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Re:Brazilian authorities suspend WhatsApp payments by filoleg on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:42PM (#23635541)
> If a proprietary standard wins, you have a monopoly without competition

Maybe they should make their government standard good enough that it wins on its own merit then. Imo, the biggest thing this block does is essentially giving the government standard a license be as subpar as they want, because it isn't like a superior non-government standard is even allowed to compete with it anyway.

Re:Brazilian authorities suspend WhatsApp payments by marcosdumay on Thursday June 25, 2020 @12:15AM (#23636843)
Ah, I see. There are a few banks that can decide to adopt or not a standard. Yeah, taking the choice from the government to those banks will certainly make everything better.