Dan Gillmor@dangillmor@mastodon.social
Payment processors are a cartel, which is why they can actively censor what you are allowed to buy online.
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/valve-pushes-back-after-mastercard-denies-quashing-adult-content-on-game-platforms
Andrew Hunter@rexbron@mstdn.ca
@dangillmor@mastodon.social @chad@mstdn.ca
I feel a distinct irony that this is exactly the sort of problem that cryptocurrencies claim to solve but instead decided there was more money in being a speculative pseudo security, then a payment network.