There was a case where UK based influencer got into FTC trouble for the CSGO Lotto gambling site. He was promoting it without disclosing he had a stake in the site.
Side stepping local country government, and applying pressure to payment processors to enforce your own rules globally should not be able to happen.
Even a government should not be able to dictate what other countries do.
Similarly UK OfCom is a non governmental organisation, so not civil servants either.