@feld if you search for anything on a porn site, in addition to what you searched for you will get random garbage you didn't, so it's really obvious when a term returns zero results.
@Hyolobrika@feld it's not actually anything about underage that was just the term you searched for until very recently. in the last few years there's been crackdown on "insensitive" porn terms.
@lewdthewides@mrsaturday@feld@lain@sun I think they will but only if the legal situation is absolutely clear beyond reasonable doubt (as with many things in that country)
@lewdthewides@feld@lain@mrsaturday if we are talking about japan, what will happen is that the immense demand for this material will persist. A Japanese company incorporated in America will release a cryptocurrency specifically targeting Japanese people that has one or more things majorly wrong with it, but it will become the preferred one in Japan while ignoring all the existing ones.
@sun@feld@lain@mrsaturday Something is pretty much inevitable at this point. They can't afford to have all the foreigners go back to piracy, and there's too much demand for content outside of consensual sex in the missionary position with the intent of procreation
@lewdthewides@feld@lain@mrsaturday yeah if this were before cryptocurrency someone would just start a domestic payment processor. it would be small but it would be successful in japan. they can't do that now because the international market might now be bigger than domestic lol
While looking for others, found this about a firm operating there that suffered a theft and there's mention of industry and government responses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coincheck
@sun@feld@lewdthewides@lain@mrsaturday i have been watching the payment processors fuck around since the days of insex. they can't die of nuclear holocaust soon enough.
@icedquinn@feld@lewdthewides@lain@mrsaturday we all know they are doing it (well, a bunch of mastodon firstname lastnames still think its "republicans") I read that this crackdown is all because of one major investor.
@sun@lewdthewides@feld@lain Japan has JCB. It has a 40% market share, more than Visa or Mastercard. I think that's why businesses are telling Mastercard to buzz off, it's like dumping AmEx here. If JCB starts doing things Mastercard's way, we'll see how they react.
@sun@feld@lain@lewdthewides@mrsaturday Japan still had to clean up the mess, and surely they could extrapolate to how this new and iffy thing would end up being part of their financial landscape.
@icedquinn@feld@lewdthewides@lain@mrsaturday it's part of the mix. but like, focus on the family has no power over Visa. And if Republican politicians were doing it they would be taking credit.
@icedquinn@feld@lewdthewides@lain@sun This is something TPTB agrees 100% on. If you value Japan having a level of artistic freedom, you should take whatever deity you worship and pray for Ken Akamatsu's health.
@mrsaturday@feld@lewdthewides@lain@sun i'm not sure why the control grid is anti porn considering in the 60s they were giving marching orders to oversexualize everything to destroy familial relationships