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Can Visa and MasterCard be sued for this censorship debacle? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by NONE_dc@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Like, maybe not because of censorship per se, but maybe for abusing their power as an oligopoly or going against the desire of their users?

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[–] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 2 points 6 days ago

Campaigns like this have always been effective. And this is what the Right does, they complain en masse about everything that offends their hypocritical views. They are the ones that believe 110% in "cancel culture", and then turn around and call the Left out when we block Nazis.

Also, MC and Visa are well within their rights to tell groups like this to go pound rocks, but groups like this also know if they grind down resources they usually win. The only way to prevent it is to ban the protesting of corporations, but then when they do the bad shit they love to do we'll be without any recourse. It's a bit of a double-edge sword.