@@kristopherwillis8075 Censorship is proven to kill people. Rachael Lillis was a censor victim, and died when she knows the characters by their Japanese source names.
Visa are illegally abusing their power against censoring anime and manga and it should be illegal for censoring, anime, and manga because they need to fight against visa for their legal abuse of power is unconstitutional in japan 🇯🇵
@@quayzar_escabar Liberals have been telling you that companies are not to be trusted and need to be regulated for decades now. The MAGA crowd voted for this. For censorship and pro-monopolies.
@@quayzar_escabar I mean it's not really a conspiracy, that's litterally the end result of capitalism. If you open everything up to the market and put as little rules and regulations as possible as to who can do what and how in this environment under the guise of "it's stifling innovation" or some other bs like that, than what do you think'll happen. That's how monopolies form in the first place (the amount of stuff for instance that coke owns is insane, like I went to Cambodia a couple of years ago, and a local water bottle company was even owned by them). And the sad thing is, it's totally legal. But even then, you can try and regulate this stuff all you want, but in an evironment where companies and single individuals like Musk and other billionaires have the wealth equivalent of entire countries, than it becomes easy for them to buy politicans who'll then work overtime to repeal any protection from this type of behavior that exists on the books. It's truly one hellscape of a system
@@noraneko4848 "The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), previously known as Morality in Media and Operation Yorkville, is an American conservative anti-pornography organization.[2][3] The group has also campaigned against sex trafficking, same-sex marriage, sex shops and sex toys, decriminalization of sex work, comprehensive sex education, and various works of literature or visual arts the organization has deemed obscene, profane or indecent. Its current president is Patrick A. Trueman. The organization describes its goal as "exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation".[4]" NCOSE is the organization pushing credit cards and banks to intimidate artists. You're the ones doing this to us.
It's an extension of this old belief anything animated or not pictures of real people must be for children. Which is a belief which has no bearing on reality.
The Phub is also affected by this but not to this degree at least. Remember, these people don't want you or us the "common" people to enjoy anything. They like a Star Trek, villain wants us to eat ze bugs and sleep on a pod and work every day for free
Otaku Spirit just talked about his on his video too, highlighting that Japanese politician Yamada Taro (a member of the Upper House of the Diet) has picked up on this and has asked Visa Japan and Visa HQ to clarify their stance. If Visa Japan doesn't roll back its decision soon, pretty sure Japan Fair Trade Commission is going to be asked to investigate.
Shimoneta has always been a social commentary for Japan's self-censoring nature and blind obedience to higher power. Of course Japan's market bend to VISA.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 Ubisoft is a gaming company that hates games but loves money. Visa is a place that makes and loves money because most credit cards are from that company. This is one battle we cannot win, comrades. Let’s take the L and prepare for the next one
Japan needs to find ways to help us get the manga untouched, otherwise expect things to go south long term. China isn’t going to be a suitable replacement long term.
@@LuigiTheMetal64visa is a money exchange company. Almost everyone uses it or Mastercard. They can't just get rid of them if there isn't any other competition to take over the market.
We truly live in dark times. I am 30 years old I grew up with anime, manga, JRPG's... And to see Japanese media getting censorshiped makes me just sad!
Its not the worst timeline, but its definitely a weird one. Japan can get this "correct", idk how, but there's something there. But for us, idk piracy, maybe?
@@shashwatmishraalumni4918 It's also the fault of the competition for not expand themselves globally (and I know that this is also linked to the people for not choosing them, and choose the big company, and that's one of the main reasons of why they don't grow enought to be competitive), but after this, I bet a lot of consumers will start looking for alternatives, I know I'm one of them, but the key part is in how many countries they operate.
This is way more serious than most people think. This is not about lolis, and not about artistic freedom. This is about setting a principle. A principle whether or not payment processing companies can dictate where your money goes. I'm honestly terrified, and I it think, for the long term future of humanity, this is more important issue than ongoing wars with actual people dying.
Both companies need to be broken up, they have a monopoly, years ago they broke Microsoft up for that very reason. But nowadays these companies are 100x bigger & more dangerous.
If it's their money, fine, limit it however. If it's the customers money, they should have zero say, outside of illegal activity, and even then report it to the authorities, effective or not
It IS about artistic freedom though and how people (Specifically VISA and mastercard) is trying to impose censorship by having hostage our money. THEY ARE MONSTERS.
@@mrconroy4672 Trump is pro-censorship. He is literally funded by evangelical Chrisitians. These same people have banned anime and manga in many schools all over the US already. Not only that but Trump is pro-American companies taking over other country's industries.
@@mrconroy4672 Trump will protect him. You are putting hopes on a man that is backed by book banners lmao. On a man that has billionaires as his inner circle, not blue collar workers. He won't be laughing.... alone. He will be laughing with Trump.
It should be illegal for Visa to be able to have that much power especially in countries where that is the only major card company that can be used between countries
Thats good. I say they should get good lawyer's and start to sew. Unlike American Japan cares about making money. So they would never want ro censore there manga and anime because of these weirdos@KimSamaVideos
As they should. Low on yen is a myth because money is printed. They don't need US money, especially when people claim the US market has no effect on the Japanese market.
It would be good if they could sue them. The problem is: Why they weren't sued until now? Is the argument of monopoly and ability to dictate what people can consume not good enough?
Payment processors don't HAVE a brand image. They provide a payment service and that is it. As long as it isn't illegal, they shouldn't demand ANYTHING from anyone. Evil.
First they fucked movies, then video games and now Anime and Manga. These people need to be dealt with. Swithly and ruthlessly. Considering how popular and big of an audience the Anime/Manga Industry has, I feel like this will backfire spectacularly.
I watch a-nime because it does not come from Nimes, France. The Napoleonic art of vandals and dictators who once feared the printing press. May their African colonies never know peace, didn't earn it.
Western imperialism isn't just guys with guns taking your country through violence, sometimes it's guys in suits pushing their cultural woke values on you.
This is very worrying. Without freedom of expression creativity stagnates and quality drops. This art form is beautiful and it should not be interfered with by people who have no appreciation for it. Thanks for the news.
