Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem@hachyderm.io
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So, nationalise payment processing infrastructure? Is that what we're saying?

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UK friends! Payment processors have recently been attacking legal adult and especially LGBT content by threatening to withdraw service from platforms that don't remove it: I've created a parliamentary petition to make the case against this. Payment processing is privately owned infrastructure - it should have no say in what we can & can't buy or pay for. If you're based in the UK, or a British citizen, please sign here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/734441 Boosts extremely welcome, please share widely!

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@thisismissemEmelia 👸🏻 I'd need to think more on what an ideal model would look like - some sort of internationally governed model or a regulated set of mutual-governed public interest institutions might work better than a conventional/old-school nationalisation... but I think it's clear enough that payment processing is infrastructural and needs to be treated as that, not as a business one can just opt out of using. Ensuring businesses can't just arbitrarily choke off service would be a good first step.

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