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VISA, Mastercard and SWIFT have damaged their own brands by showing themselves not be neutral but controlled politically. By not being neutral, it shows they cannot be trusted and dependable for all users.

Other entities will arise that are neutral around the world and will replace VISA, mastercard and SWIFT.

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> VISA, MasterCard and SWIFT have damaged their own brands...

Do you honestly think anyone outside HN and other very tech heavy crowds knows about this? Do you think they'd care?

If this has done anything (and I kind of doubt it) I would say it's helped them politicaly a little tiny bit.

Indeed. The only other political action by VISA and MasterCard I remember is them blocking payments to Wikileaks, for which they were rightfully subjected to a global DDoS attack.

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