa5688]

Don't they have JCB in place of Visa and Mastercard within Japan?

[@Astrotripper2000]

@@takatamiyagawa5688 Yeah, looks like JCB and AMEX are working alternatives (at east in some cases we heard of). But from what I read, they are much less popular and might simply not be enough to keep the service alive. Perhaps increased awareness of those issues will make them more popular and Visa/MC will start loosing market share, but that sounds like a stretch. Anyway, just speculating.

[@___-___-___-___-]

corporations should give up on visa instead of accepting being stuck in a terrible exclusive contract with them. I will gladly give up using visa to work around censorship. and I sincerely hope that visa and mastercard experience losses.

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

Looks like 1 ceo was not enough to tell them they shouldn't keep abusing their power

[@Silvercomet251]

Yeah. Welp get the anbu together.

[@17th_Colossus]

LF Mario

[@arthurblizzardxd2985]

Any volunteers?

[@JoeLikesBlue]

Chibi thinks this is just about money. This is a naive belief, if they actually just cared about making money they would allow as many sites as legally possible to use their services. This is ideological.

[@novusparadium9430]

That's even fucking worse, Imagine letting a government or private company tell you what to think or what you should enjoy fucking dystopia level shit.

[@A_itsar]

This is why monopolies shouldn't exist

[@yalo3162]

Everything makes so much sense now. Cover it all up with drama about censorship, while trying to squeeze money out of a foreign nation.

[@UNGGodYT]

As they say, greed is the root of all evil.

[@RawrfireXD]

Japan really said “Go forth and multiply.”

[@zaltajobratil3589]

This is terrible! My weeb brothers and sisters and people of culture, rise up against this injustice!

[@olyviermonteau4300]

japan actually threatened visa recently and it worked so it's all good, also visa anyways is on crackdown so they should watch their step to begin with the current hliday.

[@enrique9925]

Pretty much Visa and Mastercard want to decide who has free speech and who don't

[@Péter--2222]

I'm a simple person, I don't like bankers.

[@kingnewcomer2029]

This is basically modern Eugene Krabs, becoming beyond greedy, and treating real people like pawns (just like in many, if not most SpongeBob SquarePants Episodes for nearly 20 years now). That's just sad. Again, NO company should EVER tell a country how to run their economy!

[@agentofsocialmediachaos6712]

There needs to be laws to punish these payment processors for this type of behavior

[@keikamisato]

We need our own Luigi Mangione for this. This shit gotta stop man, we can't and shouldn't let these Credit card companies get away with this.

[@darkjelly944]

I understand where you're coming from, but we still shouldn't openly wish death upon people we don't like. You have every right and reason to feel that way with how much Japan has lost this month alone, and you in your rights to verbalize your frustration, but death threats are the kind of thing the people advocating for censorship do. Let's not stoop to their level please.

[@adventuresteamstudios242]

I say this everytime to Japan, for such a small tough country, you're all soft.

[@jamesmetcalf5597]

I agree 💯 this whole thing is the equivalent to them just curling up into the fetel position and just allowing their own freedom through artistic expression to be taken away from them, it's pathetic especially for a country that is supposed to be deadly serious when it comes to others respecting its culture.

[@jase276]

If only everyone was like Hayao Miyazaki

[@phoenixx5092]

They only backtracked when an important political party threatened to pass a heavy financial services regulation bill to criminalise visa's conduct

[@EmpReb]

Look up operation Choke point. This all started from that.

[@17th_Colossus]

Arigatou Obama...

[@Silvercomet251]

So the first great manga war is about to begin. Time to go on my training arc.

[@jeffzebert4982]

All part of the transition into a Neo-Victorian Age, unfortunately... with all of the extreme sexual repression that entails.

[@natoriousthehopeful2786]

So there's nothing the Japanese government can do? This sucks... 😢

[@Dark-God]

they can implement laws to force these companies to stop refusing services for non Illegal transactions, in fact, the only reason the Otaku Matchmaking Dating Site recovered, was because they threatened Visa with the creation of new laws to regulate them.

[@hatoru17]

​@@Dark-Godthey should do it anyway. Visa/Mastercard are hurting their businesses. They need to take immediate action against these scumbags

[@derrickmiles5240]

What happened to tar? What happened to feather? Let us bring back the old justice.

[@hatoru17]

@@Dark-God they should do it anyway. Visa/Mastercard are hurting their businesses. They need to take immediate action against them.

[@hatoru17]

@@Dark-God they still should implement the law regardless. Japan needs to defend itself against actions like this.

