Reading comprehension is important and must be developed and tended like a garden.

> The biggest problems are loss of autonomy, privacy, and redundancy. Whole life dependent on G and A corps? Accounts that can be banned on a whim with no recourse? No thank you. ((extends middle finger))

This all applies to credit card companies. Try running a porn site and accepting payments with credit cards

I'm not okay with that either. (Although PCI DSS and banking regulations do present a limit to their potential shenanigans.)

A secondary in any case, as issues have well-developed remediation strategies. Few regular folks are banned from the financial system without recourse.

I get it. You wanted to be edgy and shoot from the hip, but this time pulled the trigger too fast.

> secondary in any case, as issues have well-developed remediation strategies. Few regular folks are banned from the financial system without recourse.

Here is where you are wrong

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/banks-keeping-closer-tab-repu...

Try running a perfectly legal porn website or anything controversial and try getting a merchant account.

I had a friend who ran party buses that catered to the LGBT community and had a hard time getting a merchant account while others in her same industry didn’t have a problem.

Digress much, to your favored point that affects not even 1% of the population?

Yes and the number of college students in the United States who don’t want to use a smart phone affects how many people?

Everyone is going to be affected by the growing requirements to have a smartphone. Don’t want to be in bed with G/Apple? Battery dead? S.O.L.

Try going to a big name concert without one—can’t be done thanks to Ticketmaster.

92% of the US population has smartphones.

A quick Google search shows that even 94% of the homeless have a cell phone.