Japanese Netizens Waking Up to Perils of Foreign Credit Card Reliance
In response to Mastercard suddenly cutting support for Japanese video hosting site Niconico, more Japanese netizens are waking up to the idea that their culture is being negatively affected thanks to the whims of foreign credit card companies, with a rally to switch to JCB instead. On No
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NicoNico temporarily suspends handling of Mastercard, possibly due to disagreement over 'cat video'
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The reason is mastercard's faggot ass got triggered over a troll title of some dude abusing a cat but actually taking care of it and demanded it be taken down or else niconico would lose access to their services.
That sounds to me that the clearly racist mastercard was just looking for any reason to give japan more shit since I don't recall niconico being infamous for hosting anything that would violate their retarded rules.
Additional news: paypal no longer works on DLsite, it was used to buy points to purchase their stuff. Other cards should still work for now, we know how this shit goes down. If paypal wasn't ok with us buying points, not any explicit titles then the remaining american cards are likely to take the same path.