[@4.0.4]

Countries should put the screws to these global monopolies. Visa and Mastercard should have no say in what content is "kosher" to them.

[@soulburner6405]

Do Japan have their own card companies?

[@knowledgeseeker4614]

I was wondering the same thing. They should.

[@hatoru17]

They have JCB, but the payment processors have influence over it because it's connected to the Discovery Network so they can force them to deny service as well.

[@Blade501_]

They do. But that card company is mostly japanese. if you learn the language we can all do it. hell we can have english-japanese banks just to boycott Visa and MasterCard. The only tibit is this, we must respect their culture or any japanese related stuff. They are no joking matter.

[@Taurean_SAMA]

Swift system has a big influence. Which is why some big countries want to move away from that, go figure.

[@17th_Colossus]

​@@hatoru17 "JCB cards are accepted in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada through our partnership with American Express International, Inc., and in the U.S. through Discover Network." I assume this means JCB is not tied to the Discover Network within Japan, so at least that's good for Japanese customers, and the affected Japanese businesses.

[@alphazero4880]

Censorship sucks. Understandable when it needs censorship on some stuff when it’s on TV. But damn dude. Seriously…

[@jase276]

Censorship is literally never needed.

[@zacharyscovel1017]

Greed, the root of all evil, creator of degradation.

[@flexjohnson18]

Who is visa to tell Japan what to do with this dating app for example?

[@StoneCBears]

The Fight continues

[@shineek]

What fight, Japan is just bending over and saying please harder. They do so for years.

[@axx012]

There is a manga called Candy and Cigarettes that I am reading. Long story short and evolves a elderly man and a 10 to 12-year-old girl going around killing crime organization members. She herself is the main one doing the killing it's actually a good read but no way in heck especially since this censorship crackdown do I expect an anime from it. It seems that the author is around the same time period as Black lagoon. In other words the lack of citizenship when it comes the killing and the fact that a 12-year-old girl is the one doing it it just seems like both authors may be around from the same generation with that sort of lack of a censorship

[@adn8739]

The best way to tackle this in my opinion is to adopt new payment gateways, and I think that's where india can help with it, because over here we heavily use UPI system that works with your local banks and makes it way easier for transaction through your mobile. It eliminates the need for any card. If this is adopted I think this problem can be solved easily. But the problem is japan itself because they might not be open to adopt new tech because the preferred way of traditional methods.

[@privateeyety5735]

Money and censorship. Wild things these companies are doing

[@Swordsmaster]

I hope this can be resolved and stopped soon because...there are some sites where I can still purchase things and I do not want to lose access to being able to buy stuff from Japan anymore. 😓

[@JCWinters-bu8de]

There’s actually hope. Japan is adding protections against these card companies’ misdeeds and are likely to make VISA and Mastercard reconsider… Hopefully this will also get Ebay back the way it was because they removed many Japan Imported merch from their site BECAUSE of VISA and Mastercard.

[@ianswinford5570]

Same!

[@Haiyami]

I am problem going to to be picking up an American express card and then a JCB card for Japanese sites only. I'm done with Mastercard and Visa. I can't trust them after this. Though after I switch credit cards, I'll still have to keep open my current credit card for 5 years but not use it because if I shut down my current credit card for a new credit card account with American Express or JCB, my credit score tanks.

[@JCWinters-bu8de]

@Haiyami. There’s something you might want to know about AMEX too: They, VISA and Mastercard are all affiliated with a corrupt company called BRIDGE who are pushing for all this censorship with a shared agenda (DEI, W0ke, ESB, Monetary gain, and LGBTQ activism). American Express has been a bit quieter about this, but check to make sure that they’re also not going to deny you their service as well if you need to use it for purchasing goods from Japan… 👍

[@soukenmarufwt5224]

Use hard cash like a boomer like me :) I don't care if it's inconvenient. Convenience lead to complaincency. Where I live no one uses Visa beyond travel. Everything else is hard cash or in country banks who can care less of a damn on what you spend

[@JonJon-wc6pj]

And yet this company didn't address the use of their service to the AI nudity sites that are rising right now.

[@Twilightiger96]

*_-Things will get worse before they get better..._* I'm just hoping there's some truth in those words.

[@lan-kun-officialchannel8285]

No wonder I can’t support artists on Fanbox…

[@karrock8023]

While this is depressing to see, I don't feel like this is going to be the end just yet. Apparently Visa has resume service to the otaku dating game but they still haven't given a reason as to why that mess happened in the first place but it's comforting they resume service for now.

[@АртемХомяков-й4п]

Source that they resumed?

