Comment on [VIDEO] Japan Sanctions Visa after the Censorship of Anime and Manga
Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The video makes mention of a change.org petition calling on Visa, Mastercard and the like to ignore that sect trying to create moral outrage. I know Change.org petitions are pretty worthless, but this one already has over 100k signatures: change.org/…/tell-mastercard-visa-activist-groups…
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To this day, I don’t understand why Visa or MasterCard are necessary. If the banks can’t create a global, shared way of processing payments, then the governments should step in and do it for them.
toothpaste_ostrich@feddit.nl 1 day ago
I imagine that’s because that would be against the interests of the owners of those companies. Which presumably have some power in the world, being practically internationally successful banks.
Tldr; money.
burgerpocalyse@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
it was barely thirty years ago when small businesses didnt always accept every credit card. i remember one time as a kid i used my little bank card at a gift shop and the lady used that ancient scrubby thing to mark that weird multilayer receipt paper