Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up
Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up

Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up

The petition addressed that MasterCard and Visa must stop censoring legal fictional content that complies with the law and platform standards.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20250725225542/https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mastercard-visa-under-fire-petition-payment-giants-not-police-legal-content-blows-1739406
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Financial networks either need "network neutrality" rules or maybe that monopoly needs to get broken up
"Common carrier" is the jargon you're looking for.
Give me some European competition please. I'm not happy about all of them being American...
Individual countries already have their own versions and an EU level version is beeing rolled out. Let's see how it works out.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(payment)
https://wero-wallet.eu/
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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.
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.