[splaytreemap]

The fact that there are only two significant payment processors, and they act in lockstep to deny service to minority groups is a way bigger monopoly threat than Facebook owning both Instagram and WhatsApp. How Visa and MasterCard have escaped anti-trust scrutiny is beyond me.

[webinvest]

Because American Express and Discover is lumped in there too? What happened to all of the other payment processors?

[digianarchist]

It’s precisely because there are two of them that they escape anti-trust lawsuits.