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Mastercard, Visa Under Fire As Petition To 'Not Police' Legal Content Blows Up
(www.ibtimes.co.uk)
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100,000 people who are still essentially required to use their services for most commerce and will continue to do so.
So many vendors won't take Amex or Discover due to their higher processing fees you can't really even boycott them effectively.
The members of Collective Shout are in exactly the same position. So why did the payment processors listen to them?
The fact that this whole issue even occurred is proof that public pressure, when applied smartly, does in fact work.
Exactly. Collective shout argued that these companies would lose face by processing these payments. A targeted mass response will inform them that the opposite is true
yes, can't boycott. MAYBE can do other things. Hell, if I heard that people were doing something mildly illegal en masse to fuck things up for Visa and MasterCard, I might actually consider doing it myself as well. MIGHT.
or something totally legal that isn't a boycott like showing up at their headquarters in a crowd of thousands. |
SOME people might cross the line into illegality by molotovs or other such 'implements'.
I'm honestly curious: Are you one of the people who doesn't understand how the number can be represenative how the wider populace feels? Or are you one of those who are just trying to downplay the whole thing?
I'm saying Visa and Mastercard have zero reason to change their practices because people don't really have an option not to use their services no matter how upset they are.