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Only way to get PH to act is to threaten their bottom line. Visa and MC threatened to stop processing transactions related to PH in response to a journalist art
by xyst 6y ago
Only way to get PH to act is to threaten their bottom line. Visa and MC threatened to stop processing transactions related to PH in response to a journalist article and then in less than a few days PH decides to haphazardly delete all of the non-partnered content (which includes innocuous videos as well).
- bigmattystyles 6y ago..and forced them to bitcoin right before the latest massive uptick. If they've been sitting on them, while I'm sure only a tiny percentage will bother converting their account to BTC, and likely not enough to make up the difference, they could not have asked for a better timing.
- ogurechny 6y agoI guess most posters have already forgotten the previous big case of Visa and Mastercard declining to do processing of a client organization to praise this one as if it is a good thing. And, no, they couldn't care less about some article, and they most likely deal with much sleazier companies when it's “a matter of national/international importance”, or sufficiently high-ranking official asks politely for certain exempts. Such corporate reactions are agreed upon in advance. Even counter-terrorism arguments still mean that someone gets the right to define who is called a terrorist today for you. I can't see how this is good news. If you think that this isn't real danger, political activists in Russia have routinely be placed on “extremist” lists, which means all their bank accounts have been frozen. I know, I know, just following the law, someone has to stop the bad guys, etc.