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Visa Could Ruin the Internet (youtu.be)

submitted 1 week ago by ratrace@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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What if you woke up tomorrow and completely lost access to your bank account, credit cards, PayPal, and Venmo, all because of something you posted online?

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The vocal fry made that video unwatchable, jfk. I think the video is about financial censorship. They have been warning about this for more than a decade now, but most recently Trump issued an executive order to force payment providers to keep customers despite religious or political beliefs (article by yahoo finance).

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

Conversely, there are people whose accounts have been frozen either by the US or the EU for political motivations