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Announcement: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/guar...

Seems like a good idea. I do wonder whether or how this will impact credit card companies who refuse to do business with certain categories of businesses who they consider too unsavory such as described in this recent story: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/29/mastercard-vis...

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This probably won't move the needle on that. Mastercard and Visa's assessments were risk-based and entirely apolitical, even if widely disagreeable (and imo against constitutional rights). Their fight will be settled separately, and I'm not holding out much hope for the right-wing willpower to defend incest video games. It wouldn't surprise me if the suggested remediation from this admin was to use crypto instead.

> Mastercard and Visa's assessments were risk-based and entirely apolitical

Any support for this assertion?

Yeah I don’t think this is accurate. The credit card companies do what the banks want, and the banks do what the government wants. If they can make a dollar legally they‘d prefer to.

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