They want quality to drop. It's hard to make good quality material, good material hurts the sales of bad material, and it's cheaper to make slop than gold. They want everything to be bland mainstream garbage and they want us to buy it constantly with a smile on our faces.
You seem to forget that the new administration is going to full of Evangelicals. Those are very people who wish to censor and ban most of anime & manga.
@@andrewcerberusok You seem to forget that the new administration is going to be full of religious types. Those are very people who wish to censor and ban most of anime & manga.
My unhinged theory is since people are preferring anime and manga to westren media they're trying to censor it so everyone would watch their shitty shows
Pay close attention to the source of malevolent Women Studies coming out of the French Empire. There be the Hell portal of theocracy sending the homewreckers to pillage our nations with cultural blasphemy.
Had this been the Japanese government that told anime and manga companies to "tone it down," I would not have liked it, but it would have been easier to swallow than a random foreign company with no right to put a foot down. Also. How is Visa Japan's CEO not Japanese.
It is also the government why do you think they changed the law funny how all this happens after the death of shinzo Abe almost like the current puppet in control designed this situation too happen Japan is being sold to BlackRock and barely anyone is notecing
Japan cucked to the UN back in 2010, the reason he's white is because VISA HQ chose him specifically as a hatchetman. Just like the Biden admin chose Rahm Emmanuel as their hatchetman to force censorship and pronoun gang nonsense.
At this point, no wonder Japan made their own, JCB. I had no idea until I saw a video of Garnt (Gigguk) mentioning about VISA and MC actually being 'Premium' in Japan, he just has JCB which is Japan's main card type. I think the most effected would be overseas people wanting to purchase directly from Japanese sites, but I'm sure there are people directly in Japan as well that are effected.
Even JCB have pulled out of some companies. They operate through the discover Network so they call the shots. Discover is also part of the board of the bridge initiative so I have a feeling that all of this was enacted by the U.N. Since Japan isn't going to cooperate with their demands willingly, they're using the payment processors to be a discreet way of doing so without the UN looking like they are directly involved.
This is not simply a matter of regulating entertainment; it is a matter of a few wealthy people controlling the flow of information. Books that accuse the wealthy of crimes will not sell because of credit card restrictions. Credit card companies and their shareholders threaten that if information against them is disclosed, they will not be able to make payments on their credit cards, and the companies will remove that information.
@@ianswinford5570 Anime and manga made Japan better. Japan should have never let the gaijin take over any country. Japan almost died in WWII too. History to be remembered to do better. Even Korea and China did evil things before. Japan should never act all shamed at, even by other countries.
Exactly! If I was in charge, I’d make it so these companies could never enforce their financial will on a foreign country simply because they don’t like it at face value.
1. Japan is a US client state post war, they won't do ANYTHING to upset daddy defender US. 2. Otaku are a dying breed, less and less exist due to their birthrate crisis 3. Due to the birthrate crisis these companies need foreigners money to stay alive
It's impossible to stop something that's good from going mainstream. It's happened with everything; comics, video games, and now anime. It's unfortunately the natural cycle of things.
@@TheDkmariolink And I hate it. It scares off people's desire to spread their ideas and innovations across the world to change it for the better, because these fat hyenas (companies) want to get their grubby hands on it and ruin it for filthy lucre, or a loud vocal minority with their own problems will paint you as a villain for even dreaming of the dream, and these guys have a way of deciding for the WHOLE world who are the "bad guys". Sometimes even both.
Yup, I agree. I wish all you little ankle-bitters would hop up off the trend. I was much happier being ostracized in the 90s for shamefully reading manga in dark corners. Y'all easily offended ass-hats ruined it.
French Imperialism. Ubisoft France hosted a whole terrorist cell to shake down game studios. Netflix was banned from France's cinema awards then a french company published Cuties on Netflix. The French Africans from past colonies are immigrating and replacing local English in one big Trojan play. This is how war has always been for centuries now a never ending predatory arrangement.
Our parents and to an extent we wanted convenience over complicated choice and the CC companies were more than happy to oblige. We dug our own graves here.
An oligarchy on a global a scale. This is something I seriously am concerned about because it's so ripe for corruption as we are seeing here. Like censorship is one thing but if they can control this what else could they control if we just let them keep doing this?
@@talkingtakotaco8611 Governments are controlled by them as well, we need a new standard. But el savador is trying to implement things like bitcoin and it doesnt look like its going too well, but they're not as technologically developed as other countries. I feel like if things keep going well for them we could see an actual currency take form that cant be abused by governments, banks and corporations. China knew from the very start not to deal with them though.
@@Nabee_H bitcoin won't work. For one it's a different currency, a volatile one at that, and not a payment processor. And second, it is just impenetrable to the common person. Say what you will about how one might learn, credit cards are just so much simpler to understand, and ironically even then some people still don't understand credit cards. The problem isn't the currency, it's the ability to move money. It doesn't matter if you make a new currency. If you have no way of moving it, it might as well be worth nothing. That's what a payment processor does. It's easy enough to say physically hand your friend $20 but if you need to buy anything internationally and at a stable rate, you need a middle man to do it and introducing a 3rd currency to do it just makes things more complicated, never mind exchange rates between 2 currencies now you need to do a 3rd exchange before you can even buy anything.
They tested this first on people who had the wrong opinions back in the mid to late 2010's with the great adpocalypses. If you had clout and opinions that were a bit too spicy, your payment processors or advertisers would bail on you. Now they're broadening their reach to products they don't like. Welcome to the next phase of social engineering by de-risking.
Visa and Mastercard have tried this with multiple different sites and products...there is ways around it...and they did get hit with some type of antitrust violation...but idk japans laws either...but they should have zero say in what we want to purchase...sets an extremely dangerous precedent..
The current administration filed suit against Visa & Mastercard, but the incoming administration has already pledged to get RID of the lawsuit and allow Visa to operate anyway it wishes.
@@gregorybiestek3431 X to doubt, literally. Elon has been raging on X about credit card companies having too much power and VISA debanked Trumps wife and youngest son.....Stop spreading fake news.
@@bottomtext593 The Biden administration filed the lawsuit, but the new Trump administration has pledged to drop the lawsuit and allow VISA to operate as it wishes. (per business news reports).
