Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.

• scottrepreneur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Did credit cards stop working on websites?

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  • diablexical@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I should have been more direct - if a site accepts credit card payments then they are working with a payment processor that will absolutely 100% cooperate with the govt in choking off sites access to revenue. So to answer your question did cc’s stop working on websites - yes! on many that a govt has decided needs to be shut down, for legitimate or illegitimate reasons. Wikileaks donations being a famous example but if a site doesn’t comply with Texas you bet they can snap their fingers and all payment processors will jump from that site.

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• muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You’ve never bought anything online before apps?

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  • diablexical@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    See reply to another poster - I meant to point out that if governments move to censor sites the payment processors will move in lockstep to the govt in censoring payments.

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    • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Then people will pay with other means. There’s tons of crypto bullshit options out there to choose from.

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      • diablexical@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        crypto bullshit

        Boom! Thats what I was going for. Lemmy seems so anti-crypto when it has real use cases like this. Even here stumbling into where it’s useful you call it bullshit, why?

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