Submitted 8 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
The petition addressed that MasterCard and Visa must stop censoring legal fictional content that complies with the law and platform standards.
Archived version: archive.is/…/mastercard-visa-under-fire-petition-…
Petition: change.org/…/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups…
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Att first i thought it was just PayPal. Not great but ok. Fair enough.
But Visa and MasterCard blocking stuff is not ok. Their position is too big. And too crucial in the infrastructure.
But. A bank that can get something new rolling should profit quite well, which is a good incentive to come up with alternative
Remember when Visa and Mastercard made a big deal defending the right to buy guns on their platform? …yahoo.com/…/visa-won-t-block-gun-180848343.html
Cryptocurrencies were made to avoid shit like this. Good luck gently ask mastercard and visa to change their policies.
Good luck scaling them
Too bad they suck in too many other ways for them to be a sane alternative.
How do they suck? They have their pro and cons, i would still take them as an alternative to a for profit private corporation.
I’m not gonna buy your fucking monkeys
Cryptocurrencies were a poorly thought out excuse to use block chain. Don’t give them any more credit than that.
Your comment makes no sense. Bitcoin was definitely made to be a decentralized alternative and the blockchain was part of that.
Am I the only one who thought from the headline that MC and Visa were censoring fake legal documents and not adult entertainment?
Financial networks either need “network neutrality” rules or maybe that monopoly needs to get broken up
No joke. Payment processors absolutely need to be treated as a utility. Stuff like this is exactly why it’s such a big deal to reinstate/protect net-neutrality as well. What we’re watching right now with payment processors isn’t even end-game yet for what they potentially could do, and it already sucks. I can’t even imagine once ISP start doing the same thing. Monopolies are the death of consumer rights. The unabated power, corruption, and corporately bought and controlled laws/ governing bodies makes the entire prospect even worse.
Give me some European competition please. I’m not happy about all of them being American…
Check out Taler
Individual countries already have their own versions and an EU level version is beeing rolled out. Let’s see how it works out.
“Common carrier” is the jargon you’re looking for.
Either you’re a bank under strict regulations when you’re handling that kind of money, or you have no business processing that kind of money. PayPal & co dodges most regulations due to technically not being a bank, but at that size they shouldn’t be able to abuse loopholes.
Well my adult game content provider uses paypal and they have not been affected by this bullshit.
Etterra@discuss.online 8 months ago
It won’t matter.bi mean nothing will change. Everyone will have to keep using their services and most people just don’t know or care. Until a new company that does the same job but without the bullshit (preferably a co-op) flights its way into the industry to break their monopoly, morning will change.