Curtis Staples

I’ve previously asked people not to turn the cover design into a template, yet some are still doing it. Comments like “GACHIAKUTA is only popular because of GACHIAKUTA OCs!” or “Are you denying our creativity?” are missing the point. Please understand the boundary between fan works and the official material. ※I am using a translation app.

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Through emails HobbyLink Japan has confirmed they will no longer sell "Adult-Oriented" items on their site. HLJ has yet to release a statement on why this happened, but the pattern is eerily similar to censorship on Steam, Itch io, and other Anime Sites within Japan. Do you think VISA is back at it again?

The account who made the tweet celebrating the deaths of white children during the Texas floods, "Cindy Steinberg" is using a photo of a woman named Faith Hicks as their profile picture and impersonating her while saying hateful and inflammatory things. Video from Facebook.

So I just had a peek at all the sites in Japan hit by VISA and Mastercard. Its actually insane how many businesses have been harmed and barely anyone talks about it.

Fascism is when you tell someone the evil demon who calls himself the baghoul the innocent genocider isn’t a good guy.

It’s just a 1 family house…….

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@ANTllSM ...glad more vtubers are showing their face...that seems like the opposite of what vtubers should do but okay.

>makes a virtue signal tweet >gets backlash >leaves twitter >comes back to twitter >repeats the cycle

China's contempt for Freedom of Speech has seen authors receive sentences ranging up to 5 years. nichegamer.com/chinese-censor…

Watching @Styx666Official’s video on Brendan Carr and the FCC and I immediately return to a @JohnStossel clip that lives rent-free in my head

【クレジットカード問題】 ビザ・ワールドワイド・ジャパンから、社長の発言につき回答を得ました。 ビザ・ワールドワイド・ジャパン代表取締役社長のシータン・キトニー氏が、アダルトコンテンツに対して、「時には、ブランドを守るために、使えなくすることが必要になる」とコメントした、との11月27日の報道。 watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1642… 本件について、ビザ・ワールドワイド・ジャパンに問い合わせたところ、以下の点を本日12月2日に確認が取れました。 ・VISA本社（米国）が山田太郎に回答した内容に変更・追加はない ・報道のコメントは、アクワイアラーや決済代行会社等の現場の判断としてそのような場合があることを承知しているというもの つまり、依然、VISA本社（米国）としても、ビザ・ワールドワイド・ジャパンとしても、私がVISA本社（米国）から得たものと齟齬がなく、以下が公式の見解とのことです。 ・取引については、合法、非合法の法的判断は行っているが、合法であるコンテンツ等に対する価値判断は行なっていない。 ・アダルトコンテンツに関しても、①年齢に関するルールが遵守されていること（児童ポルノではないこと）、②合意のもとで提供されるものであること、という万国共通の基準を定め、それに基づく判断を行なっているが、内容に関する基準は定めておらず、判断もしていない。 ・VISA規約についても、本社は基準を決めているのみで、判断を行なっていない（判断を行うのは現場） ・VISA本社は、特定の用語（キーワード）を含むコンテンツについて、取扱ってはならない、と言った指示を出した事はない。 （参考：x.com/yamadataro43/s…） そもそも国際ブランドは割賦販売法の対象外という状況です。しかし、国民生活の安定と向上、公正かつ自由な競争の促進、表現の自由の確保等の観点から、国際ブランド・アクワイアラー・決済代行会社・イシュアーのそれぞれについて、どのようなルールが必要なのか、引き続き検討を進めていきます。 #クレジットカード問題 #山田太郎

This man believes he must protect “Visa’s brand” by denying Japanese artists the ability to sell Japanese art to customers who want to buy it. Notice this just says adult content. It isn’t talking about one questionable type and I have been warning that it has expanded well beyond any moral authority scope. It always starts with “think of the children”, but we see it now. I still believe he is receiving marching orders from the American branch and is the fall guy. This photo is interesting though, very stand offish man- also interesting he isn’t Japanese. Visa wants to “protect its brand” but will still service Hollywood and Netflix- shows like euphoria and cuties- all the sexual assault and rape that happens in Hollywood too- you’d think they’d want nothing to do with that. Or the music industry- all the glorification of sex, sinful lifestyle, and practically naked twerking. That’s all fine- but Japanese adult content? Not fine. Hypocrites. @Visa why are you like this? Visa is currently being investigated by the US government for essentially buying up or snuffing out competition so there are no alternatives. Crypto fixes this problem. Regardless how you feel about it or the “bros”, visa and Mastercard can’t stop crypto. Why do you think they are investing heavily into it still? Also funny how it’s always those 2 in tandem.

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Some MW fan creators have been receiving harassment over works that others have found distasteful. If you see fan works that you do not like, block/ignore it. ANY form of harassment is unacceptable. If you can't be respectful and considerate, this fandom is not the place for you.

Corporate mergers and acquisitions suck. whatever short term upsides they may have for the fanboys are by far outweighed by an the stuff that DOESN'T get made.

if pewdiepie drawing everyday for a year and getting a little bit better made you quit art, then you were never going to make it as an artist anyway.

How many shops do i have to talk about before we can get change. Why are international payment processors demanding censorship???? Why are we letting people police fiction??? This is wrong and it's why we need a new system. This is just encouraging crypto to take over.

...didn't this happen the last time Trump ran, I vaguely remember some type of moon curse.

hey, black person here: having a minority actor in your product does not make it "woke", please shut up about this brainrot, thank you.