By the by, isn't this whole fiasco violating our rights in the first place?
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"Rights" are only real to the extent that you can successfully argue them in a court of law. Visa is a triple digit BILLION dollar international company. No one's in a position to win that court case except the US Government, and that isn't likely to happen. Even worse, a lot of this may stem from the fallout of FOSTA/SESTA, laws put in place in...2009 or so? to allegedly combat sex trafficking that ended up killing dead all kinds of sex related online communities: Craigslist personals, backpage, and pounced.org (only real ones will remember) were nuked outright, and many others including fetlife and tumblr were heavily censored as a result. FOSTA/SESTA aren't DIRECTLY related to the current nonsense as they're more about real actual people, not fiction, but they set a precedent, opening up both payment processors and sites to legal vulnerability. This may seem to contradict what I just said a moment ago, but suing someone because they violated a very clearly defined legal construction, with mountains of evidence, is much easier (and more lucrative), than doing so because they violated "rights" in a nebulous way. No one, unfortunately, has a right to not be debanked. We SHOULD, given the card companies are a monopoly, but we don't.