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

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[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

In the case of Visa and Mastercard though, how could they possible care about their brand and the possibility of some left-wing boycott? I can understand some companies being bombarded by abuse by campaign groups that target them and deciding to pull advertising etc, but these two in particular can just tell them all to fuck off.

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    [–]AllStr8SexIsRape 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    They should be forced to serve us. If Christian cake bakers can be forced to serve gays, then credit card companies should not be allowed to deny service to conservatives. Ideological discrimination is discrimination. Either treat it as such or get rid of civil rights laws altogether.

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

    I don’t think it’s a left vs right thing - There’s only one thing that matters to every single one of these corps: $$$ - they are all two faced and play both sides tricking you into seeing it like this so that you misplace your anger to your fellow citizen that happens to disagree with your political thinking but I guarantee you when it comes down to the bottom line, these places only speak one language and it’s money, they don’t give two shits about community, justice, morals or ethics no matter the politics of it

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

    It’s virtue signaling - they don’t actually care - they just want to point to some minor action and say “see we did something” — if it was a big money maker to them to ignore some kind of injustice they would and do it gladly