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Good point. And it's not even necessarily about abuse of monopoly, at least its traditional implications. Calling it justice or freedom seems melodramatic, but
by netcan 14y ago
Good point. And it's not even necessarily about abuse of monopoly, at least its traditional implications. Calling it justice or freedom seems melodramatic, but I don't have better langage for it.
For example, paypal's advantage is (supposedly) in fraud detection. But they aren't picking up on fraud, they are picking up on fraud risk. An individual or business can register as risky for some apparently arbitrary reason and effectively be banned from a big slice of online commerce. Paypal have no mandate to provide a service to everyone, they might be better off banning 10% of the total population as high risk and passing those savings onto the remaining 90%.
Thats completely reasonable as a business decision. Not really different to simply deciding not to open a shop in Eindhoven. But when it's Paypal it becomes a justice/freedom issue. A person is disadvantaged without access to it.