A warning by Yoko Taro highlights concerns over censorship by payment processors like Visa and Mastercard affecting adult content distribution. The Manga Library Z faced shutdown pressures to modify adult manga content due to these financial institutions. Taro emphasized that controlling payment processing could undermine international free speech. Currently, indie game developers are encountering similar issues on platforms like Steam and itch.io amidst rising censorship efforts and a boycott against credit card companies. A petition calling for an end to these practices has garnered significant support from the community.
"Publishing and similar fields have always faced regulations that go beyond the law, but the fact that a payment processor... can do such things at its own discretion seems... dangerous on a whole new level."
"It implies that by controlling payment processing companies, you can even censor another country's free speech...that endangers democracy itself."
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