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rowanG077 on Aug 17, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Can the Visa-Mastercard duopoly be broken?

> Visa and Mastercard are the privatized court systems of the internet.

You make it sound like that is a good thing. They are loose cannons that time and time again have shown they shouldn't be trusted.

kube-system on Aug 18, 2022 [–]

It's better than flying to China and hiring a Chinese lawyer to dispute some aliexpress purchase.

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