| ▲ | functionmouse 2 days ago |
| VISA is the government |
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| ▲ | Frieren 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| When inequality is high capital is the government. |
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| ▲ | micromacrofoot 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| actually if they were it would be easier to argue it's a violation of free speech, but since they're not they can censor with much less restriction tbh there's a case to be made that the government should run a payment processor as critical infrastructure |
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| ▲ | coldacid 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | The way governments these days use corporations and NGOs to work around constitutional restrictions, I'm sure they're pretty happy leaving the payment processors as-is. | | | |
| ▲ | marcosdumay 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | If they can make laws and people are subject to those laws, then they are government. I only disagree with the "the" on the GP, they are para-governamental. | | |
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| ▲ | advisedwang 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What does this even mean? VISA is literally a publicly traded company. Compared to banks it barely even regulated. |
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| ▲ | tavavex 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Really? I thought the subtext is as obvious as it could've been. The point they're making is that a duopoly that controls the flow of money itself deciding to ban a whole market segment for ideological or profit reasons is no different from a government making that thing actually illegal, in terms of the effect it has on businesses and people. |
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