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Reading comprehension is important and must be developed and tended like a garden.

scarface_74 3y ago
> The biggest problems are loss of autonomy, privacy, and redundancy. Whole life dependent on G and A corps? Accounts that can be banned on a whim with no recourse? No thank you. ((extends middle finger)) This all applies to credit card companies. Try running a porn site and accepting payments with credit cards
- mixmastamyk 3y ago
  I'm not okay with that either. (Although PCI DSS and banking regulations do present a limit to their potential shenanigans.) A secondary in any case, as issues have well-developed remediation strategies. Few regular folks are banned from the financial system without recourse. I get it. You wanted to be edgy and shoot from the hip, but this time pulled the trigger too fast.
  - scarface_74 3y ago
    > secondary in any case, as issues have well-developed remediation strategies. Few regular folks are banned from the financial system without recourse. Here is where you are wrong https://finance.yahoo.com/news/banks-keeping-closer-tab-reputation-113200013.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/banks-keeping-closer-tab-repu... Try running a perfectly legal porn website or anything controversial and try getting a merchant account. I had a friend who ran party buses that catered to the LGBT community and had a hard time getting a merchant account while others in her same industry didn’t have a problem.
    - mixmastamyk 3y ago
      Digress much, to your favored point that affects not even 1% of the population?
      - scarface_74 3y ago
        Yes and the number of college students in the United States who don’t want to use a smart phone affects how many people?
        mixmastamyk 3y ago
        Everyone is going to be affected by the growing requirements to have a smartphone. Don’t want to be in bed with G/Apple? Battery dead? S.O.L. Try going to a big name concert without one—can’t be done thanks to Ticketmaster.
        scarface_74 3y ago
        92% of the US population has smartphones. A quick Google search shows that even 94% of the homeless have a cell phone.

> The biggest problems are loss of autonomy, privacy, and redundancy. Whole life dependent on G and A corps? Accounts that can be banned on a whim with no recourse? No thank you. ((extends middle finger)) This all applies to credit card companies. Try running a porn site and accepting payments with credit cards

mixmastamyk 3y ago
I'm not okay with that either. (Although PCI DSS and banking regulations do present a limit to their potential shenanigans.) A secondary in any case, as issues have well-developed remediation strategies. Few regular folks are banned from the financial system without recourse. I get it. You wanted to be edgy and shoot from the hip, but this time pulled the trigger too fast.
- scarface_74 3y ago
  > secondary in any case, as issues have well-developed remediation strategies. Few regular folks are banned from the financial system without recourse. Here is where you are wrong https://finance.yahoo.com/news/banks-keeping-closer-tab-reputation-113200013.html https://finance.yahoo.com/news/banks-keeping-closer-tab-repu... Try running a perfectly legal porn website or anything controversial and try getting a merchant account. I had a friend who ran party buses that catered to the LGBT community and had a hard time getting a merchant account while others in her same industry didn’t have a problem.
  - mixmastamyk 3y ago
    Digress much, to your favored point that affects not even 1% of the population?
    - scarface_74 3y ago
      Yes and the number of college students in the United States who don’t want to use a smart phone affects how many people?
      - mixmastamyk 3y ago
        Everyone is going to be affected by the growing requirements to have a smartphone. Don’t want to be in bed with G/Apple? Battery dead? S.O.L. Try going to a big name concert without one—can’t be done thanks to Ticketmaster.
        scarface_74 3y ago
        92% of the US population has smartphones. A quick Google search shows that even 94% of the homeless have a cell phone.