I dont get "protecting the brand".. like does anyone think about the company of the card they are using when they buy something? the only time anyone thinks about it is if the company is blocking you from buying something. which is what hurts the brand.
Similar to Internet providers. They facilitate essential infrastructure/service and should have absolutely no business deciding what people use their service for (as long as it's legal). Also, considering there are virtually no alternatives to the few card processors on the market (VISA and MasterCard being the de facto duopoly), there's literally no reason to protect any "brand", because in many cases where are people gonna go? The only rational conclusion, they're not protecting anything, just abusing their market dominance, any other conclusion is due to conflict of interests or sheer stupidty.
I wish it was but it is the right of the card company to refuse service if they hate what it is going towards. It doesn't matter if they are the only major card company they can somehow do it
@@mythicalskeleton1546 if their the only major card company and they are using that to their advantage to control the market to their way than that makes them a monopoly which is illeagal
@@mythicalskeleton1546 well, I'm pretty sure it's illegal. When businesses start colluding and all of them all at once, start pulling away, that's illegal, especially if proven , which mostly easily can
The Japanese government has already entertained the idea of imposing tighter regulations of credit card companies. What VISA is doing is very illetgal in Japan.
No. He's the exact opposite of Shido. Shido was an extreme nationalistic Japanese tyrant. This guy is an extreme globalist anti-Japanese European tyrant.
No. He's the exact opposite of Shido. Shido was an extreme nationalistic Japanese tyrant. This guy is an extreme globalist anti-Japanese European tyrant.
@@jase276 Y'know.....There's a little thing called "customers". If everyone protested in unison by cancelling their Visa cards, and not giving their company a cent of their money until they BACKED OFF on practices like this, they'd have two choices: Back off, or go bust!
I had a feeling this was the case. We've seen before, that these cardholders don't want to be associated, but then get angry when we want to make our own thing.
I'd get bullied, but I wouldn't be against voting for a private option for these companies if their brand image is a concern. Collaboration is far better than competing, in my opinion.
I have been ahead of time regarding this fear ever since 2012 because I know Westerners love to control others. Just by looking at how Western fans criticize anime storylines, it is a clear sign to me of how they want to rewrite Japanese culture to fit their style since they despise what they don't understand.
I have been ahead of time regarding this fear ever since 2012 because I know Westerners love to control others. Just by looking at how Western fans criticize anime storylines, it is a clear sign to me of how they want to rewrite Japanese culture to fit their style since they despise what they don't understand.
It´s near impossible it´s a centralized transaction switft paymment newtwork. Fortunately Japan knows how to use Crypto networks like BRC-20 (bitcoin) and Litecoin network SH-256 and even the memecoin doggecoin has utilitty to bypass this.since 2011 they know how to use those and are working on accelerate on this alternatives to say bye bye forever to visa and mastercard.
Brand protection is nonsense for a company with a virtual monopoly. This has personally caused massive damage to their brand image for me, but I will not stop using their products because I don't have a choice. My bank only issues Visa cards. No matter how much I despise their acts, no matter how dirty their brand image becomes, I will still use it. Because the alternative is never engaging in online commerce and having to physically go to the bank and withdraw money for everything. An option that isn't even available to me for another several months because I live abroad and my bank doesn't have a branch here. These are the actions of a monopoly. Break them up.
There is no brand risk for VISA or MasterCard. Most people legit only sees both as tools to use to purchase their goods. Where exactly are these companies basis to believe this?
@varnix1006 They shouldn't even have an agenda, but sadly here we are. I don't understand how a moral high ground can even be made here when even US media has a lot of questionable stuff. It's just not talked about as much.
They should not be regulating what another company is doing, whatever another merchant is selling has nothing to do with visa or Master cards image. There needs to be another card processing company
A card company trying to restrict what people can make based on personal morals is no longer fulfilling the job that they're supposed to be. This is far, far overreaching what they should be doing. It's time to start shopping for a new credit card company.
you know, the people in Japan need to stand up for themselves, and not letting Visa Master Cards to constantly bully them into submission, Visa has no right to bully the Manga Community like this, honestly, this constant harassment needs to stop, permanently!, why isn't there anyone protesting against these oppressors?
@@pauljordan0203 The geisha should also fight back. I have heard they slap at rude people. I will bow to the geisha when they knock a camera away from a pervert.
Unfortunately otaku culture is dying, due to birthrate issues, and the average Japanese citizen isn't an otaku so this doesn't affect them at all...Yet.
Brand? Who keeps track of the brand quality and image of payment processors? Who looks at a them and thinks “I won’t use them because other people can use them to buy and support things I wouldn’t.”?
If they succesfully attacks anime/manga media-basis, I bet there will be an explosion of free manga/novel indie content on internet. Or heck, even indie animes with simpler animation. This would be a great middle finger to the corruption of the industry, like it is already happening with the woke games not selling at all.
Their Ai trash will be a part of that indie content. Its a counterfeit operation just like every evil to ever exist. You take the good out, and put the bad in.
Don't Underestimate Japan Just because the powers that be will try to change what they put out Japan WON'T be squeezed there ways and there culture are set in stone and more powerful than currency Even if visa do this Japan will find another route to get there anime content out there without over cencership of this i have complete faith
Did you miss the part where Sony owns Crunchyroll, Aniplex, Funimation, etc. Did you miss the part where any and every American operated localization team has been censoring Japanese media for the last few decades? How exactly do you think they can't suppress it when that's exactly what they've been doing full force for the last 6 years?
This would cause so many types of mangas to get axes.... This explains alot, mangas that have any theme similar to berserk suddenly discontinued because the revenue for this type of mangas are getting strangled by foreigners....
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Wrong timeline we in
Facts 🤦🏿♂️ censorship is never good.
Agreed. I feel like I’m in the anime “Shimoneta”. Pretty sure the author was onto something here.
@@kristopherwillis8075 Censorship is proven to kill people. Rachael Lillis was a censor victim, and died when she knows the characters by their Japanese source names.
Visa are illegally abusing their power against censoring anime and manga and it should be illegal for censoring, anime, and manga because they need to fight against visa for their legal abuse of power is unconstitutional in japan 🇯🇵
Nah this is actually the timeline we gets to see the one piece...