[@karrock8023]

@@АртемХомяков-й4п I could post it but KZbin has been weird and deleting my comments

[@hex_2384]

This should not even be allowed. There has to be a way to put these card companies in their place permanently

[@gerthddyn]

I don't think you are correct. I think it is actual censorship. If it was blanket and the prices just went up, but places like Fantia have completely lost their ability to use Visa/Mastercard. The work on it is no worse than Fansly or in many cases Patreon, but it is focused to Japanese users. If it was just a higher fee, they would pass that on to users of the site, but they can't get any payment processors. It is all part of DEI.

[@ippoverse]

Piracy is about to get a whole lot more popular

[@mouhou9795]

Dude if a game isn't on steam 出来ない people don't pay anyway. People just download the shitty fan TL that crashes a 1/3 of the time. And with anime people watch it on like hanime or whatever if it isn't on netflix.

[@Sgt_SealCluber]

Just like Water and Power, time to make payment processors a "utility". If you operate in a country you must process payments for ALL legal goods and/or services, otherwise don't operate in that country.

[@EvanmarleyDixon]

All companies should cair about 3 things. 1. Money, 2. Products quality, 3. Customer satisfaction. These days, all big companies cair about is the money. Its like that meem where a perant is playing with their kid in a pool, they don't spot their other kid struggle, & theirs a skeliton at the bottom of the pool.

[@MWhaleK]

This will lose them money.

[@TakaChan569]

All this over an otaku matchmaking site...wtf timeline are we living in and can it be over already.

[@ahmuadparks9248]

I’m sorry, but making it censored it’s not gonna stop birth away from going low. We people actually enjoy uncensored because we want to escape reality from real relationships. That’s are struggle. And uncensored shit makes us go to a happy place to forget about relationships

[@njoguszn]

real asf, anime yiddies on top

[@infinitykiyen6270]

I hold Visa stock and got their investors report... I will say here they TRY to woo investors eye too... Like ever since their stockk grow is VERY slow for good reason! Since investors are people smarter than average. They would see that BS when they open up "Did Visa censor anything or harm competition?" Japan will pop up... This is like Nijisanji response... Sorry Visa you lying...

[@dra6o0n]

Remember that behind every financial institution is a shareholder's demand.

[@17th_Colossus]

Japan needs to enact laws that protect payment processors like Visa from maliciously manipulating the system in this way. More people need to be made aware of this, ASAP.

[@kuronoch.1441]

This is not Eugene Krabs, they aren't in it for more money. This is more like Lex Luthor, intentionally sacrificing money for more political power.

[@argonautstarking6377]

Anime and Manga won’t lose

[@derrickmiles5240]

This is the folly of reducing our moral considerations to the letter of the law. Tar. Feather.

[@ippatsu9]

I think it is even worse. they can manipulate the stock market and the value of businesses and what who succeeds and who will lose.

[@CircuitReborn]

Seriously they should just thresten to ban Visa in japan entirely. That will make Visa stop.

[@MilanoBosman-uk6zp]

This is why money is the source of all corruption

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

You mean power. Power is the source of all corruption, it's why big government are always the most corrupt and to some extent money is power, but in this case it's corporations who practically have a monopoly, trying to culturally colonise a foreign nation.

[@LuigiTheMetal64]

Only nature will end the corrupt.

[@makotonarukami7468]

I said it once and I'll say it again everyone needs to sort out their top 100 anime archive them on a hard drive and you'll be good to go

[@faa1412]

Unfortunately with the New Administration, the DOJ will probably stop the anti-trust lawsuit against Visa. Every new administration brings in their own DOJ members, and Trump's will probably dismantle that lawsuit. The article should have mentioned or referenced how this lawsuit could play out with the new Administration.

[@toddwall5346]

Don't trust too much about Trump he wanted a trade war around the world. also he don't care about your poor life only care about rich and you not rich 😮

[@FourFourSeven]

Does anyone remember WHY AT&T was broken up?

[@EadTaes]

Japan should come up with their own credit card. I would get one.

[@17th_Colossus]

JCB

[@broden4838]

I'm just waiting for the moment for these corrupt people to be begging for mercy (in which we know they don't deserve it for their actions)

[@darthmorgoththesecond9990]

This is just the beginning

[@221gunslinger]

Welp, my world view just changed.

[@Kerath]

We're gonna have to smuggle uncensored Manga and Anime in our lifetime.

[@nozoamercenarypassingby8937]

That title! Nooooooo

[@mythicalskeleton1546]

God i hate the west

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

I love the West, I absolutely loathe and completely dehumanise Western leftists. (Tbh leftists everywhere, but the West is the worst right now)

[@StupidAnon-gn8ih]

@@TearThatRedFlagDown Just what do you love about the West? The only good thing to ever come out of the West was the founding fathers' ideas about how a republic should be ran, and those lasted all of about 60 years.

