[HeyItsMatt]

Nothing to do with transaction risk. Congress and the executive branch have a myriad of ways to harm a large business if they don't get what they want.

Visa's issues with religious fundamentalists started in the Tipper Gore days. During the Bush presidency it was nearly impossible for a porn site to get a US payment processor.

[revscat]

I meant “universal” as in “every government”, not as on “all across America.”

Every government does this.