They'll still claim it's a conspiracy theory even as they admit it.
Now you know just how the Maga crowd feels lol welcome friend😆🥳
>it's not happening
>It's just right-wing conspiracy
>It's happening
>It's happening and it's a good thing
>Repeat
@@quayzar_escabar Liberals have been telling you that companies are not to be trusted and need to be regulated for decades now.
The MAGA crowd voted for this.
For censorship and pro-monopolies.
@@quayzar_escabar I mean it's not really a conspiracy, that's litterally the end result of capitalism. If you open everything up to the market and put as little rules and regulations as possible as to who can do what and how in this environment under the guise of "it's stifling innovation" or some other bs like that, than what do you think'll happen. That's how monopolies form in the first place (the amount of stuff for instance that coke owns is insane, like I went to Cambodia a couple of years ago, and a local water bottle company was even owned by them). And the sad thing is, it's totally legal. But even then, you can try and regulate this stuff all you want, but in an evironment where companies and single individuals like Musk and other billionaires have the wealth equivalent of entire countries, than it becomes easy for them to buy politicans who'll then work overtime to repeal any protection from this type of behavior that exists on the books. It's truly one hellscape of a system
@@noraneko4848 "The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), previously known as Morality in Media and Operation Yorkville, is an American conservative anti-pornography organization.[2][3] The group has also campaigned against sex trafficking, same-sex marriage, sex shops and sex toys, decriminalization of sex work, comprehensive sex education, and various works of literature or visual arts the organization has deemed obscene, profane or indecent. Its current president is Patrick A. Trueman. The organization describes its goal as "exposing the links between all forms of sexual exploitation".[4]"
NCOSE is the organization pushing credit cards and banks to intimidate artists. You're the ones doing this to us.
I think it's time for Visa and MasterCard to both be dismantled, piece by piece.
Not with the incoming administration.
@@proy3So what did the current administration do that was good for us? You’re a lost cause.
Good luck with that peasant
Guess who own major stocks in both?
@@ZackSNetwork they did nothing for one they are old and probably don't know what manga is and way at the bottom as far as priority
What about pornography websites, they still accept Visa and Mastercard. This is just double standard
It's an extension of this old belief anything animated or not pictures of real people must be for children. Which is a belief which has no bearing on reality.
Pornography of real people is filled with underage trafficking and money laundering.
Of course they're not gonna let go of that shig
@@talkingtakotaco8611 reminds me of a nsfw animator that has his stuff marked for "RUclips Kids" just because its animated.
You didn't hear about the PHub and Mastercard debacle, did you
The Phub is also affected by this but not to this degree at least. Remember, these people don't want you or us the "common" people to enjoy anything. They like a Star Trek, villain wants us to eat ze bugs and sleep on a pod and work every day for free
Otaku Spirit just talked about his on his video too, highlighting that Japanese politician Yamada Taro (a member of the Upper House of the Diet) has picked up on this and has asked Visa Japan and Visa HQ to clarify their stance. If Visa Japan doesn't roll back its decision soon, pretty sure Japan Fair Trade Commission is going to be asked to investigate.
Based politician right there, hopefully Yamada sets the japan fair trade commission on Visa and gives them what for.
Finally! Some good news! They need to ban them just like India banned them.
Wow, pretty rare to hear of a politician protecting consumers.
Based
@@TakumiJoyconBoyz He's pro manga/anime
Should be illegal for credit card companies to do this
It IS.
We're truly living in the Shimoneta timeline. It tried to warn us all.
Kyoto Animation too is a sellout anime studio. Yes, it is worse than the Endless Eight since censorship is happening in real life.
I bet the author is saying “I was right”.
Shimoneta has always been a social commentary for Japan's self-censoring nature and blind obedience to higher power. Of course Japan's market bend to VISA.
What does KyoAni have to do with the Visa debacle?
@@LouisIXLeGrandDieudonne-pb4dj They never care about their customers. That is why.
Japan needs to get rid of all these Censorship dictatorship collective
If Japan is against the one-legged torii by Ubisoft, Japan can ban VISA too.
@@LuigiTheMetal64
Ubisoft is a gaming company that hates games but loves money.
Visa is a place that makes and loves money because most credit cards are from that company.
This is one battle we cannot win, comrades. Let’s take the L and prepare for the next one
Japan needs to find ways to help us get the manga untouched, otherwise expect things to go south long term. China isn’t going to be a suitable replacement long term.
@@LuigiTheMetal64visa is a money exchange company. Almost everyone uses it or Mastercard. They can't just get rid of them if there isn't any other competition to take over the market.
They need to get a payment processing service that listens to Japan since they can't just ban VISA.
We truly live in dark times. I am 30 years old I grew up with anime, manga, JRPG's... And to see Japanese media getting censorshiped makes me just sad!
Wish we could turn bck the clock 10 year sometimes cause of how things are now
All I can hope for is either Trump putting a stop to this or the Rapture occurs soon.
@acemaison2834 If you think that, then the thinking is just one noted with no nuance to it
@@acemaison2834 I absolutely agree, I feel like we have stepped into an alternative universe, can the world go this crazy in just 10 years?
Its not the worst timeline, but its definitely a weird one. Japan can get this "correct", idk how, but there's something there. But for us, idk piracy, maybe?
So why are they allowing visa and MasterCard for Only Fans if they're concerned about brand image?
Blackrock and Vanguard are stakeholders in OF.
@@Alpha-Omega-TFOAit's not their fault
Its your fault that u are relying on just one card company to make all payments
You know the "Nose People" from Blackrock and Vanguard?
@@shashwatmishraalumni4918 It's also the fault of the competition for not expand themselves globally (and I know that this is also linked to the people for not choosing them, and choose the big company, and that's one of the main reasons of why they don't grow enought to be competitive), but after this, I bet a lot of consumers will start looking for alternatives, I know I'm one of them, but the key part is in how many countries they operate.
@@shashwatmishraalumni4918 ALL manjor cards in the US have done this. Master card, Visa, Discover and JCB.
This is way more serious than most people think. This is not about lolis, and not about artistic freedom. This is about setting a principle. A principle whether or not payment processing companies can dictate where your money goes.
