Visa/Mastercard Gatekeeping

Comments focus on Visa and Mastercard's role as powerful payment processors that act as gatekeepers, denying services to certain businesses or groups, often criticized as monopolistic censorship influenced by ethics, pressure, or policy.

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gs17 • Jul 22, 2025 • View on HN

Then Visa/MasterCard wouldn't need to be the ones to force it.

thrower123 • Nov 14, 2019 • View on HN

I'm not sure how they would avoid getting frozen out by Visa/Mastercard/Amex in turn

pas • Jul 20, 2019 • View on HN

You already have MC/Visa as gatekeepers.

xnx • Aug 6, 2025 • View on HN

I'm surprised Visa and Mastercard are OK with this.

duped • Apr 19, 2023 • View on HN

Visa and Mastercard take issue with it.

dominotw • Jun 26, 2020 • View on HN

dont forget visa and mastercard monopolies doing the same thing

fomine3 • Dec 16, 2020 • View on HN

Visa and Mastercard are both in US based, that's another problem out of this case. They censors things in the world by US citizen's ethics.

mchusma • Sep 21, 2022 • View on HN

I don't get it, seems like it is still using visa/MasterCard? Aren't they the ones at the root of most issues?

hugh3 • Jul 2, 2011 • View on HN

Surely Visa and Mastercard have the right to to business with whomever they like?

xorcist • Aug 11, 2020 • View on HN

Doesn't the likes of Mastercard and Visa pay some sort of kickback?