What if you woke up tomorrow and completely lost access to your bank account, credit cards, PayPal, and Venmo, all because of something you posted online?

  • remon@ani.social
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    13 days ago

    Pretty sure having a bank account is like an EU right, so banks can’t just close your account willy-nilly over some online post.

    • stoy@lemmy.zip
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      13 days ago

      Yes, but VISA would hold the keys to the infrastructure that let’s you use it in in a modern world.

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        13 days ago

        Except for maybe international online payments, there are already alternatives, so I don’t quite see how.

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        12 days ago

        Visa doesn’t hold the keys to the WERO infrastructure. WERO is basically a facilitator to the system of real time bank transfers that already exists anyway on European infrastructure. It is not a credit card system in that sense, because the money goes immediately from one account to another, but so what?

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      13 days ago

      Most likely it is an EU right, but violations would require a lot of effort to straighten, so I wouldn’t be surrised if they do sometimes close accounts willy-nilly