I'm honestly terrified, and I it think, for the long term future of humanity, this is more important issue than ongoing wars with actual people dying.
Both companies need to be broken up, they have a monopoly, years ago they broke Microsoft up for that very reason. But nowadays these companies are 100x bigger & more dangerous.
This is the reason why Bit coin born to have a way to be free from those evil c0rps.
If it's their money, fine, limit it however. If it's the customers money, they should have zero say, outside of illegal activity, and even then report it to the authorities, effective or not
You're entirely correct. War, while terrible, is short lived. A dystopia could last centuries.
It IS about artistic freedom though and how people (Specifically VISA and mastercard) is trying to impose censorship by having hostage our money. THEY ARE MONSTERS.
He admits to brand protection but openly says he bullies people...
He’s pushing back due to how aggressive fans have become.
He thinks you’re a joke and he’s laughing at yall. 😂
He won’t be laughing once Trump begins his term.
They need the lolicons out on the Street to hide their crimes again lol
@@mrconroy4672 Trump is pro-censorship.
He is literally funded by evangelical Chrisitians.
These same people have banned anime and manga in many schools all over the US already.
Not only that but Trump is pro-American companies taking over other country's industries.
@@mrconroy4672 Trump will protect him.
You are putting hopes on a man that is backed by book banners lmao.
On a man that has billionaires as his inner circle, not blue collar workers.
He won't be laughing.... alone. He will be laughing with Trump.
It should be illegal for Visa to be able to have that much power especially in countries where that is the only major card company that can be used between countries
I found out Japan has been investigating Visa since July for violating their anti trust laws
Thats good. I say they should get good lawyer's and start to sew. Unlike American Japan cares about making money. So they would never want ro censore there manga and anime because of these weirdos@KimSamaVideos
@@KimSamaVideosanti trust laws are a joke
Banks own all "democratic" governments.
That's monopoly 101.
Japan could sue for massive damages
As they should. Low on yen is a myth because money is printed. They don't need US money, especially when people claim the US market has no effect on the Japanese market.
I’d support them all the way!
It would be good if they could sue them.
The problem is: Why they weren't sued until now?
Is the argument of monopoly and ability to dictate what people can consume not good enough?
Nah Japan is too nice
They won't because American company and the US government is in bed with CC companies so they WOULD retaliate. Dump the cards, WE can hurt them.
Payment processors don't HAVE a brand image. They provide a payment service and that is it. As long as it isn't illegal, they shouldn't demand ANYTHING from anyone. Evil.
Doesn’t it violate some laws?
Good or decent people will *NEVER SAY* it is "good to bully people".
Only bullies do.
We need to stop being nice.
Reported to the fbi
Leave anime and manga alone you already screwed west movies and Hollywood
They're just the fun police
Fuck..manga is the last hobby I have left.
Ikr, they only destroy anything htey touch
@@Khn_2102 all because they distract from the agenda.
And most games, it's rare that one comes out nowadays that doesn't have woke stuff shoved in it
FUCK CENSORSHIPS!
AMEN!
Amen
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Here, here! 🍻
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Its irony you can buy adult related things by VISA and Mastercard but cannot buy anime/manga
Not quite true. Numerous smex toy and other companies have had Visa and Mastercard put a hard block on items from them being paid using those cards.
First they fucked movies, then video games and now Anime and Manga. These people need to be dealt with. Swithly and ruthlessly. Considering how popular and big of an audience the Anime/Manga Industry has, I feel like this will backfire spectacularly.
I watch a-nime because it does not come from Nimes, France. The Napoleonic art of vandals and dictators who once feared the printing press. May their African colonies never know peace, didn't earn it.
imagine being ok buying porn but when it comes to manga is not allowed crazy world we living in.
they pulled the same shit on pornhub so actually no, because fml
@ there still other sites not just pornhub.
Which is why those sites use other types of transaction
@@hafirenggayuda dont know the others but most likely still use it.
Western imperialism isn't just guys with guns taking your country through violence, sometimes it's guys in suits pushing their cultural woke values on you.
This is very worrying. Without freedom of expression creativity stagnates and quality drops. This art form is beautiful and it should not be interfered with by people who have no appreciation for it. Thanks for the news.
They want quality to drop. It's hard to make good quality material, good material hurts the sales of bad material, and it's cheaper to make slop than gold.
They want everything to be bland mainstream garbage and they want us to buy it constantly with a smile on our faces.
You seem to forget that the new administration is going to full of Evangelicals. Those are very people who wish to censor and ban most of anime & manga.
japan might say fuck it and keep everything lock to their country again
The moment they start dictating what type of art is allowed and which not, will be the death of art itself. 😢
@@andrewcerberusok You seem to forget that the new administration is going to be full of religious types. Those are very people who wish to censor and ban most of anime & manga.
Worldwide boycott of VISA.
That has happened to Bud Light and the Olympics, and worked.
@@LuigiTheMetal64 Nah. VISA is too big too fail. The only way it can be successful is literally crashing world economy.
Don't forget a boycott of MasterCard too.
@@LuigiTheMetal64how so?
@@enforcerridley158 what did Mastercard do? I am curious? Ik what visa did.
My unhinged theory is since people are preferring anime and manga to westren media they're trying to censor it so everyone would watch their shitty shows
That is what's happening. Hollywood is dead
Pay close attention to the source of malevolent Women Studies coming out of the French Empire. There be the Hell portal of theocracy sending the homewreckers to pillage our nations with cultural blasphemy.
I feel like bullying artists and writers through retailers into censorship is pretty damaging to the brand.
Had this been the Japanese government that told anime and manga companies to "tone it down," I would not have liked it, but it would have been easier to swallow than a random foreign company with no right to put a foot down.
Also. How is Visa Japan's CEO not Japanese.
You could say the same about Jim ryan (Previous Playstation ceo)
@hunterofpeace1979 Jim were PlayStation, not Sony as a whole
It is also the government why do you think they changed the law funny how all this happens after the death of shinzo Abe almost like the current puppet in control designed this situation too happen
Japan is being sold to BlackRock and barely anyone is notecing
@@isakwolff5491 Ok. My bad, thought he was the sony ceo.
