• Zess@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      They could make the digital money invalid at stores they don’t like, they could make it invalid for buying something they don’t want you to buy

      Credit card companies already do this.

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      7 months ago

      Well I think banks have a few laws that prevent those things. But remembering the Pornhub incident where MasterCard and Visa stopped their partnership to strongarm them. In that case the motivation was child safety and not greed. But it was a display of power.