I was referring to the credit card companies as being a monopoly. They use their top-down power to impose their politics on people. It's not just Patreon. If a

I was referring to the credit card companies as being a monopoly. They use their top-down power to impose their politics on people. It's not just Patreon. If anyone sets up a similar service, and does business with someone that Visa does not want, they will use their monopolistic power to shut you down. Imagine if they were doing this about a cause you disagreed with. Imagine if our financial industry was run by Trump supporters, and they were slowly squeezing their critics out financially. This is bad.