Japan cucked to the UN back in 2010, the reason he's white is because VISA HQ chose him specifically as a hatchetman. Just like the Biden admin chose Rahm Emmanuel as their hatchetman to force censorship and pronoun gang nonsense.
Lex Luther said superman was not enough
Goku probably next.
How bout justice lord Superman?
How about metro man
Payment processors that have a monopoly on the market.
“My BRaNd!”
I would say " Ha ha ha, no. You DO NOT HAVE MUCH COMPETITION, THEREFORE NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOUR BRAND!
lmao, speak your truth chief!
A late stage capitalist's greed knows no bound.
At this point, no wonder Japan made their own, JCB. I had no idea until I saw a video of Garnt (Gigguk) mentioning about VISA and MC actually being 'Premium' in Japan, he just has JCB which is Japan's main card type. I think the most effected would be overseas people wanting to purchase directly from Japanese sites, but I'm sure there are people directly in Japan as well that are effected.
Even JCB have pulled out of some companies.
They operate through the discover Network so they call the shots. Discover is also part of the board of the bridge initiative so I have a feeling that all of this was enacted by the U.N. Since Japan isn't going to cooperate with their demands willingly, they're using the payment processors to be a discreet way of doing so without the UN looking like they are directly involved.
Isn't it like that in most of the countries ?
Visa and MC are mainly used for international (internet) purchase, the everyday cards are national ones.
@@evanpereira3555JCB is international
@@evanpereira3555yes
This is not simply a matter of regulating entertainment; it is a matter of a few wealthy people controlling the flow of information. Books that accuse the wealthy of crimes will not sell because of credit card restrictions. Credit card companies and their shareholders threaten that if information against them is disclosed, they will not be able to make payments on their credit cards, and the companies will remove that information.
Japan should really grow the balls to do something about it. And the otaku community should back them up.
@@ianswinford5570 Anime and manga made Japan better. Japan should have never let the gaijin take over any country. Japan almost died in WWII too. History to be remembered to do better. Even Korea and China did evil things before. Japan should never act all shamed at, even by other countries.
Exactly! If I was in charge, I’d make it so these companies could never enforce their financial will on a foreign country simply because they don’t like it at face value.
Japan hasn’t the balls to stand up to anybody for years. Just look at the Johnny Somali case they let his ass go after he insulted their culture.
1. Japan is a US client state post war, they won't do ANYTHING to upset daddy defender US.
2. Otaku are a dying breed, less and less exist due to their birthrate crisis
3. Due to the birthrate crisis these companies need foreigners money to stay alive
@@KhanMann66 HALF right, he is a US citizen which complicates the issues and they took his apology at face value.
Anime & Manga going mainstream in North America was a grave mistake.
It's impossible to stop something that's good from going mainstream. It's happened with everything; comics, video games, and now anime. It's unfortunately the natural cycle of things.
Absolutely.
@@TheDkmariolink And I hate it. It scares off people's desire to spread their ideas and innovations across the world to change it for the better, because these fat hyenas (companies) want to get their grubby hands on it and ruin it for filthy lucre, or a loud vocal minority with their own problems will paint you as a villain for even dreaming of the dream, and these guys have a way of deciding for the WHOLE world who are the "bad guys". Sometimes even both.
Yup, I agree. I wish all you little ankle-bitters would hop up off the trend. I was much happier being ostracized in the 90s for shamefully reading manga in dark corners. Y'all easily offended ass-hats ruined it.
we didnt make the normies cringe enough
This is modern imperialism
Yup it is but through business corporations
"cultural imperialism"
French Imperialism. Ubisoft France hosted a whole terrorist cell to shake down game studios. Netflix was banned from France's cinema awards then a french company published Cuties on Netflix. The French Africans from past colonies are immigrating and replacing local English in one big Trojan play. This is how war has always been for centuries now a never ending predatory arrangement.
Big respect to you for covering this, Chibi. More people need to know about it before it's too late
Can’t have anything fun anymore
Unfortunately your right. Censorship has gotten out of control big time.
"A cashless society won't lead to corporations shutting down businesses!"
Dude it's happening right now.
i hate the fact that we live in the world i can't even boycot the brand because there is no alternatives
Our parents and to an extent we wanted convenience over complicated choice and the CC companies were more than happy to oblige. We dug our own graves here.
An oligarchy on a global a scale. This is something I seriously am concerned about because it's so ripe for corruption as we are seeing here. Like censorship is one thing but if they can control this what else could they control if we just let them keep doing this?
@@talkingtakotaco8611 Governments are controlled by them as well, we need a new standard. But el savador is trying to implement things like bitcoin and it doesnt look like its going too well, but they're not as technologically developed as other countries. I feel like if things keep going well for them we could see an actual currency take form that cant be abused by governments, banks and corporations. China knew from the very start not to deal with them though.
@@Nabee_H bitcoin won't work. For one it's a different currency, a volatile one at that, and not a payment processor.
And second, it is just impenetrable to the common person. Say what you will about how one might learn, credit cards are just so much simpler to understand, and ironically even then some people still don't understand credit cards.
The problem isn't the currency, it's the ability to move money. It doesn't matter if you make a new currency. If you have no way of moving it, it might as well be worth nothing. That's what a payment processor does.
It's easy enough to say physically hand your friend $20 but if you need to buy anything internationally and at a stable rate, you need a middle man to do it and introducing a 3rd currency to do it just makes things more complicated, never mind exchange rates between 2 currencies now you need to do a 3rd exchange before you can even buy anything.
Anti-Trust them
Visa has been doing this kind of stuff for years. They have grown so bold that they are admitting it now.
They tested this first on people who had the wrong opinions back in the mid to late 2010's with the great adpocalypses. If you had clout and opinions that were a bit too spicy, your payment processors or advertisers would bail on you. Now they're broadening their reach to products they don't like. Welcome to the next phase of social engineering by de-risking.
Visa and Mastercard have tried this with multiple different sites and products...there is ways around it...and they did get hit with some type of antitrust violation...but idk japans laws either...but they should have zero say in what we want to purchase...sets an extremely dangerous precedent..
The current administration filed suit against Visa & Mastercard, but the incoming administration has already pledged to get RID of the lawsuit and allow Visa to operate anyway it wishes.
