There's also a difference between active policing and being a platform.
VISA and Mastercard have been demonitizing and demonizing random Japanese developers for having the ever-present "actually 9000 years old vampire" characters, even in completely non-sexual settings, citing the reasons being public morals and morality policing. Falling afoul of DEI practices. They cut off funding for political reasons, often HIDDEN political reasons that required research and effort to find. Meanwhile, OnlyFans is a KNOWN issue, they've publicly had chronic problems about it, and they not only didn't even try to shift their focus, they endorsed it!
If VISA had just been a publisher, no one here would care. They're cash in the form of a plastic card? That's exactly what they should be. But instead, VISA decided to be a publisher, to vet and to moderate content on which it can be exchanged, based on specific political values. The moment they do that, they, in the public eye at least, lose all "we're just a platform, just a cash substitute" defenses. They researched Japanese companies to make sure they were western baizuo DEI-compliant and pulled service from ones that weren't. But they actively turned a blind eye to the blatant issues on a corp 100x bigger.
Trump should just nationalize the big 4 credit card companies into an open interbank network so that the banks are running their own cards and you can just hop banks if they refuse to process payments.
thaaaat seems like a really bad idea long term. there's too much centralization of banking as it is.
Don't get me wrong, I get where you're coming from, but the potential for abuse seems a bit high, especially when you consider what happens if somebody gets in who isn't exactly on the up and up.
I was pretty much suggesting making it so the credit card system works the same way as the debit card system, where it's an open interbank network like interac in Canada, which also needs to be nationalized as they declared allegiance to the regressive left.
maybe. i just get a little queasy anytime someone suggests centralizing banking any more than it already is...hope you didn't think I was attacking you.
There's also a difference between active policing and being a platform.
VISA and Mastercard have been demonitizing and demonizing random Japanese developers for having the ever-present "actually 9000 years old vampire" characters, even in completely non-sexual settings, citing the reasons being public morals and morality policing. Falling afoul of DEI practices. They cut off funding for political reasons, often HIDDEN political reasons that required research and effort to find. Meanwhile, OnlyFans is a KNOWN issue, they've publicly had chronic problems about it, and they not only didn't even try to shift their focus, they endorsed it!
If VISA had just been a publisher, no one here would care. They're cash in the form of a plastic card? That's exactly what they should be. But instead, VISA decided to be a publisher, to vet and to moderate content on which it can be exchanged, based on specific political values. The moment they do that, they, in the public eye at least, lose all "we're just a platform, just a cash substitute" defenses. They researched Japanese companies to make sure they were western baizuo DEI-compliant and pulled service from ones that weren't. But they actively turned a blind eye to the blatant issues on a corp 100x bigger.
think you meant platform here, minor typo. happens.
yup, my bad.
no worries.
Trump should just nationalize the big 4 credit card companies into an open interbank network so that the banks are running their own cards and you can just hop banks if they refuse to process payments.
thaaaat seems like a really bad idea long term. there's too much centralization of banking as it is.
Don't get me wrong, I get where you're coming from, but the potential for abuse seems a bit high, especially when you consider what happens if somebody gets in who isn't exactly on the up and up.
I was pretty much suggesting making it so the credit card system works the same way as the debit card system, where it's an open interbank network like interac in Canada, which also needs to be nationalized as they declared allegiance to the regressive left.
maybe. i just get a little queasy anytime someone suggests centralizing banking any more than it already is...hope you didn't think I was attacking you.