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Credit-card firms are becoming "reluctant" regulators of the web: From sex to free speech, what goes online is increasingly up to financial companies (archive.is)
posted 4 years ago by altmehere 4 years ago by altmehere +81 / -0
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– altmehere [S] 21 points 4 years ago +21 / -0

Banks and credit-card companies too are finding themselves playing a bigger role in what is said and done in the public square—to their, and their customers’, discomfort.

Of course. They're not uncomfortable about censorship of the public square, they're uncomfortable that they just have to be the ones responsible for doing what the government cannot yet do.

they try to be very open, accepting, willing to facilitate payments for whomever. They’re not taking any sort of political or moral stance

LOL

If it is lawful, then we need to respect that transaction. If it is something that is swimming against the tide of society, it’s for the society to rise up and change the law.

And there it is. It's not for the censors to reconsider their stance, but for their censorship to be made into law.

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– Norenia 23 points 4 years ago +23 / -0

Remember, being violently against pedophilia and mental manipulation of children is "swimming against the tide of society."

Being CONSERVATIVE is "swimming against the tide of society."

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– BidenLikesMiners 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

liking nongay starwars is also swimming against the tides of wokism.

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– Minarchist_Manlet 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

Or we can make it illegal for them to regulate such content. Win win.

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– pertivi 17 points 4 years ago +17 / -0

All banks work with state money. I am just saying....

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– TentElephant 13 points 4 years ago +13 / -0

If the banks were officially nationalized and renamed to People's Federal Reserve Bank #123, the only real change would be an increase in the salience of federal power.

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– dagthegnome 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

Also higher monthly fees.

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– TentElephant 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

That's coming with a central bank digital currency. Get ready for your bank account to randomly lose money because you didn't consoom fast enough.

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– realerfunction 13 points 4 years ago +13 / -0

moneychangers have no rights

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– Erithal 16 points 4 years ago +16 / -0

They have the right to get their table flipped and driven from the temple square.

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– spambot 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

litteraly what would jesus do

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– dagthegnome 11 points 4 years ago +11 / -0

Reluctant

Then don't do it.

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– BidenLikesMiners 10 points 4 years ago +10 / -0

3 months after biden...

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– FrostedCricketFlakes 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

Mastercard has a division to do just this. They also own multiple patents for handling crypto and fiat.

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– TakenusernameA 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

The government has outsourced the authoritarianism to the business sector.

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– Six_z3r0 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

All according to keikaku.

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– deleted 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0
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– when_we_win_remember 1 point 4 years ago +1 / -0

They're very reluctant except when it comes to 'anti-Semitism'

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– deleted 9 points 4 years ago +9 / -0

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