Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
by retsibsi on Saturday November 10, 2018 @07:27PM
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> It is not ok that a political organization, that did not break any laws, have had multiple payment processors collude together to censor their transactions.
It seems that the 'not breaking any laws' part should preclude actions by law enforcement/government, but why shouldn't private companies be allowed to act on political motives? I get that there's a potential slippery slope here, but it's not obvious to me that a better alternative is to force companies to e.g. facilitate the campaigning and fundraising of neo-nazis.
Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia
by stale2002 on Saturday November 10, 2018 @09:37PM
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The problem is when the payment companys are so big and so few, that 1 or 2 companies can basically shutdown an entire business themself (by removing their ability to be paid).
The solution is to use anti monopoly laws to break them up.
I don't think that companies should be forced to do something. What I instead want is for there to be enough competition in the market, such that no matter how terrible your views, there exists at least 1 one who will work with you.
And if there isn't enough competition in a market, then that's a problem.
This happens all of the time to lots of people.
The biggest example is probably legal porn transactions that get censored by all the major financial companies.
If you want to get into political discrimination, we can bring up how wikileaks, which broke zero laws, had all their payment processing revoked.
And more recently, we can bring up legal services such ash GAB, that are being targeted for political reasons, and have had payment processing revoked.
It is not ok that a political organization, that did not break any laws, have had multiple payment processors collude together to censor their transactions.