Visa, Mastercard suspend operations in Russia over Ukraine invasion

This is continuation of an alarming new trend of politicization of payment processing. Cancelling credit cards of “people we don’t like” shows that cashless society will be much more repressive. More so, even this move is morally dubious, as what every day Russian has to do with Putin’s invasion? It isn’t like Russia had free elections and they voted for the guy.

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