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NEWS: Niconico's Mature Illustration Service Niconico Shunga to End Service

Cietan Kitney, President of Visa Worldwide Japan, confirmed in December that while Visa wants to make its payment service available to legal and legitimate products and services as much as possible, it may sometimes decline purchases to "protect the brand."

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Cietan Kitney, President of Visa Worldwide Japan, confirmed in December that while Visa wants to make its payment service available to legal and legitimate products and services as much as possible, it may sometimes decline purchases to "protect the brand."

Protect the brand from what? Gooners?

This really does sound like some deliberate effort behind the scenes trying to pressure these companies with $$$ in order to get content they don't like off the internet. Still no idea who is behind this current wave, though.

Bad sign of western centered religious zealotry puritanism affecting global markets.

Bad sign of western centered religious zealotry puritanism affecting global markets.

Pretty much. It's pretty obvious what is happening, but why anybody cares is beyond me. How somebody else uses their credit card is about as far removed from the list of genuine things to worry about as it gets.

Nah, it was decades since the religious groups had this amount of authority over media. Most people calling for end of "Sex Sells" today are ironically antireligious as it comes.

Westerners hate this tend as well which is leading to Corpos massively losing money, and the trend had finally started to collapse in 2024. Hopefully it won't be much long before the corpos return to just selling what sells and stop using Twitter's echo chambers for market research.