Definitely, but that wasn't the question. For instance, I wouldn't expect UnionPay to allow me to fund pro-democracy organizations. I similarly wouldn't expect Visa and MasterCard to allow me to buy drugs legal in Canada or Portugal.
These are again, very much, social and not technological problems that require cryptocurrency.
In Canada for instance, you can easily get a merchant account with Moneris (a Canadian payment processor) and take card transactions over Interac (the Canadian debit network). Yeah, Square's bound by their US banks, because they're a US company with an overwhelmingly US product being sold internationally.
> I similarly wouldn't expect Visa and MasterCard to allow me to buy drugs legal in Canada
Ironically the government here in Ontario will sell you marijuana by mail and they accept Visa and Mastercard! The rules must be very vague and inconsistent.
These are again, very much, social and not technological problems that require cryptocurrency.
In Canada for instance, you can easily get a merchant account with Moneris (a Canadian payment processor) and take card transactions over Interac (the Canadian debit network). Yeah, Square's bound by their US banks, because they're a US company with an overwhelmingly US product being sold internationally.