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functionmousetoday at 3:35 PM3 repliesview on HN

VISA is the government


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Frierentoday at 3:37 PM

When inequality is high capital is the government.

advisedwangtoday at 4:09 PM

What does this even mean? VISA is literally a publicly traded company. Compared to banks it barely even regulated.

micromacrofoottoday at 3:47 PM

actually if they were it would be easier to argue it's a violation of free speech, but since they're not they can censor with much less restriction

tbh there's a case to be made that the government should run a payment processor as critical infrastructure

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