Credit card companies’ censorship of video games is thriving on people’s lack of awareness, Japanese politician says  - AUTOMATON WEST
automaton-media.com
Former Japanese assemblyman offers analysis of the deliberately "invisible" mechanism of censorship by credit card companies.
    • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
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      7 months ago

      I don’t really get how this thing works, but I heard JCB uses their own infrastructure (network?) domestically and just piggyback off of Visa and/or MasterCard overseas. Is it as simple as JCB just saying hey we wanna let people living outside Japan apply for their cards?