[@realfuzzybee13]

Agreed

[@glasseyemarduke3746]

When refering to a graph or chart and such please either zoom out, move the referenced item or yourself when the part you are referring to is behind yourself. Thanks

[@callibor3119]

If Japan wants to get around this very issue, they would have to break language barriers to get around censorship at this level. And, also, get more people from Japan to move from one nation to another to get more people to speak Japanese and learn other languages and then get more people from other nations to come to Japan and get stuff out of Japan and into other nations.

[@hoppy8008]

They're screwed on that front, a lot of Japanese either don't want to, are too busy, or too lazy to learn English (or another language such as German or Spanish. It doesn't help that English learning in primary to high school sucks outside of some private schools.

[@Haiyami]

That's a nice thought but it's a pipe dream. As people go to Japan from foreign countries, there will always be a group of powerful individuals that go into a country to act as foreign entity to put a stranglehold and control another country's culture and economy with malicious intent. I like the idea but it can't just end there. Having more Japanese go outside the country to get a better handle on English and other languages and also a heavier vetting system for foreign entities that enter Japan to prevent getting fucked over from companies like Mastercard and VISA. The best right now is Japan putting strict laws that prohibit foreign credit card agencies and the like from acting with impunity.

[@callibor3119]

@@hoppy8008 When times are desperate anything can be a better change than death.

[@callibor3119]

@@Haiyami The US is already trying file antitrust onto these companies, but that is only just of their many problems and a lot of ours. When times for us are very desperate, we have to put our minds together and speak amongst communities in different languages in hopes that other communities can make a change that will get governments to agree with. Democracies are powered by the will of the people.

[@NANA.PANPAN]

They should just pay with Suica

[@karajkot6735]

Royalmtls got shut down by seven seas 😭. They translated Classroom of the elite Light novels. And now we are doomed.

[@MrGabyGaming]

Also youtube as of late added way too many ads(not the ones added when you watch a video but on the side) and its trying to block all people that use adblockers as well. The online content overall and anime will drop a lot if they continue like this.

[@CottonModem]

1:52 It may be worth your while looking into how to pronounce Japanese words and names like "Abe".

[@stevenedwards8353]

Fine, I'll say it. Where is the Luigi Mangione for bankers like this?

[@linktheslayer1572]

How many times can it get worse

[@hyperkaioken4982]

this stuff should be illegal

[@BloodrealmX]

It is illegal, but they control all the money in the world so nobody will enforce the laws on them.

[@maxwell2490]

I love how, Japan love to self sabotage itself and asks " why aren't you paying us money?! "

[@AstronScion]

Japan won't take this down

[@Cosmic_Espeon]

I’m so tired of Visa telling me where I can spend my money.

[@maxwell2490]

" We are " start's Playing in the background

[@DakkaScrappa]

Visa needs to be investigated report their corporation to the DOJ then we'll see if they can scapegoat their way out of that

[@dstroy.]

it just keeps getting worse.

[@thearchlich7273]

I disagree. That may be part of it, but there is definietly a discrimination factor to it. When they closed the dating sites it is clear, that whether money is involverd or not, they also support the "final solution of the Otaku question". This is litteraly fascism - using the corporate power to discriminate minorities. That is like litterqaly the definition of fascism.

[@malicious842]

"it's not about censorship" yes, this is racism

[@TearThatRedFlagDown]

It's censorship, racism and Western leftists trying to culturally colonise a foreign nation. When the left does these things so consistently, I think it's very obvious that they aren't good people, never were and never will be.

[@saadhero9107]

Just when i think it can't get worse. Some serious backlash is needed or the world will be controlled by corps.

[@JonborgVA]

oh no....

[@KyuketsukiRei]

Excellent video Chibi

[@oriongear2499]

The Card Companies have nothing to gain from going after specific countries and cultures.

[@Soren59]

Where's Mario when you need him man

[@Seth378]

Japanese government have to work with their own card company for the payment, if the current company have language barrier due to it being mainly in japanese language, then they just have to translate to english at least. They can hire foreign talent call centre to support any english speaking question. May sound a hassle but this is to protect their culture and economy. Let the world know that Visa and even Mastercard doing such despicable things, have a transition period where people can start to use japan payment method. Everyone will eventually understand that everything become so complicated is because of Visa, even Mastercard. I am sure since many people love Japan and it's culture, those that really want to support will use japanese payment method.