@@gregorybiestek3431 X to doubt, literally. Elon has been raging on X about credit card companies having too much power and VISA debanked Trumps wife and youngest son.....Stop spreading fake news.
@@gregorybiestek3431 which administration?
@@bottomtext593 The Biden administration filed the lawsuit, but the new Trump administration has pledged to drop the lawsuit and allow VISA to operate as it wishes. (per business news reports).
@@gregorybiestek3431 Big surprise, they got a saru in there already
He is Lex Luthor! Visa is a disgusting kraken.
So is mastercard leader going to look like kingpin or vandal savage?
@lonelywolf5659 Their Love Child. And Bald! BALD!!!
What the hell is going In the world right now
Madness and depraved stupidity!
Satan
America being power hungry that’s what
Globalist take over of dei and bridge guess who owns major stocks in both visa and Mastercard
Dei and bridge is happening curtacy of BlackRock
I dont get "protecting the brand".. like does anyone think about the company of the card they are using when they buy something? the only time anyone thinks about it is if the company is blocking you from buying something. which is what hurts the brand.
Yeah, simply hurting the brand with this trash
Does he realise that Japan is a cash using society? Typical arrogant US executive.
Bullying and brand protection...
Dont go together unless you you add isnt between them.
Figures he'd look like Lex Luther.
And Jeff Bezos
Shinzo Abe would have never allowed foreign companies to buy up domestic companies. Which is why he had to go.
Same thing is happening in the US. It's supposed to be illegal, at least in the US. Foreign interests should have 0 control over domestic ANYTHING.
Similar to Internet providers. They facilitate essential infrastructure/service and should have absolutely no business deciding what people use their service for (as long as it's legal).
Also, considering there are virtually no alternatives to the few card processors on the market (VISA and MasterCard being the de facto duopoly), there's literally no reason to protect any "brand", because in many cases where are people gonna go? The only rational conclusion, they're not protecting anything, just abusing their market dominance, any other conclusion is due to conflict of interests or sheer stupidty.
Shimoneta literally predicted the future.
Who's protection? What Brand of anime does he/his company own? Insanity!
They'll probably end up saying it's "for the children" lmao.
this is illegal
I wish it was but it is the right of the card company to refuse service if they hate what it is going towards. It doesn't matter if they are the only major card company they can somehow do it
VISA is asking for trouble from Japan and its own customers.
@@mythicalskeleton1546 if their the only major card company and they are using that to their advantage to control the market to their way than that makes them a monopoly which is illeagal
@@derautisadrianos7050are the monopoly laws the same in Japan?
@@mythicalskeleton1546 well, I'm pretty sure it's illegal. When businesses start colluding and all of them all at once, start pulling away, that's illegal, especially if proven , which mostly easily can
The Japanese government has already entertained the idea of imposing tighter regulations of credit card companies. What VISA is doing is very illetgal in Japan.
Taky you. Japan
0:17 He's shido from persona 5
Yeah, I can see that.
He really does.
I think lex Luther fits the role better 😂
Nah, Shido was an extremely nationalistic native Japanese tyrant; this guy is an anti-Japanese globalist European tyrant.
No. He's the exact opposite of Shido. Shido was an extreme nationalistic Japanese tyrant. This guy is an extreme globalist anti-Japanese European tyrant.
No. He's the exact opposite of Shido. Shido was an extreme nationalistic Japanese tyrant. This guy is an extreme globalist anti-Japanese European tyrant.
Onlyfans is more damaging to Visa's brand then anime
Indeed
they control onlyfans so it’s not damaging to them. or at least are stakeholders.
they are not controlling anime so of course it’s “damaging”
NOPE !!
Visa will fuuucking go into bankruptcy.
As they should. Japan should have laid off the opium.
No they wont, unfortunately
Who's going to stop them?
@@jase276 Y'know.....There's a little thing called "customers". If everyone protested in unison by cancelling their Visa cards, and not giving their company a cent of their money until they BACKED OFF on practices like this, they'd have two choices: Back off, or go bust!
I had a feeling this was the case. We've seen before, that these cardholders don't want to be associated, but then get angry when we want to make our own thing.
"Don't like it? Build your own credit card and bank."
I'd get bullied, but I wouldn't be against voting for a private option for these companies if their brand image is a concern. Collaboration is far better than competing, in my opinion.
@@LouisIXLeGrandDieudonne-pb4dj you do know the people that do that. Go missing, right? Especially when they go challenging banks
I remember back when ppl like me were ridiculed for liking anime. At least my anime wasn't screwed over. Anime never should've gone mainstream.
I have been ahead of time regarding this fear ever since 2012 because I know Westerners love to control others. Just by looking at how Western fans criticize anime storylines, it is a clear sign to me of how they want to rewrite Japanese culture to fit their style since they despise what they don't understand.
I have been ahead of time regarding this fear ever since 2012 because I know Westerners love to control others.
Just by looking at how Western fans criticize anime storylines, it is a clear sign to me of how they want to rewrite Japanese culture to fit their style since they despise what they don't understand.
Japan should push back on this bull shit , everyone should push back on this bull shit
They can't. EVERY country's monetary system is tied to the dollar which is tied into these companies. Even BRICS is tied to them.
It´s near impossible it´s a centralized transaction switft paymment newtwork. Fortunately Japan knows how to use Crypto networks like BRC-20 (bitcoin) and Litecoin network SH-256 and even the memecoin doggecoin has utilitty to bypass this.since 2011 they know how to use those and are working on accelerate on this alternatives to say bye bye forever to visa and mastercard.
That’s why in Japan, cash is still king
And this is why monopolies are BAD.
So this guy is the David zaslav of the anime world? Why do we need another one
That man is definitely look like an actual villain arc from a comic book.
Absolutely Vile.. Dude really is a villain..
I'm tired of these cards getting uppity with my money
Brand protection is nonsense for a company with a virtual monopoly. This has personally caused massive damage to their brand image for me, but I will not stop using their products because I don't have a choice. My bank only issues Visa cards. No matter how much I despise their acts, no matter how dirty their brand image becomes, I will still use it. Because the alternative is never engaging in online commerce and having to physically go to the bank and withdraw money for everything. An option that isn't even available to me for another several months because I live abroad and my bank doesn't have a branch here.
