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Re:Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on Por... by labster on Thursday August 04, 2022 @06:39PM (#32349207)
If this standard was applied perfectly, every company under the threshold would be trying to shut its large competitors down with moles to sabotage them with a single documented illegal act.
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Re:Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on Por... by L6489afSMNLNFDa on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:11PM (#32350699)
If this standard was applied perfectly, large competitors would actually follow the laws... just like large businesses do today with laws that are actually enforced (MUCH more so than small businesses especially)... and why do you think they wouldn't be the ones trying to sabotage the upstart competitors? That's historically much more likely (although I'm sure it would in fact happen in both directions).

Moreover, is that bad? Is punishing people when they do something illegal bad?

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Re:Visa, Mastercard suspend payments for ad purchases on Por... by pauldenton on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:38PM (#32360124)
What did Visa do that was illegal?
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