> whims of the backwards ultra hard right conservative leadership at the credit card companies the credit card companies executives like money, this isn't orig

> whims of the backwards ultra hard right conservative leadership at the credit card companies the credit card companies executives like money, this isn't originating with them. It originated in the US federal government. (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point ) It works quite similar to the great firewall in China. ISPs are not so much told what they are to block, they're told Do Not Embarrass the Party or Else. So even as the pressure has come off in this administration, the memory of the or Else remains, and processors will continue to swat random shit in the hopes of appeasing an uncommunicative but clearly spiteful god.