I feel very, very strange that payment processors can act that way. It's not the first time I hear about such things, other times it has happened with Paypal or

I feel very, very strange that payment processors can act that way. It's not the first time I hear about such things, other times it has happened with Paypal or Stripe. I mean that's some users' fault, isn'it it? Isn't it the job of the payment processor to identify and handle problem users and crooks? What am I paying them for? I don't really understand how they can boot customers, _and_ boot them _without an explanation_. They should need at least a ruling from a judge. I can understand if my audience is "risky" and hence I get no discount on fees and so on, but this behaviour is unacceptable and - IMHO - it breaks business freedom and (potentially) competition. I don't know if it's the same in the US, but in Italy, as an example, a "real" business operating in brick-and-mortar locations is considered a "public place" (pubblico esercizio) and it can't refuse its services to people that can pay for them (barring some legal limits, e.g. selling alcohol to kids or to people that are already drunk). I think that in a ruling some years ago those rights were extended to online shops and activities. If you want to give services to a restricted audience you can create a "private club", but then you're severely limited in what you can do in marketing/advertising and such. I really think the same should happen for internet activities. This is blatant - albeit algorithmic - discrimination.