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Urgent: Dominant tech platforms and payment

mardi 1 février 2022 à 23:49

US citizens: call on regulators to ban ownership of payment systems by the dominant tech platforms.

The main digital payment systems are unjust for two reasons: they require users to run nonfree Javascript code to use them, and they require users to identify themselves. If they were owned by megacompanies, that would be an additional injustice. Preventing that would be good, but would not make them acceptable to use.