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Every company is headquartered somewhere, or has some market that it cannot afford to withdraw from, and that makes them all ultimately subject to said governments. No business decision is made free from pressure when it comes to governments.
Again, the issue is this is an American company setting American content policy internationally.
Storefronts and brands can set up local branches and sell through those using the local digital payment provider without getting in trouble with their headquarter'd country. They can't do that with a private entity that's decided to set their global content policy to align with America's.
That is not the issue. That may be the subset of the issue that you have a problem with, but the actual issue is a payment provider setting purchase restrictions period. That it is happening in the US is not uniquely bad; it would be equally bad happening anywhere else.
Interpreting the international impact to be "the issue" would mean that if this were only affecting Americans, this would be fine, which is absolutely not the case.
To set up and sell in that country, they then have to comply with the local payment providers. Which shouldn't be deciding whether people can purchase something, just as Visa shouldn't be.