Collective Shout, a small but vocal lobby group, has long called for a mandatory internet filter that would prevent access to adult content for everyone in Australia. Its director, Melinda Tankard Reist, was recently appointed to the stakeholder advisory board for the government’s age assurance technology trial before the under-16s social media ban comes into effect in Australia in December.
The Mastercard/Visa monopoly (or duopoly) is bad for consumers. It should be broken up.
We should hope digital euro breaks this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_euro
And hypothetically if it won’t get broken up because the government works for them and not for us, then we can break the monopoly ourselves.
Discover was just acquired by Capital One, so one less viable competitor too.