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I've been waiting for this for a while, this has been pretty blatant for a while now.

Credit card processors end up having unjust influence over every business that has a significant online component, and the processors don't hold back from using that influence to force the hand of many businesses that aren't big enough to fight back. They simply threaten to block the business for having X objectionable but legal content.

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My wife runs her own occupational therapy business (OT is consistently assessed to be one of the jobs least likely to ever be automated). Credit card processors still rule her life.

This article seems to specifically be talking about debit transactions, rather than credit cards (unless I misunderstand it).

I tend to use the two interchangeably, since most websites don't really differentiate between them on the user-facing side.

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