Payment providers should not be able to control what users are or are not allowed to purchase with their cards. It’s a downward spiral. Electronic payment is a necessity in nowadays life.
As long as it’s a legal transaction, the providers should STFU.
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Liability?
There isn’t as far as I know and there shouldn’t ever be.
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Sets a precedent though, and implies that the card companies are responsible for what people buy. First it’s drugs, then it’s porn, liquor, gender affirming items and hormones, contraceptives, or whatever else the fascists don’t like. Companies won’t want to be fined by the fascist right once they start pushing to ban things.
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What federal law are they adhering to? Mastercard isn’t buying the drugs they are denying a person access to the funds that that person already owns. Mastercard should be agnostic to what the person uses that money for.
It sets a precedent that card companies are responsible for what their client’s purchase, and can reject transactions based on what their clients are purchasing, not how much money/credit they have.
I can go after corporate shitheads and fascists especially when they are holding each other’s cocks.
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I’ll never use Mastercard out of principle after this. Fuck them.
Cannabis users should move to ban Mastercard.
Payment processors have a functional monopoly and should not be permitted to refuse or otherwise be punitive to any category of purchase.
I think I’m going to make it a goal to stop using these companies. I think credit cards should be banned as predatory actually, or at least heavily restricted.
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That’s a very dumb business move, it might be illegal for then to do that in Canada
It should be illegal for a company to limit what you can purchase anywhere in the world.
Under the law, they literally have to limit transactions for illegal goods, otherwise they become complicit in that crime.
The real stupidity is that Marijuana is still illegal under federal law.
Ok, I’ll just switch, they already ban porn purchases 👍
Well, they can’t stop a cash withdrawal on your card to pay for it. So, it appears they still have to pay for it in a way.
