• EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months ago

    All of these reasons are why the corporations want to force us all to use digital currency completely controlled by them.

    They could make the digital money invalid at stores they don’t like, they could make it invalid for buying something they don’t want you to buy and they can make it expire after awhile, forcing you to spend it instead of saving it.

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      5 months ago

      Well I think banks have a few laws that prevent those things. But remembering the Pornhub incident where MasterCard and Visa stopped their partnership to strongarm them. In that case the motivation was child safety and not greed. But it was a display of power.

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        5 months ago

        Pornhub does everything they can to remove nonconsensual stuff from their platform as quickly as possible

        The boomers in the executive room just listened to the media sensationalizing the story and hit the nuclear option without taking any objective looks at what was actually going on

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      5 months ago

      They could make the digital money invalid at stores they don’t like, they could make it invalid for buying something they don’t want you to buy

      Credit card companies already do this.