The personal ad site Backpage has just had its payment processing terminated by both Visa and Mastercard, following termination by American Express last year. This week, a few phone calls from Chicago-area bureaucrats were enough to get Backpage officially sanctioned by nearly the entire banking establishment.
Rainey Reitman, activism director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote: "We shouldn’t have informal pressure from public officials forcing financial service companies into deciding which types of speech should […]