These are the actions of a monopoly.
Break them up.
This is 100% illegal.
There is no brand risk for VISA or MasterCard. Most people legit only sees both as tools to use to purchase their goods. Where exactly are these companies basis to believe this?
They're lying, they did it because anime does not align with their agenda.
@varnix1006 They shouldn't even have an agenda, but sadly here we are. I don't understand how a moral high ground can even be made here when even US media has a lot of questionable stuff. It's just not talked about as much.
i genuinely believe this bullshittery is the reason why Kadokawa is genuinely considering being bought by Sony
Who told you kadokawa is considering? They are the ones begging Sony to buy them
Liberty or Deletion. Never concede to merge with losers. Fail as a winner so the legacy might repeat.
This is why we need more of you all involved with investing. They can’t ignore our voices if we’re shareholders.
No point participating in their scams.
@@TheIronTiger44 most of these losers don’t even know how😭🙏
This. Get involved and form an investment block to have some sway.
@@BrigadoomNorth This attitude is why the west is lost.
@@BrigadoomNorth "scam" did you even now how shareholders work?
Unless something is done this is turning into something like a great anime depression the world hasn’t never seen before 💀
You want my manga? You can have it! All you have to do is find another way to buy it.
Felas we need to build another credit card brand, who is with me ?
Stay away from my anime! It's the only pure untouched artform left!
"What could be theoretically done?"
Theodore Kaczynski was wrong, the issue isn't industrialization, but unhinged corporationism.
Does the Love Hina Author know? Maybe something can be done for support so those sites can be free of that infection called Visa.
He pretty lied to Japan. He could have speeches like what Lars Ulrich did. Turns out he smoked that opium.
Fully expect him to change his strategy now that they have admitted to censoring Japanese businesses
Yes he knows and he's been cucked at every corner by VISA, the US government and parts of the Japanese government from doing anything.
He founded manga library z (one of the now closed sites), he's well aware. What baffles me is that JCB also partook in shuttering their services.
Fight with Bitcoin!
Visa needs to listen to lowtiergod
Now ⚡️⚡️
*_summer ant_*
They take Japans politeness as a joke but they should be reminded that Japan can be brutal if decides to act.
Shimoneta tried to warn us….
*Now we have to do our part, and boycott censored content.* Getting the normies to do that is the hard part… 😒
They should not be regulating what another company is doing, whatever another merchant is selling has nothing to do with visa or Master cards image. There needs to be another card processing company
A card company trying to restrict what people can make based on personal morals is no longer fulfilling the job that they're supposed to be. This is far, far overreaching what they should be doing. It's time to start shopping for a new credit card company.
you know, the people in Japan need to stand up for themselves, and not letting Visa Master Cards to constantly bully them into submission, Visa has no right to bully the Manga Community like this, honestly, this constant harassment needs to stop, permanently!, why isn't there anyone protesting against these oppressors?
Because Japan doesn’t care. Japan just wants money like every other country
@@pauljordan0203 The geisha should also fight back. I have heard they slap at rude people. I will bow to the geisha when they knock a camera away from a pervert.
Unfortunately otaku culture is dying, due to birthrate issues, and the average Japanese citizen isn't an otaku so this doesn't affect them at all...Yet.
@@Alpha-Omega-TFOA what does birthrates have to do with this issue?
@ I heard of this. Being an otaku in Japan isn’t a good thing I’ve heard
Visa is not a brand. They are a money transferring company. My bank holds the money and I use the card to transfer it to the seller.
Exactly! 💯
I saw this video in an Asmon Gold stream,good work
They need to be regulated like a utility.
Brand? Who keeps track of the brand quality and image of payment processors? Who looks at a them and thinks “I won’t use them because other people can use them to buy and support things I wouldn’t.”?
If they succesfully attacks anime/manga media-basis, I bet there will be an explosion of free manga/novel indie content on internet. Or heck, even indie animes with simpler animation.
This would be a great middle finger to the corruption of the industry, like it is already happening with the woke games not selling at all.
Their Ai trash will be a part of that indie content. Its a counterfeit operation just like every evil to ever exist. You take the good out, and put the bad in.
Don't Underestimate Japan
Just because the powers that be will try to change what they put out
Japan WON'T be squeezed there ways and there culture are set in stone and more powerful than currency
Even if visa do this Japan will find another route to get there anime content out there without over cencership of this i have complete faith
"Brand protection" my arse. They pick and choose whichever adult content is in line with their agenda and throw the rest under the bus.
Anime is an integral part of Japanese culture. I don't think some woke westerners can suppress it because they want to
They already are, and it's only getting worse every year.
Did you miss the part where Sony owns Crunchyroll, Aniplex, Funimation, etc. Did you miss the part where any and every American operated localization team has been censoring Japanese media for the last few decades? How exactly do you think they can't suppress it when that's exactly what they've been doing full force for the last 6 years?
No project 2025 ban anime
@@ЕвгенийЕрновshut up
That's why we should never stop using physical currency. When all becomes digital is literally over.
True, but kinda hard to do that online.... unless you have crypto
Yeah but how you use cash to buy online on Amazon. How about anti-trust or make our own currency
@LordGalvatronYT Well, there is bitcoin and other cryptocurrency but sadly Amazon doesn't accept it yet..
Say it with me.
BRIDGE.
Honestly he looks like he might be a part of the same tribe as Larry Fink
Not just that. Sesta-Fosta too.
Free speech should never be attacked like this
Good news, he is no longer CEO.
He needs to get Healthcare CEO'd.
Too far! And someone else could just take his place. Anti-Trust them instead
This would cause so many types of mangas to get axes....
This explains alot, mangas that have any theme similar to berserk suddenly discontinued because the revenue for this type of mangas are getting strangled by foreigners....
Visa can be sued to hell for this
All Japan needs to do is create their own payment processing system and get it running
Too lazy probably
So evil!!! These people must be stopped at all costs.
The thing is, all the people in favor of this will be rudely awakened when censorship inevitably comes for the stuff they love.
That must be illegal. Can nobody pull them before a jury?