Perhaps the only way to challenge this is for everyone to experience the draconian for themselves.
Unfortunately, we said this would happen.
It will only get worse until companies say no, publicly, and show the demands.
The moment a company says “we are cut off because of this despite them servicing others of similar category but regardless- its all legal”
Weird how the banks didnt tell hollywood no over game of thrones, euphoria, or the decades of REAL HARM THE HOLLYWOOD INDUSTRY HAS CAUSED.
Weird how it is purely the non existent- the fiction, that is being regulated.
Today, Japan's pixivFANBOX was forced to suspend the publication of a vast number of works due to intervention by payment service providers.The keyword-based censorship is utterly unreasonable; for instance, there are reports that content was flagged simply because the Japanese pronunciations of words like "calorie" and "terrorist" contain the sound "loli."
What makes this instance particularly notable is that the platform itself has explicitly cited "directives from payment service providers" as the reason for the censorship. In the past, Japanese businesses forced to implement such measures—likely to preserve their relationships—rarely disclosed the involvement of payment providers.
Intervention by payment service providers is threatening to destroy Japanese content culture in an unreasonable and uninformed manner. Neither Japanese creators nor consumers desire this outcome, yet this may not be an issue that can be resolved within Japan alone. We would be deeply grateful to address this challenge through information sharing and cooperation with interested parties around the world.