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Credit card transactions are also by design bound to the US. A transaction going from France to Germany, legal in both places, may still need to be routed throu
by iwwr 15y ago
Credit card transactions are also by design bound to the US. A transaction going from France to Germany, legal in both places, may still need to be routed through the US and hence controllable. And when all that fails, the US can pull on their extradition treaties to get governments to hand over anyone else.
- ghurlman 15y agoIs this just a result of Visa, Mastercard, AmEx, etc. being American companies? Are there no non-American credit card conglomerates out there?
- timbre 15y agoIf it is just a result of the credit card companies being American, JCB is a fairly widespread non-American (Japanese) alternative.