These rules weren't made to keep the little guy down. Nintendo is not afraid of a game about a catgirl getting raped. Capcom is not afraid. Rockstar is not even afraid. They are not worried about it eating into their market shares. I don't need to read Das Kapital to know that.
I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about a field that see's increased regulation so that the fruits of the patrolled field can be reaped by some company or other that has the right connections. Could be anything, so long as they play the DEI and ESG fields as prescribed by the institutional investors that control our entire economy. You can't watch the same thing happen in near to every sector in our economy and not suspect it reaches further. From medicine to military, newsrooms to payment providers. Increased regulations are paving the way for something else, most of the time.
Mastercard, nothing. But institutional investors are willing to lose a LOT of money on Disney to keep that propaganda machine rolling, billions in losses and they just voted to make sure nothing changes at all. The real muscle holds the line. Pelts couldn't do anything about it in the end. There's a lot going on at all times, money moves, and it tells stories. Why not take a look? By the end of that rabbit hole, you'll look at this stuff a lot differently.