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In light of Steam rejecting anime games at random, loli in general being deplatformed,
Playstation removing long running titles from their console (like Senran Kagura),
Nintendo region-locking popular titles to Japan only, fanart featuring anime being arbitrarily removed or the account suspended,
and domains within Japan itself being forced to censor their storefronts,
all by credit card companies pressuring them or their providers, what can realistically be done about money changers
acting as a 2nd government?

What started as ***extreme*** content is now just any anime they do not like and has moved from merely art to video games.



The spoilered image (NSFW) shows on Patreon there is no sense behind what they decide needs to be removed.

Spoiler

http://archive.is/axL3g
http://archive.is/2rF5S

The approval process for getting a [anime] game onto Steam is vague to the point that the same game will not even get the same outcome
when submitted under different editions (although once rejected a game cannot be submitted a second time for approval, which leads to self censorship).

You may have already heard of the panties beneath skirts of ingame characters replaced with a black abyss if you play
recent releases of any anime like games, or the Type 1/Type 2 drivel, which are brought on by self proclaimed experts telling them what the global audience wants.
But if they get away with denying you using your money as you decide to use it on products that are there, this will extend into something much worse. On the vendor side
content that appeals to customers simply won't get made anymore because the people who want to buy it can't or it cannot even be placed for sale.
On the side of this extralegal government it becomes possible to smudge out undesirables from being online, to whatever criteria they decide on.
And worse than that I think AI is being used to automatically label things to which this will doubly become an ideaological tyranny as the models I was able to tinker with
have all had directionated results- things being added to the prompt of their own accord or unavoidable additives.
The only thing worse than the unelected being given power is power given to unelected idiots letting yet another third party [who provides the AI] do the thinking in their stead.



I don't articulate it well but the short version is credit card companies are taking it upon themselves to make things allowed or unallowed ignoring that they are legal,
and trying to circumvent them as a business online, to my knowledge, is impossible. When Mastercard / VISA control online commerce, what can be done to preserve your basic rights on the internet?
The integration of the internet into daily life and communications is such that there is no reason it is not considered an extension of the 1st amendment. There was that successful lawsuit about being blocked from President Trump's tweets on twitter after all.

[The Battlelord]

Because of hypocrisy, freedom is a mere illusion, the world is going in the wrong direction and with all these weird behaviours anyone get offended for anything.

There are wars, but who cares? "We have our own stupid little dramas to think about first"...

Search as anonymous user for any famous name of a young woman and the very first thing you'll see is "SafeSearch" that get in the way, you don't even need to bother to type "bikini, sexy, hot, boobs" or whatever.

If you search any famous name of a man, does not matter the age, i't's all ok, cuz "it's just a man".


Because the future is coming and i guess "Simon Phoeinx" was right: "I'm sorry to say that the world has become a pussy-whipped Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of robed sissies."


Why i did pop up out of blue saying this? It sounds the right topic to talk about this connected stuff and vent some anger about all of this anti-freedom bullshit situation we are living in, unfortunately is not just on the anime and games side, is a bit everything and affect everyone.

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I don't mind and I dislike the trend of everything getting watered down in that manner.


Maybe good things still happen:
A new bill in US congress with around 40 senators introducing it seems to be purposed to removing the ability of financial service providers from engaging in the very behavior I was whining about above.
In the senate S401 and for the house HR987

SEC. 5. PAYMENT CARD NETWORK.
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(B) Prohibition.—No payment card network, including a subsidiary of a payment card network, may, directly or through any agent, processor, or licensed member of the network, by contract, requirement, condition, penalty, or otherwise,
prohibit or inhibit the ability of any person who is in compliance with the law, including section 8 of this Act, to obtain access to services or products of the payment card network because of political or reputational risk considerations.

My understanding is the credit card company can't bullshit you as long as what you are doing is not illegal. But only "politics" and "reputation" are prohibited in the current form. That might allow weaseling with "religion", "morality", and "human rights" or other cop outs.
If any of you American fags value your sovereignty call a representative. If you do bother to call, I suggest strengthening the limitation upon payment processors to only denying transactions when laws are being violated. Giving them any room to wriggle out of
providing their service to their customers makes this law a futility.