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The group responsible is “Collective Shout”, the same org has targeted Steam before.

There are calls on social media now to contact Mastercard, Visa and co. and file complaints.

  • Jackhammer_Joe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Sure. Targeting a central bank and several independent nations will be as simple as pressuring two US companies. /s

    • network_switch@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 days ago

      You’re a dick. Hope you get better

      Practically the whole world has been having an authoritarian/conservative shift. I would not expect the EU and ECB to be a progressive force for sex work. The EU has been pushing to break encryption for a solid decade now. Visa and Mastercard process 90% of transactions outside of China. They’re huge. I don’t see why ECB leadership would be particularly less conservative and risk averse than Visa and Mastercard. Bankers are usually on the conservative side of politics

      • qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        2 days ago

        The Nederlands, Germany, Spain, if I’m not wrong, France and Italy have prostitution as legal. My own country abstains from legislating on it, instead opting to criminalizing procuring and the facilitation of prostitution, as well as human traffic for such end.

        Europe has a well established culture of sex work, with a good number of organizations lobbying - openly, through open public debate - in the way of making sex workers being recognized as any other worker and increasing their social relevance and recognition.

        If you inform yourself a bit, in my country, you can legally establish yourself as an escort, under a very specific tax code, and pay taxes according to the money you make and have tax deductions and social benefits.

        Currently, we already have a direct payment and transfer system, called MBWay, that through your phone number, allows for transfering, paying and collecting money, from one account to another.

        No fintech, no middle agents, no shit: direct transfers from one account to another.

        The Digital Euro takes this a step further. And even if the eEuro never takes place, this system is to be widened to all EU and abroad, to run against AliPay, Visa, MasterCard and others.

        Bankers want money.

        American bankers should spit out the “holy” book they have stuck up their arses.

        • network_switch@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 days ago

          At least Germany, Spain, and Italy have resurgent far right political movements. I am not about to trust government payment systems to not eventually be abused as technology makes control and surveillance easier. A holy book can be replaced with whatever new age self-help, health movement, anti-<ethnicity/sexuality/religion> movement. All it takes is some instability and desperation and people will support whatever or turn a blind eye to whatever they may think is not their problem or they may potentially benefit from. Good for the EU to run their own payment systems. When a conservative wave takes a large enough majority in governance someday, it’ll be the same problem as Visa/Mastercard/etc

          The governance powers we give with results being leftist in mind will someday be in the hands of conservative who will use them with a kind of zeal that leftist don’t

      • Glog78@digitalcourage.social
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        2 days ago

        @network_switch @Jackhammer_Joe even authoritarian states doesn’t like dependencies which can tell them what they have to do. So those companies are a risk for their independence… my personal feeling europe’s right people might not like porn but they probably would rather fight for porn then let a none european company tell them how they have to handle business ;)