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Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io (www.theguardian.com)
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Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.

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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Discover, American Express, Diner’s Club, and the one that still rules them all, Cash. There are probably others, but Visa and Mastercard are the two largest.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Diners Club is Discover, and they got bought up by Capital One a couple months ago. So you'll only really have Amex left.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    What's wrong with Capital One? I feel like Discover/Capital One / Diner's Club network is a good thing for Discover customers.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    What benefits would Discover customers get from Capital One's acquisition? Discover acceptance in the US has been almost on-par with Visa/MC for many many years.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Remember that Discover is self-banked (unlike Visa/Mastercard that banks sign up with). This means that every credit line needs to be backed by... well ... A bank.

    Bigger banks mean more credit opportunities, better interest rates (etc. etc). Deeper credit lines.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    How do I transfer my cash to online stores?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    You can in Japan apparently. They have a system where you can go to convenience store and pay by scanning a code

    You can also sorta use zelle, but the technical integration is not great. It's a very manual process as it is

    Ultimately, the problem is we let two companies dominate commerce itself. We just need to let the governmet do payment processing, and require compatibility

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    There are a lot of places going cashless these days. Heck some of my kids friend went to target and couldn't buy anything because target didn't have the staff to run anything but the self checkout, which at this place didn't accept cash. They had to leave empty-handed.

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