- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
It would be awesome if Canada could do this.
“Every time a European taps a card, pays online or splits a bill with friends, the transaction flows through infrastructure owned and operated by American companies.”



Skip WAS Canadian. Founded in 2012, purchased by UK JustEat 2014, JustEat was purchased/merged with takeaway.com(Dutch) in 2020 to form JustEat Takeaway… which is in turn a subsidiary of Prosus(Dutch) which is again in turn owned by South African VC/publishing/media giant Naspers. Naspers was known as Die Nasional Pers until 1998. DNP started as a publishing company, was a major donor to National Party in support of the Apartheid state, an NP may have held significant shares of DNP. Naspers has never acknowledged their connections to apartheid, let alone apologised. Though 127 employees submitted personal statements of apology to the Truth and Reconciliation Committee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naspers
I’m not saying we shouldn’t push companies operating in Canada to use Canadian payment infrastructure. I’m saying that we should also be pushing the government to enact stricter foreign ownership laws. So much of Canadian Big Business™ is actually, when you follow the money, American or some other global bigdick-VC…and they’re almost always really horrible.