Forget Google - It's time to break up the payment processing duopoly of Visa and MasterCard

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[–]philosopher 38 insightful - 4 fun38 insightful - 3 fun39 insightful - 4 fun -  (16 children)

I don't use Gab, but I heard they lost all ability to take payment this week, when Visa shut them down. The same happened to Wikileaks a while back. I don't think a small number of corporations should decide who I can give my money to or not.

[–]King_Brutus 24 insightful - 2 fun24 insightful - 1 fun25 insightful - 2 fun -  (15 children)

It's amazing that people haven't woken up to this. Banks should be neutral and not decide what money goes where.

[–]Double_A 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

They are probably just following legal requirements though?

[–]King_Brutus 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (10 children)

Specifically with Gab, it wasn't a legal decision. They were "Taking a stand against hate speech".

[–]Karlfranz 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

I can’t believe all of these corporations that are actively pressuring Facebook to suppress free speech

WE should be out burning and pillaging holdings for that stance.

[–]liberty_primer 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Who would have thought Facebook of all platforms would be the one to hold out the longest?

(at least to some extent.)

I think they might have a motive. Scanning data on their platform and selling it to political groups regardless of the group’s political affiliation would be mad profitable.

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Facebook has been censoring since ages. They have even employed Soros funded organisations for censoring duties. Now they pretend that Facebook is not censoring enough when we know it's the opposite. Sounds like a staged situation.

[–]liberty_primer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

That's odd because Soros ain't a fan of Zuck.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/opinion/soros-facebook-zuckerberg.html

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

This organisation called "Ellinika Hoaxes" is funded by Soros and has censoring duties on the Greek side of Facebook. There are plenty of articles (in Greek) on that matter.

[–]liberty_primer 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Links? I can’t just run it through Google Translate

[–]dart200 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

instead most people i know would support it.

[–]AllStr8SexIsRape 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

If states have rights, then corporations are people, and if corporations are people, then the First Amendment applies to them, and their attempts to subvert it are unconstitutional and therefore illegal.

[–]AllStr8SexIsRape 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All non-Jewish religion is hate speech and should be banned on those grounds.

[–]hector_died_of_aids 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

how can you be on saidit and be so naive?

[–]Double_A 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I didn't see this was a thread about Gab. I was more thinking of things like "You can't transfer money to Cuba" or "You can't recieve more than 10k$ without explaining where it came from" and things like that.

[–]Tom_Bombadil 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The legal requirements they purchase.