Does anyone know why companies like VISA and Mastercard try to distance themselves from NSFW websites? Is it because there is a large group of people that try to punish these companies when they engage with these companies? If not, why would they try to give up money they would otherwise make easily?
Pixiv Blocks Adult Content, but Only for US and UK Users
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#52Does anyone know why companies like VISA and Mastercard try to distance themselves from NSFW websites? Is it because there is a large group of people that try to punish these companies when they engage with these companies? If not, why would they try to give up money they would otherwise make easily?
Mostly: unwanted consumer behavior. Refunds and chargebacks are horrific in certain industries, and it's just not worth it to participate.
Long ago, there was also a principled moralist influence among some board members but the financial world has become so large and purely capital-centric that principles have a hard time fighting the wind, no matter whose they are and what position they stand for.
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Well, they still multipost on Twitter, but AFAICT it's getting unpopular these days. Tough I agree that Pixiv is not as popular as its old days too. By "anti-Americanism", I'm insisting that a good number of Japanese anime artists see the ban as a beneficial feature, not a disadvantage. They would see this as an automated "Sorry, Japanese Only" filter.
unpopular these days Compared to what? Line, or do you have something else in mind?
I don't think there's an outstandingly popular one. Multiposting to get as many audiences as possible is norm these days. Sites like DMM, Fantia or Skeb are strong, but I don't think any of them get the particular traction.
Besides, LINE is extremely unpopular among otaku in Japan (yes, racism).
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#54I don’t get the recent moral fight against adult content. Not just in terms of illustrations or graphical novels as described here, but also other recent developments like identity verification laws for porn, or laws against AI-generated content (like deepfakes). We all have imaginations. People fantasize about their partner, or celebrities, or someone they are interested in. It’s normal. It’s just thought and expres…
There's been wider awareness of how pornography is harmful to boys especially, and also to men. The drive to restrict pornography from children and relegation of pornography to seedier parts of the internet makes complete sense as a response to this.
It’s unfortunate you are being downvoted. Porn is very harmful indeed. I can’t think of any benefit in it being normalised. Maybe the defence of porn is motivated by the fact that other violent forms of expression have already been normalised. But I don’t see how that takes away from the dangers, access to porn presents for significant numbers of young men.
People who express themselves through the creation of panoramic material can find their efforts using crypto anyway.
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#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
unpopular these days Compared to what? Line, or do you have something else in mind?
I don't think there's an outstandingly popular one. Multiposting to get as many audiences as possible is norm these days. Sites like DMM, Fantia or Skeb are strong, but I don't think any of them get the particular traction. Besides, LINE is extremely unpopular among otaku in Japan (yes, racism).
This is rude, but I think the reason its unpopular is otaku often have no friends. Even then, I have found plenty of open chats with otaku. There is exactly one person I know who refuses to use LINE for being owned by Naver. I think the most common reason is not having friends. Racism is probably the next reason.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think there's an outstandingly popular one. Multiposting to get as many audiences as possible is norm these days. Sites like DMM, Fantia or Skeb are strong, but I don't think any of them get the particular traction. Besides, LINE is extremely unpopular among otaku in Japan (yes, racism).
This is rude, but I think the reason its unpopular is otaku often have no friends. Even then, I have found plenty of open chats with otaku. There is exactly one person I know who refuses to use LINE for being owned by Naver. I think the most common reason is not having friends. Racism is probably the next reason.
Proprietary and without e2ee is why I refuse to use it.
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1969-07-20 might be a more memorable date to some people here. 1941-12-07 could be suitable for a Japanese site.
I'm making a snarky allusion to the default date for a blank date field
The default date is 1970-01-01. What does being a day older accomplish?
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm making a snarky allusion to the default date for a blank date field
The default date is 1970-01-01. What does being a day older accomplish?
For those in the western hemisphere, local time zone adjustment means that midnight on 1970-01-01 GMT becomes some time in the afternoon or evening of the day before.
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#60Heh, most commenters here are way off-base IMO, and IMO the real reason is hinted at in the article. Notably, there are categories of adult content that are illegal in the US and UK, but not in Japan. Based on something that very recently happened to someone I know in the UK, I think it is likely that Pixiv was compelled to hand over information on users who were looking at illegal-in-UK stuff. Perhaps Pixiv has gotten tired of doing that.