Anonymous asked:

Why are credit card companies going harder on policing this stuff recently?

Anonymous asked:

Why do you think credit card companies have been recently going harder on this stuff?

It's mostly the fault of activists. Which is to the surprise of nobody, since activists have spent most of the last decade and a half actively trying to ruin the world, in the name of fighting against problems that only started to exist because of them ruining the world. I don't know why it's all kicking off now, but I assume there must have been some lobbying that I don't know about, either publicly or behind closed doors.

Anonymous asked:

Do you think the credit card companies will eventually win and have it their way?

Yes. The only alternative at this point in time is to turn to cryptocurrency, but it's still too unstable and foreign a concept to achieve mainstream popularity. So what's probably going to happen is that the industry will keep having to make little changes (explicit words replaced with euphemisms, the most "extreme" stuff delisted from stores, more and more restrictions on new content, etc.), until it eventually becomes unfeasible to make anything that powerful activists dislike. It won't have to be technically impossible to make or sell, say, a rape game, but you will have to jump through so many hoops, or limit your reach to so few retailers, or only accept such obscure and shady methods of payment that it will be easier to simply comply. We already have similar sorts of things in the Western indie porn game scene, where you're at risk of Patreon demonetizing you if you even include something as mundane as incest.