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.
this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2023
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As long as it's a legal transaction, the providers should STFU.
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.
This is lame. Mastercard telling people what not to by is outrageous but not the first time they've done this.
What else have they done? I had no idea this was even legal.
they did it with pornhub at least
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.
These aren't credit cards, but debit cards. It's access to money you have already earned, is in the bank, you own, and Mastercard is saying you can't spend it on a particular thing. You get around this by doing an ATM cash withdrawal, but it's still an extra step, and it's still a megacorp restricting your access to something that the law does not.
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.
Ok, I’ll just switch, they already ban porn purchases 👍