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dragontamer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Steam suggests that ‘Payment Processors cited Mastercard Rules’.
Itch.io suggests that Visa specifically sent them a note, but more importantly that Stripe forbids sexual content.
We need to be smarter about this. We cannot just let random Twitter and Reddit outrage memes control us.
Fortunately, Visa and MasterCard have been assholes to a large number of international folks so I’m kinda okay with this? But the controversy this past month on these sexy games is poorly researched in general IMO.
We are seeing big tech (Reddit and Twitter) flex their muscles and see how easy they can attack other companies.
aramova@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Discover is owned by Capital One now, who are arguably on shit stain par with MC/Visa.
dragontamer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Could you explain?
I’ve heard of years of examples of Visa/Mastercard going after the Japanese Doujin market. Never have I heard of anything from Capitol One.
pticrix@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Not to say you’re wrong (I seriously have no clue), but how many people in Japan use Capital One / AmEx tho? They might not put their nose where there’s no volume either. For what it’s worth, AmEx is often not accepted. I wonder if it is the same over there?
dragontamer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Discover has an alliance with JCB, the #1 credit card of Japan.
Discover (mostly) works on JCB, and JCB (mostly) works on Discover terminals in USA.
This means that Discover is a ‘guest’ on Japan’s credit card network. It’s JCB that will have the main say of what is or isn’t allowed in Japanese payments.